| “ | Larry might have been a bottom feeder, but not me. He owed me. | „ |
| ~ Jenna's rationalization for having her husband killed. |
Jenna Kealey is the main antagonist of the Law & Order episode "Renunciation". She is a prep school teacher who manipulates her student and lover Roy Pack into killing her husband.
She was portrayed by Ashley Crow.
Early life[]
Jenna was married to Larry Kealey, a former athlete with a gambling problem. When his debts threatened to bankrupt them, Jenna started planning to have him killed so she could collect on his life insurance policy. To that end, she started an affair with Roy Pack, a 16-year-old student at the prep school where she taught math, and she told him that Larry was abusing her and ruining her life to make him angry enough to kill.
Larry eventually caught them in bed together and threatened to divorce Jenna, which would have ruined her financially. She hired Larry's bookie, David Kaufer, to pretend to be a hitman and take $2,000 from her and Pack, only to back out of the "deal". As intended, this made Pack so angry that he took matters into his own hands - he took his father's car and ran Larry over outside the apartment he and Jenna shared, killing him.
"Renunciation"[]
When NYPD Homicide Detectives Phil Cerreta and Mike Logan inform Jenna of her husband's death, she feigns grief. When the detectives discover that she had used the life insurance payout to buy her apartment the following day, however, they begin to suspect her of having Larry killed. They arrest Roy after finding Larry's blood on his father's car, and he says that the murder was Jenna's idea.
Jenna admits to having a relationship with Pack and going to Kaufer to have Larry killed, but she claims to have changed her mind and cancelled the hit. She also claims to have ended her relationship with Pack, and that he became obsessed with her. Kaufer corroborates her story by saying he scammed the pair to collect money Larry owed for a bet on the NFL and MLB playoffs, thus making it appear as if Roy had acted alone.
Assistant District Attorney Paul Robinette investigates Jenna's story and finds out that Kaufer had been in jail during the playoffs, and that Larry had in fact bet on the Stanley Cup Finals. Robinette and Executive Assistant District Attorney Ben Stone threaten to charge Kaufer as a co-conspirator in Larry's murder unless he tells them the truth, scaring him into admitting that he and Jenna faked the agreement to have Larry killed as part of Jenna's plan to spur Pack into killing him. Stone and Robinette then charge her with Larry's murder, and Logan arrests her as she sits in the courtroom, waiting for Pack's trial to start. She is then imprisoned for life.
External links[]
- Jenna Kealey on the Law & Order Wiki
