How do you think Corinne's death was explained to police? A bunch of witnesses saw mother and daughter fighting.
Why not stick around and tell the cops what had happened?
Better than killing Corinne, imagine if the kids called the cops and she (after thinking she would live a life of luxury) went to prison instead.
The ending that is in the finished film is not the original ending and was hastily written by someone who had never read the novel and had no involvement in the film's original production, so I doubt he even stopped to think about that. Corrine didn't die until the third book in the series, and that's why the original screenwriter and director, Jeffrey Bloom, refused to make an ending where Corrine would die, he knew it would upset fans of the novel, which is one of the reasons he walked off the film and had no part of the final edit. The original cut didn't test well, and the test audience disliked the original ending (which did involve the kids exposing her mother at the wedding, but Corrine did live in Bloom's original ending), so the studio decided that the audience would want Corrine to die. While you can argue that Corrine deserved that ending, there are problems with it and rightly, angered a lot of fans.
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