Gwendolyn "Gwen" Chapel is a little girl who had cancer and someone Nicole Wallace had come to care about. Prior to her meeting Nicole, her father Evan and her uncle Larry killed her mother Monica by sabotaging the water heater, which cause the carbon dioxide leakage in the house, while Monica was sleeping and Evan and Gwen were away to visit a boarding school and they were planning to kill her for the insurance money, which was worth five million dollars.
History[]
Gwen is first seen talking with the gravestone of her mother. Her uncle Larry and her father Evan stood with her. Later, she learned through her stepmother-to-be Nicole Wallace that her uncle had a drug problem. When her father tried to kill her by giving her high doses of estrogen in her lotion, so it can create tumors that would kill her, Nicole saved her by sniffing her lotion, after drying Gwen's hair with a hand towel and after her father was arrested for his part in her mother's murder and her attempted murder. Nicole kidnapped Gwen, after Robert Goren told Nicole that Gwen would never be safe with her, but, in a rare moment of conscience after the advice was given to her by Goren, Nicole decide to leave her in the care of her aunt at her aunt's house in Arizona. (CI: "Grow")
Detectives Goren and Eames later visited Gwen when Nicole killed Goren's brother and then sent her and Goren a bouquet of flowers. The detectives discover that she is dying of cancer and Goren theorizes that this was the trigger that caused Nicole to kill again. (CI: "Frame")