Before lights out, she sees an empty cell assuming that Hanlon got his death sentence overturned. Before Hanlon goes to see the judge, they say their goodbyes.
Willing to help Hanlon, she tells him to go to the judge and say that both he and Schillinger killed Alexander Vogel together. Hanlon explains to her that Schillinger is the reason that he is on death row. When Bellinger sees Hanlon and Vernon Schillinger get into a growling match, she gets worried and asks Hanlon why the two men hate each other. Bellinger and Hanlon grew close, and she is even seen making a sweater for him. She asks for Hanlon to expose himself to her and she does not care if he is a homosexual. In the third season, Bellinger is joined by Richie Hanlon. When her pen pal turns out to be fellow inmate Simon Adebisi, she rejects him because he is black, sending him off with a racial slur. She also exchanges a series of pornographic letters with a "secret admirer" from within her cell block. Her Crime Flashback was the only one in the entire series not to have any narration from Augustus Hill. Gloria Nathan, Diane Whittlesey, Simon Adebisi, and Vernon Schillinger. During her time on Death Row, the regular characters that have made some sort of contact with her are Leo Glynn, Tim McManus, Sister Peter Marie, Father Ray Mukada, Dr. She is based on real life child murderer Susan Smith.Īlong with James Robson, Bellinger is one of two regulars that never lived in Emerald City. It is suggested that she has a strong Christian faith and is doing God's will.
She is very polite with everyone and hardly gets angry or swears, but has deep racist beliefs as evidenced by her having called Adebisi a racial slur once. While she keeps mostly to herself with a shy, charming demeanor, she shows some signs of psychological instability shortly after her arrival, she exposes herself to fellow prisoner Timmy Kirk, and essentially prostitutes herself to inmates and guards alike in return for preferential treatment. She swears it was an accident, but that it nevertheless "had to happen." Shirley Bellinger is the first and only woman to be incarcerated at Oswald, sentenced to die for murdering her daughter she drove her car into a lake with her daughter in the back seat then swam out as the car sank, leaving her daughter to drown.
Convicted DecemMurder in the first degree.