Beth Landow was a high school teacher and the victim in Mr. Monk Goes Back to School.
Biography[]
Beth was an English teacher at Ashton Preparatory High School and generally considered to be the most popular of all the staff, but was secretly embroiled in a sexual liaison with her colleague Derek Philby, a married man. While Derek saw the affair as nothing more than a purely phyisical fling, Beth was romantically interested in him and one night, after a make-out session in Philby's Auto mobile, demanded he divorce his wife in favor of her, threatening to make their relationship public if he didn't. Derek promises to make a decision by next morning and asks her to meet him on top of school's clock tower at 8.00 AM.
Beth complied and before her class started, she went to wait on the viewing deck for Derek. When he arrived, he snuck up on Beth and hit her with a wooden plank, then dragged her body down the stairs to position her on the clock's minute hand, which was horizontal at exactly 8:15 AM. Derek then ran back to his class to oversee the SAT tests and at 8:20 AM, Beth fell from the hand, landing directly on Derek's car, triggering its car alarm and alerting everyone on the school grounds, including the students in Derek's class, who would serve as witnesses to vouch for his alibi during Beth's death.
His plan would have went off without a hitch, had Beth not been seen by the school's custodian, who soon demanded money from Derek in return for his silence. This attempt at blackmail backfired on him, as Derek later orchestrated his death as well. Finally though, Derek, while carrying her corpse to the clock, didn't notice Beth's glasses sliding off and getting left inside the tower's interior for Monk to find, who uses this piece of evidence to lure him into a trap and arrest him for the murder.