Mari

Mari, a character in Dirty Little Secrets, is one of your Downstreet neighbors. She is first seen in Chapter 2, although her name isn't revealed until Chapter 3.

Appearance
Mari has long wavy red hair, gray eyes, and light skin. She wears glasses, a light blue top with blue patterns, white pants, and a white and golden bracelet on her left hand.

Personality
Mari is a kleptomaniac. She is defensive when confronted about it, but eager to smugly show off what she stole to anyone who doesn't know it was stolen. Given how quickly and easily she comes up with stories to cover her theft, she is clearly comfortable with lying.

Background
Mari seems to have a good reputation among her neighbors. She makes a "five-star" green bean casserole for the Fourth of July potluck every year, which the neighborhood always looks forward to. She is asked for the recipe often enough to have a long-standing joke about her recipes being buried with her.

Dirty Little Secrets

 * Chapter 2: Comfort From a Stranger
 * Chapter 3: Potluck of Secrets
 * Chapter 4: A Date with Danger (Mentioned; Determinant)
 * Chapter 8: F is for Philanthropy
 * Chapter 9: War of the Car Washes
 * Chapter 10: Sweet Sadie-Anne
 * Chapter 11: On The Outs
 * Chapter 13: Detective Lawson
 * Chapter 14: Happy Kitchen, Happy Life

Your Character
Along with the rest of the neighborhood, Mari gathers outside your house following Valerie's death. She initially assumed it was your death, but upon learning it was Valerie's and the circumstances surrounding it, she immediately begins speculating that this was a murder. She seems nervous to see you at the potluck, and you later see her stealing a pearl bracelet from an Upstreeter's house. You can choose to listen in while her husband confronts her for resuming her habit of thievery, which she had apparently paused after getting caught by Valerie. Though she is defensive and argumentative with her husband to his face, you see her struggling not to cry after he leaves. If you ask why her husband was upset, she easily lies that the food didn't agree with him. If you compliment the stolen bracelet, she preens and claims it was an anniversary gift from her husband.

In Chapter 14, you discover that Mari has been lying about her cooking and baking prowess. She buys pre-made baked goods or box mixes and passes them off as her own. From this, you deduce that she couldn't have murdered Valerie because she couldn't have hid poison in one of her culinary creations. If you decide to look through the items she stolen, you find out that she tends to steal items that have sentimental value to the original owners.

Valerie Wright
If you choose to snoop on Mari, you learn that Valerie once caught her trying to sneak a cake mixer out of her kitchen. Valerie's threat to go to the police precipitated Mari's promise to her husband that she'd stop stealing. Now that Valerie has died, however, Mari thinks there's no longer any need to worry about the police.

Trivia

 * Her character model resembles a version of Laura from Rising Tides.
 * Her crimes include theft. In Chapter 14, it's revealed that she only steals things that have sentimental value because she's jealous of her neighbors having loving families.
 * In Chapter 14, it's revealed that she has never cooked or baked anything despite her reputation.