Laraine Farrell was the wife of Mark Farrell and the daughter of Ned & Judith Worley. She was in a persistent vegetative state after a heart attack in a New York State Park in 1996. Prior to living in New York, she lived in New Orleans, Louisiana where she embezzled a large sum of money from a now defunct company. She secretly stashed it away in a trust fund. It was discovered by Detectives Robert Goren and Alexandra Eames in 2004 that the attack triggering her condition was deliberately caused by her husband.