Ho. Lee. Crap. What do you do when you find out your husband is hiring people to kill you? Aside from finding a good divorce lawyer, that is?
Wow. That’s, um? nice of him? (The putative killer, I mean.)
Assuming what he had to say was true, of course.
You get the hell out of Dodge! (Which she did, BTW.)
I dunno, seems a bit dramatic. Playing along without getting in touch with the police himself would be incredibly dangerous I would think. Maybe he had second thoughts and figured it was a way to save himself?
My gut instinct is that the guy broke into the house, figured he was busted, and made up the story on the spot. Who knows, but it still sounds pretty fishy to me.
Call the police and get out of town. Call your family and friends and have them all get out of town too if it sounds dangerous enough. Wonder why the hell the hitman didn’t just go to the police himself and try to figure out whether or not he is lying while locked in a hotel room two towns over.
From the article it seems that the police believes the “hitman”. I mean, instead of detaining the trepasser, they went to detain the husband!
I’d wait for my husband to come home and gauge his reaction upon seeing me alive. Presumably, if he really did order a hitman, he’d be shocked that you’re alive as always.
Has the hitman actually done anything illegal besides breaking into her house?
That seems pretty risky. Shocked, yes, but what if he was furious and decided to do the job himself?
I can’t help but wonder if there are more details that we’re not getting. The guy broke into the house and then hands the woman a story about being hired to kill her? Maybe he was just a thief with a gift for BS.
I find it hard to believe that they didn’t charge him with anything. What proof does he provide that the husband actually hired him?
It’ll be interesting to see how this all sorts out.
From the article I’ve read, he may not have actually broken in to the home. He says he was let in to the home by the husband, which means his being there wouldn’t be a crime (if someone invites you in, it obviously isn’t breaking and entering or trespassing.)
It’s highly suspicious the husband had flown to visit family the same day a self-acknowledged contract killer shows up in the house. In contract killings I think it is SOP that the person putting out the contract gets far away from the crime so their alibi is clearly established (without that, what’s the point?)
This article from the Dallas Morning News give a little bit more information. I wouldn’t be surprised if the police have financial information to back up the hitman’s claims (like a large withdrawal from the husband’s checking account or etc.)
Maybe the wife is framing hubby. She could have let him in when she knew hubby was gone. If there was money withdrawn from a bank account, she might have done that as well. But there’s probably some way to verify who exactly made the withdraw, especially if it was a large amount of dough.
Cospiracy to commit murder?
According to the article Martin Hyde posted, it wasn’t even breaking and entering. He was let in by the (soon-to-be ex-)husband.
As I understand it, he did try to kill her, and succeeded only in maiming her. In the struggle, she got the upper hand and demanded to know why he had attacked her.
“Lady, your husband hired me to kill you.”
“Husband? What husband?”
“Oh. Is this 144 Beach Road?”
I think that so far that is still just the assertion of the man, and I’d suspect the husband disputes it ;).
VERY stupid of the hitman to not go to the police himself, as if the cops became aware of the hit, he would be guilty of conspiracy, among other things. Even if he knew the whole time he was not going to actually go through with hit, he would have a hard time convincing the cops that he was just going to warn her if he was arrested approaching the house.
Plus don’t dumbass husbands learn that when they are OUT OF TOWN the day your wife is murdered, that it looks very very suspicious? Idiot. It’s not the perfect alibi, its the perfect example of why you are probably involved.