Hetta Finestein

Finestein, Hetta - Retired Baker

Appeared in Naked in Death (c. February 13-22, 2058)

Personal Information

• Description: She had a quiet, old-fashioned, grandmotherly demeanor.
• Hair: White
• Eyes: Blue
• Address: Off Ninth Avenue, New York City, New York (Eve’s old apartment building)
• Relationships: Joseph Finestein (husband, deceased); unnamed lawyer grandson
• Occupation: Retired Baker

Description

• She had tiny white hands, rosy cheeks, soft blue eyes, and smiled gently at Eve (she had a quiet smile).
• Her face was beginning to line despite antiaging creams and treatments.She had bustling movements.

Personality

• Eve remembered the Finesteins as quiet, friendly, television addicts.

Homicide Information

• Hetta said gluttony killed her husband as she told him not to eat the pie.
• She baked a custard pie with a synthetic cyanide compound, with extra sugar, and told her husband not to touch it. He ate it anyway and it killed him.

Interesting Facts

• Mr. Hennessy, one of the neighbors, told Dallas there had been trouble down in the Finestein apartment; that Joseph was found dead in the kitchen. Hetta told Joe she baked the pie for Mrs. Hennessy, across the hall.
• She said she had been out playing her weekly game of mah-jongg and found Joe dead in the kitchen.
• Up until a few years ago, they ran a bakery. Hetta still liked to bake and said she had quite a hand with pies and cakes.
• "The woman [who] could bake a poisoned pie, but couldn’t control her own television..."
• Joe was Hetta’s second husband; they would have been married fifty years come April. She said he had become difficult to live with and, as an example, said he had eaten half of the Tower of Pleasure Cake she’d baked for the International Betty Crocker cook-off. Then he told her it was dry.