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.Mary Kay Adams (November 1992 to November 1993)

killed in May 1993 when one of her brother Royce's alternate .personalities, Roger, shoved Neal into the fireplace mantel where she hit her head. She was seen in flashbacks until November 1993, when Roger's other alternate personality, Dooley, admitted on the witness stand what Roger had done.

Graphic Artist at WorldWide

At time of death, a penthouse apartment at the Lakeview

Single/Divorced (at time of death)

Michael Alcott (divorced; deceased)

George Keller (Father; deceased)
Gloria Walters Keller (Mother; deceased)
Lucinda Walsh (Half-Sister)
Samantha Markham Anderson (Sister)
Sierra Esteban Montgomery Drake (Niece)
Georgia Tucker Silva (Niece)
Lily Walsh Snyder (Adoptive Niece)
Bianca Marquez Walsh (Adoptive Niece)
Bryant Montgomery (Great nephew; deceased)
Lucinda Marie Montgomery (Great Niece)
Luke Snyder (Great nephew)
Faith Snyder (Great niece)
Natalie Snyder (Great niece)
Ethan Walsh Snyder (Great nephew)

None

Scott Eldridge (engaged)

Withheld the truth of who she really was while working for Lucinda Walsh. (November 1992 - May 1993)

From February 1993. Neal's brother, Royce, is upset that Neal's ex-husband has come to town and there's danger of their secret being revealed.:

"ROYCE .... Don't you think it's time to be honest about everything."

Although a newcomer to Oakdale in November 1992, Neal Alcott's ties ran deeper than anyone initially suspected. Neal was bright, funny, articulate and well liked by just about everyone upon her arrival. She began working for Lucinda Walsh, as her company WorldWide's new Graphic Artist, shortly before the arrival in town of award-winning architect, Royce Keller. Royce was brought to Oakdale by Lucinda to design the new WorldWide Tower. Naturally, Neal and Royce arriving in Oakdale at approximately the same time was no mere coincidence. They were keeping the secret that they were Lucinda's estranged half-brother and half-sister!

Royce and Neal felt that their futures were bright in Oakdale. Neal began a romance with Scott Eldridge, Lisa Mitchell's son. And Royce started seeing Emily Stewart. Neal and Lucinda were becoming great friends. In fact, they were growing so close that Neal desperately wanted to tell Lucinda about the true nature of their relationship (especially around the holidays and shortly thereafter.) However, Royce was adamantly against it and continually talked Neal into waiting. Unfortunately, before Neal could do that both Royce and Neal's past romantic lives would intrude into their current romances with Scott and Emily respectively and ultimately Lucinda would not know until after Neal's untimely death that Neal was her sister.

Emily had started working on an account while working at Lucinda's former company, Walsh Enterprises (now being run by Lucinda's stepchildren, Connor and Evan Walsh), with for of all people, Lucinda's new son-in-law, Damian Grimaldi. Damian Grimaldi ran his family's company, Kingsley-Malta and his new wife, Lucinda's adopted daughter, Lily Walsh Grimaldi had convinced her husband to move the company headquarters to Oakdale from Malta (the original owner of the Kingsley cosmetics division, Patricia Kingsley also influenced Damian's decision.) Damian set up a contest between Emily and Lucinda's longtime right hand man, Kirk Anderson (who was at loggerheads with WorldWide's new attorney, Scott), as to who would handle the Kingsley-Malta account in Oakdale and Emily won the contest. Unfortunately this put Royce Keller uncomfortably in the middle, since Royce was still working on the construction design for WorldWide's new building. As if things weren't bad enough, Royce became a bit verbally abusive to Emily over the situation with Kingsley-Malta. Then Royce's former fiancee, Cynthia Linders showed up in town and started pulling Emily aside at Lisa's restaurant the Mona Lisa, telling Emily that Royce in their relationship was much more than verbally abusive, but was also physically abusive. Royce tried to reassure Emily that Cynthia was overblowing the nature of their relationship, but than one evening Emily would get a call from Cynthia to come over to her suite at the Lakeview and Cynthia dropped the bombshell on Emily that she and Royce were still engaged. Emily then told Royce that they were over (but only temporarily, she forgave him a short time later.) When Royce went over to Cynthia's suite he got angry, but Cynthia stood her ground and told Royce that the engagement was off and threw her engagement ring at him. Cynthia then left town. In the midst of all this, Neal stood up to some of the barbs Lucinda gave out about Royce, especially since he was doing what she considered justice to one of Lucinda's past adversaries, Emily. Neal's defense of Royce, confused Lucinda royally and Lucinda hired a private investigator to investigate both Royce and Neal.

