# Cheating Wife Sends Fake Burgler to Scare Husband, Who Cuts Burgler's Throat **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 14, 2013, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheating-wife-sends-fake-burgler-to-scare-husband-who-cuts-burglers-throat/647134 "2013-01-14T04:48:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheating-wife-sends-fake-burgler-to-scare-husband-who-cuts-burglers-throat/647134/1 "2013-01-14T04:48:16Z")
How [soap-operaish](http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Adultery-plot-ends-in-murder-police-say-4180519.php#ixzz2HiiV9lMj). They’d decided to separate after he caught her cheating, she felt that he wasn’t moving out of the apartment fast enough and came up with the _brilliant_ idea of arranging a fake burglary to scare him off. What could go wrong? > [@](#): > > Taijeron hatched a plan to stage a burglary, hoping to scare her husband into leaving, police said. She gave a key to a group of men and sent them to the couple’s apartment, Raman said. > > When one of them, Robert Lindsey, 49, confronted the husband with a fake gun, the husband grabbed a knife and slashed Lindsey’s neck, Raman said. > > The husband won’t face charges, police said. Well; _that_ could go wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheating-wife-sends-fake-burgler-to-scare-husband-who-cuts-burglers-throat/647134/2 "2013-01-14T04:49:35Z")
Never bring a fake gun to a knife fight. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheating-wife-sends-fake-burgler-to-scare-husband-who-cuts-burglers-throat/647134/3 "2013-01-14T04:49:49Z")
Lucy! You got some 'splainin to do! ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheating-wife-sends-fake-burgler-to-scare-husband-who-cuts-burglers-throat/647134/4 "2013-01-14T04:50:23Z")
Oh, good, we have a plot for the sequel to [I Love You To Death.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099819/) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheating-wife-sends-fake-burgler-to-scare-husband-who-cuts-burglers-throat/647134/5 "2013-01-14T04:50:44Z")
I guess he won’t have to worry about moving out. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheating-wife-sends-fake-burgler-to-scare-husband-who-cuts-burglers-throat/647134/6 "2013-01-14T04:53:03Z")
Wow, that is messed up ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheating-wife-sends-fake-burgler-to-scare-husband-who-cuts-burglers-throat/647134/7 "2013-01-14T05:01:15Z")
I hate when that happens to me. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheating-wife-sends-fake-burgler-to-scare-husband-who-cuts-burglers-throat/647134/8 "2013-01-14T05:01:28Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > Lucy! You got some 'splainin to do! It’s like they were TV characters whom someone switched genres on midstream without warning; they thought they were still in a sitcom performing Wacky Hijinks, and walked right into a True Crime show. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheating-wife-sends-fake-burgler-to-scare-husband-who-cuts-burglers-throat/647134/9 "2013-01-14T05:02:59Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > I guess he won’t have to worry about moving out. Naw, she could make bail. It’s only… dang. Maybe he should consider redecorating. ---
**Author:** ![Sevencl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sevencl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevencl)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheating-wife-sends-fake-burgler-to-scare-husband-who-cuts-burglers-throat/647134/10 "2013-01-14T05:04:40Z")
Wow, takes guts to go for a knife with a gun in your face. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheating-wife-sends-fake-burgler-to-scare-husband-who-cuts-burglers-throat/647134/11 "2013-01-14T06:38:29Z")
And this is exactly why all fake burglars need to have real guns. No wait a second. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheating-wife-sends-fake-burgler-to-scare-husband-who-cuts-burglers-throat/647134/12 "2013-01-14T06:44:37Z")
How bizarre. There’s no limit to stupid in this world. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheating-wife-sends-fake-burgler-to-scare-husband-who-cuts-burglers-throat/647134/13 "2013-01-14T09:55:44Z")
So they could, and did, arrest the wife and the surviving accomplices, who might all be charged with murder. > [@The same article linked in the OP](#): > > Taijeron; her new boyfriend, Matt Parker, 22; his brother Charles Parker, 21; and Jimmy Salgado, 21, were booked on suspicion of murder. They are being held at Contra Costa County Jail in Martinez in lieu of $1 million bail apiece. > > Prosecutors could charge the four with murder under the state’s provocative-act doctrine, which holds accomplices responsible when a crime partner acts in a way that leads to death. Is there a debate to be had here, over what crime they should be charged with? Somehow it seems wrong to charge someone with murder, who didn’t, you know, actually commit the murder. But they ought to be charged with _something nasty._ Should there be a special crime for that (perhaps just a bit less serious than murder)? This reminds me of a case I recall reading about some years ago. A bank robber held up a bank at gun-point. The cops arrived just as he was escaping (IIRC), and shot and killed the robber. Then the cops (having some reason to believe that the robber had planned the robbery with his wife, although the wife wasn’t present at the scene), went to the robber’s home and arrested the wife. They charged her with murder in the death of her husband, even though he was actually shot by the police. Should that have warranted a murder charge? (Sorry, I have no idea how that case played out.) ETA: So. SHE cheated, and they decided to call it splitsville, but HE has to move out? :dubious: Why shouldn’t SHE have to move out? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheating-wife-sends-fake-burgler-to-scare-husband-who-cuts-burglers-throat/647134/14 "2013-01-14T10:11:48Z")
The felony murder doctrine is not particularly controversial. If you commit a crime during which someone ends up dead, you’re guilty of murder. These guys apparently all conspired to commit B&E and assault (the predicate crimes) and are therefore culpable for their co-conspirator’s murder. The guy who actually killed him, though, is not. Funny how that works. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheating-wife-sends-fake-burgler-to-scare-husband-who-cuts-burglers-throat/647134/15 "2013-01-14T11:24:24Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > The felony murder doctrine is not particularly controversial. . …incorrect. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheating-wife-sends-fake-burgler-to-scare-husband-who-cuts-burglers-throat/647134/16 "2013-01-14T13:34:39Z")
Depending on circumstances, it seems like an accomplice would be charged with Manslaughter or 2nd degree murder rather than 1st degree. Unless, of course, it was a case of premeditated murder that all were party to. I could see this as a case for plea bargaining. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheating-wife-sends-fake-burgler-to-scare-husband-who-cuts-burglers-throat/647134/17 "2013-01-14T13:44:55Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Somehow it seems wrong to charge someone with murder, who didn’t, you know, actually commit the murder. I understand it’s fairly common if controversial. A more usual example would be someone committing armed robbery and an elderly bystander dying of heart failure, and the robbers being charged as murdering him. The logic being that if they hadn’t committed the felony, the death wouldn’t have happened even though they never intended it. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheating-wife-sends-fake-burgler-to-scare-husband-who-cuts-burglers-throat/647134/18 "2013-01-14T14:02:57Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > …incorrect. Incorrect how? 46 states have codified felony murder rules. If there’s been a significant controversy about it since Edwin v. Florida (which was something like 30 years ago) I haven’t heard of it. But I am certainly not an expert in these matters. ETA: That’s [Enmund v. Florida](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enmund_v._Florida) (1982). ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheating-wife-sends-fake-burgler-to-scare-husband-who-cuts-burglers-throat/647134/19 "2013-01-14T14:06:51Z")
NRA will insist all buglers carry assault rifles now. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheating-wife-sends-fake-burgler-to-scare-husband-who-cuts-burglers-throat/647134/20 "2013-01-14T14:14:06Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > NRA will insist all buglers carry assault rifles now. No, all cuckolds should carry assault rifles. With bayonets. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheating-wife-sends-fake-burgler-to-scare-husband-who-cuts-burglers-throat/647134.md?page=2)