Peggy Buxton

Peggy Buxton was one of the suspects and the killer of her son, Hank Buxton, in The Scent of Death (Case #44).

Profile
Peggy is a 80-year-old gray-haired woman with blue eyes concealed behind her red glasses. Peggy wears a purple dress, aqua earrings, and two necklaces. It is known she has manicured hands, wears pantyhose, and uses hair removal cream.

Role in Case(s)
Peggy was called into the investigation after the team found the will of Hank Buxton. Peggy was interrogated a second time after it was notated that she would be at Georgi's drag show, prompting the team to talk to Peggy before the drag show started.

At the climax of the investigation, it was Peggy who slew her son. Before she was sent to court, Peggy claims she has the best lawyers in the city, but the amount of evidence was not enough to save her from prison. Judge Hall made it clear that either Peggy talks or she issues an automatic life imprisonment. Peggy stated that she and Hank hated each other but she hated Kerry Ann, his wife, wholeheartedly. Peggy told Hank she would bestow her fortune to him on the condition that he divorces and disinherits Kerry Ann as well as letting Peggy stay in the mansion until her death. But Hank was acting behind her back to lock her up in an institute for senile people. When she discovered that, she decided to make him pay for every time he had disrespected her. She smashed his head with a flower pot and throttled him. She lured Georgi into helping her carry Hank's dead body by making him believe that the victim was merely drunk.

Whether or not Peggy took a stand did not change Judge Hall's decision to sentence Peggy to life in jail.

Trivia

 * Back in Dog Eat Dog, Margaret Littlewood's indictment in the court proved that "evil has no age". As the second oldest killer in the game (at 80 years of age), Peggy's indictment also proves that evil is ageless.