Meanwhile, Neal started having problems of her own. Neal's ex-husband, Michael Alcott, arrived. Michael, knowing the truth about their identities, blackmailed Royce into giving him a job. (This made Royce even more angry then he already was, which further confused Emily.) Royce and his loyal butler, Mr. Grey, vowed to kill Michael before giving Michael anything else. Neal ended up cooling things with Scott, not knowing what Michael would attempt next and Emily remained loyal to Royce, although the relationship had originally cooled after the Cynthia Linders incident. Next thing you know, in late April 1993, Michael fell to his death in a construction site accident (it was ruled by Oakdale's coroner as an accident.)

After Michael's "accidental" death, Neal started letting Scott more back into her life. In the meantime, Michael's sister, Rebecca, came to Oakdale and insinuated to Scott that an inquest needed to be started into Michael's death (which she didn't believe was a suicide) and this raised Scott's suspicions even more. But Scott was still confused about why Neal's ex-husband would cause her to cool things for a while. Scott also saw Neal with Royce, quite a bit, and got suspicious that one of two things might be happening: 1. Royce and Neal were lovers. or 2. Neal was a spy for Walsh Enterprises. or 3. Both. Always looking for a way to get in good with boss lady, Lucinda, Scott thought it might be an opportunity for him to move ahead if he found out there was a link of some kind between Royce and Neal. (Scott hoped that Neal was just a spy, since he didn't want to necessarily not be in a romance with Neal.)

Then one dark and stormy night in late May 1993, Scott thought he got proof of Neal and Royce being lovers, when he overheard Royce's voice on Neal's answering machine. Scott demanded to know what was going on. Neal confessed that she and Royce were Lucinda's sister and brother. Scott was furious over the deception, feeling he was now in the middle between Neal and Royce's deception and his boss, Lucinda, and then accused Neal of being involved with Michael's death. Scott stormed out leaving Neal devastated. The next morning, one of Neal's friends, Scott's cop sister-in-law, Margo Montgomery Hughes, found Neal murdered -- Neal's head bashed against the fireplace mantel! That same night, Rebecca would leave town. Although a suspect, the investigation would go in another direction.

Shortly thereafter Scott's brother, Tom (and Margo's husband) and Lisa, helped Scott (unwittingly of course) skip town. Margo was furious for a while at Tom and Lisa, because Scott, Royce and Mr. Grey were amongst the suspects. (Royce had convinced Emily to go away, to the Grimaldi estate in Malta,, on the Amalfi coast, for a while, with Mr. Grey in tow.) One of Neal's nosy neighbors had seen Scott and Royce both leave her apartment the night of the murder, with her overhearing Scott get especially loud.

When Royce and Emily arrived back in town a few weeks later (in August 1993), Emily was shocked to see Royce be arrested for Neal's murder. (Margo had found the evidence was pointing more and more to Royce being the murderer.) But Emily had more reason to be shocked to see Royce being arrested for the murder, because while they were a way in Malta, Royce confessed to Emily that he and Neal were siblings. Of course Royce left out the part that Lucinda, Emily's enemy, was he and Neal's half-sister. Emily stood by her man, as Royce was put on trial (even hiring a top notch defense attorney named, Sam Hayden) and was convinced that something wasn't quite right about Royce being Neal's murderer.

Meanwhile, Lucinda's investigator uncovered a shocking secret (at least for her), Royce and Neal were the children that her birth mother, Gloria Keller had had after Lucinda was put up for adoption by her alcoholic stepfather, Royce and Neal's birth father (Gloria was pregnant with Royce when Lucinda's stepfather, Mr. Keller, sent her away.) When Lucinda went out of town, to her birthtown in Michigan, to investigate further what had happened after her alcoholic stepfather had sent her away, she discovered that Royce and Neal's life was not easy growing up. Their parents were very abusive with Royce often taking the majority of the abuse.

