Claire Koneff Deluth (Christine Dunford) is the hidden main villainess from Rizzoli & Isles' third season finale, "No More Drama in My Life" (airdate December 25, 2012). She is a community play director and the wife of city councilman Roger Deluth.
Roger was the owner of a concrete company who supplied the material to builder Sam Nelson, for construction of the Storrow center building. The company was actually in Claire's name, and it was under suspicion by Ryan, who was in charge of maintaining the building. Ryan learned that the Deluth's used recycled concrete in the building's construction, and was going to blow the whistle.
The villainous couple planned to silence Ryan, and as part of the plan, the evil Claire sabotaged a prop gun by filling it full of ball bearings, with the gun being used in a play featuring Ryan and his girlfriend, Jennifer Johnson. As shown in the beginning of the episode, Jennifer's character found out about her husband (Ryan) having an affair and shoots him in a rage, but after Claire cuts the performance and gives her critique, Jennifer discovered that Ryan was actually dead, unaware that Claire's villainous sabotage killed him.
The Deluth's cost cutting ended up later endangering the lives of Barry Frost, Tommy Rizzoli (one of Jane's brothers), and his son Tommy Jr., as the building collapsed on top of them. During the process of saving the three of them (which was successful), Claire's reveal occurred when Jane discovered that she and Roger owned the building, and following this, Jane confronted the villainess, stating that Ryan came to her for help because she was married to a councilman, only for Claire to kill him instead. Claire confessed to everything, stating that she and Roger underbid the project and claiming that they didn't expect a collapse to happen. After her confession, both she and Roger were arrested.
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- Christine Dunford also played villainess Nicole Guzman on Crossing Jordan.
- Claire Koneff Deluth shares similarities with Elementary villainess Christa Pullman, as both were part of villainous couples who were engaged in illegal activities, and both women also murdered people who went to them for help exposing the wrongdoings (with each victim unaware of the wife's heel persona). One small difference is that Christa directly killed her victim, Claire committed sabotage that led to a murder directly committed by someone else.