Marshall Goldman

Marshall Goldman is a newspaper columnist who appears interested in Abraham Simpson's stories that lead nowhere, such as the story about the time he sat on a shark. He wrote a column on him in the newspaper and made him a local celebrity. However, Homer found out that he was only doing this to make him a celebrity so that he could kill Abraham and publish a book about his life, which he had already written, in order to win the Pulitzer Prize. Homer reads the book to find that Abraham will die that day on the train. Homer runs to catch it and eventually, with Lenny and Carl's help, gets on and stops Goldman from killing him. Goldman had a pillow to suffocate him with, with a knife to rip this open and a gun inside it just in case. It turned out that Abraham was "playing possum" and knocked Goldman into the wall, to have a pile of hat boxes land on him.

It is unknown what happened to Goldman after this, whether he was arrested or escaped is unknown.