When Lucinda returned to Oakdale and decided, at first, to keep what she knew about Royce and Neal a secret. Mainly she didn't want Emily to know what information she now knew, besides she was devastated that she never got to know Neal as her sister, but didn't want the same thing to happen to her brother. Lucinda hired a top notch psychiatrist, named Dr. Brad Wyndham (without Royce and Emily knowing who was funding Dr. Wyndham; although Emily did investigate) to help Royce remember what happened the night of Neal's murder, sure that Royce had to be innocent of murdering their younger sister. Dr. Wyndham tried to clue in to Lucinda that there was more about Royce than met the eye, but Lucinda refused to listen as the prosecutor in the case, Jessica Griffin McKechnie, started to become more adamant in her prosecution of Royce (all the physical evidence pointed to Royce definitely being Neal's murderer.)

On the day that Jessica was to question Royce, Lucinda felt assured that Royce would be found not-guilty, even if Dr. Wyndham tried to warn her that she was in for an even more shocking bigger surprise (Lucinda thought Emily was to be in for the bigger surprise when she learned that Royce was Lucinda's half-brother.) On the witness stand, Royce broke down and it was like he became another person (literally), actually he became two different people (confusing not only Lucinda, Emily, Dr. Wyndham, Sam Hayden and Jessica, but everyone in the courtroom.) Royce literally became a little kid, calling himself, Dooley. Dooley apparently was one of Royce's two other personalities (this was the shock the psychiatrist tried to warn Lucinda about.) Dooley tried to get out, but in a definite child-like way (approximately about 5 years old), what he witnessed the night of Neal's murder. But another personality was about to emerge (obviously to everyone in the courtroom, Royce suffered from multiple personality disorder from the abuse he suffered from when he was a child.) This other personality was named, Roger, and Roger tried to yell down Dooley not to tell anyone what happened. For a few tense moments, it looked like Roger was going to have Royce and Dooley totally shut down. Luckily Dr. Wyndham got Dooley to be in control of the body (although not without some periods of lucidity for the personality named Roger.) Dooley told the court that the night of Neal's murder, Royce had seen Scott Eldridge leave Neal's apartment in a very angry mood. Neal at first cried to Royce about what happened between she and Scott and the very angry confrontation between the two of them. Neal then tried to convince Royce that it was time for them to go to Lucinda and all of Oakdale and tell them the truth about she and Royce being Lucinda's half-siblings. But then Roger emerged and Roger was furious that Neal would think about doing something like that. Neal apparently was aware of the Roger personality (although, she didn't apparently know about Dooley, who was apparently the childlike protector for Royce.) Neal tried to get Roger to let Royce come back, but Roger refused and Roger then shoved Neal into the fireplace mantel where she hit her head and died. Royce was found not guilty because of insanity and eventually Dr. Wyndham succeeded in getting the personalities merged into one.

Emily temporarily became horrified that her beau was her enemy's half-brother, but after Royce was healed, he convinced Emily that it shouldn't matter and they took a romantic late winter 1994 trip back to Malta. Unfortunately, Mr. Grey put doubts in the newly healed Royce's head about Emily being the right person for Royce to get married to (Lucinda was even becoming convinced that Emily might not be that bad for her half-brother to be married to.) And ironically on their Valentine's Day 1994, wedding, it wasn't Emily that said, "I don't", it was Royce (Lucinda was actually secretly overjoyed at this turn of events.) Unfortunately for Lucinda, Royce didn't stay in town to much longer after this, and Lucinda didn't get much time to be with her newly healed half-brother (but she treasured the time that she did.) Ironically though, a little while later, Lucinda and Royce would get even more of a shock when it was revealed that newly arrived in town international jewel and art thief and art forgerer, Samantha Markham was Royce's long lost twin sister.

Neal's stay in Oakdale proved to be a short and ultimately fatal one, but her relationship with Lucinda still resonates into recent events in town. As it proved to be a major motivation for Lucinda taking in adopted daughter Lily's recently found twin sister, Rose.