After years of trying to get the famed fictional character to the screen, producers have signed Angelina Jolie to play Kay Scarpetta. Scarpetta has been the heroine in 17 novels by Patricia Cornwell, who DC residents might remember as a former staffer for the Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia, who was revealed to be part of a love triangle, when FBI agent Eugene Bennett discovered his wife, Margo Bennett, was having an affair with Cornwell in 1996.
Eugene Bennett was sentenced to 23 years for attempted murder of his wife, and other charges related to abducting her minister and threatening to blow up his church.
