Yay! I correctly identified both murderer and motive!
I suspected poohbear_nc right off the bat since there was no proof of the microwaved chicken's identity. And there was no "gift" in Pooh's stocking at the end.
Initially, I thought the murderer
could have been Ravenne, so once all the episodes were posted, I read the entire story again. She had an alibi for the last two murders since she was away from the house with Marc_liest and mtravellerh, so that left Pooh as my sole suspect.
It was fun to read the episodes each day, and I thought the story was very well written! Good job!