Homicide Profile: Melissa Leo
She kept us guessing.
Kay Harvey. Kay Harvey?
No. But, that’s what Melissa’s character’s name was at one point. Kay doesn’t exist in David Simon’s Homicide: Life on the Killing Streets. She’s a mash up of a detective named Bertina “Bert” Silver, a woman, and Rick Garvey, a guy who for a while had a 100% conviction streak - for about a year. Kay Howard topped that.
So, as an o…
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