The jealousy Marlene Postell Johnson felt was all consuming. that she was wrong.
Nothing anyone said to her would persuade her that she was wrong.
Marlene believed that her husband Ervin was having an affair with a woman at work – and it made her obsessively paranoid.
She stalked Shirley Goodnight Pierce, took photos of her home and even threatened her.
Marlene’s erratic behaviour would eventually spell the end of her marriage to Ervin – but not the end of her relentless campaign against Shirley.
If Marlene couldn’t have Ervin, then Shirley certainly wasn’t going to have him.
Marlene, 66, was married to Ervin, the chief financial officer and president of textile company, Tuscarora Yarns, in Mount Pleasant, South California.
Shirley Goodnight Pierce, 62, was one of Ervin’s work colleagues and the executive assistant toexecutive officer.
