Who is Missy Murphy in the novel, Along Came a Spider?

Missy Murphy is the wife of Gary Murphy. Missy has no idea about her husband's other personality and believes he is simply an intelligent man who is too smart to hold down a normal job like everyone else. Missy puts up with Gary's inability to keep a job because she loves him and believes he loves her too. However, when Gary messes up a job with her brother, things become tense between them. It is soon after this that the police barge in on Missy's daughter's birthday party in order to arrest Gary, accusing him of kidnapping two children in Washington, D.C., a crime that Missy has trouble believing that her husband could have committed. Missy remains at her husband's side, attending the trial and finding herself devastated when he is convicted.