Your character is a science writer

A message to our new actor, Nick, for his first scenes.

hey. have thought about it all day, and think it's the way to go: your character is a science writer (forensic psychology) who wants specifically to write a major article on Indigo Milazzo for (whatever your fave rag is). she refuses to grant you an interview. so it's been decided that your article, other than research of the trial transcript, newspaper clippings and a face-to-face interview with the lead investigating officer, will explore why a woman says she killed her husband for tearing down her great-great grandmother's house, RATHER than for him telling her on their wedding night that he had mistress and 3 children whom he supported and visited regularly the same way he would with a real wife & family.

the ancestor (Flavia Milazzo) was a mysterious, dark woman with lots of cash, a baby and no husband, who said she was Sicilian when she showed up in the late 1800's in a small nothing of a settlement in Western Nebraska near the Wyoming border. she started a highly successful ranching empire and the settlement became a thriving town named after her. Indigo was in the process of getting the ancestor's house heritage, protected status by the state at the time she got married. her husband was a lot older than her and after being her father's protege, when her parents were killed in a plane crash, he took her under his wing and courted her.

all of the ancestor's descendants were male children until Indigo was born. i don't know how many old world Sicilians you've seen, but one of my old friend's mother from Catania was darker than i am. so the Milazzo men have always married the whitest possible women so the children wouldn't turn out dark. i think Flavia was probably Creole - nobody in western Nebraska would have known the difference and the lady's cash probably had a bleaching effect. i play her ghost and i think she has a deep Faulknerian secret. 

you can run with this however you like.