Earlier today I 1/2 watched a 48 Hour mystery. Wish I'd written the name down so I could read a little more about it. My accuracy on how the story may not be QUITE the deal, but you'll get the point.
It was about the murder of a woman by a driver her husband had encountered in, I think a trip from the airport. It goes that the husband said the driver was extremely rude, so the husband called the car service dispatch and wanted to speak to the driver personally. The company said it was unusual for the customer to talk directly to the driver, they usually just reported it to the office.
So the car service talked to the driver and the driver said to give the customer his phone #. To make a long story a little shorter, the story goes the husband claimed the driver had been harrassing him and broke into his home and attacked the wife and killed her, so the husband in his wife's defense, killed the driver trying to protect her.
Investigated, case closed.
A couple of years later or so, I think it was his new wife contacted LE and so on, the guy was arrested with the story going he set-up the driver to look like he'd killed the wife, but it was the husband who killed them both. Well, after hours of deliberation, he was found guilty,
Many didn't believe it because there'd never been any hint of trouble in the marriage. He was loved and adored even by the wife's family. None............, but when he was convicted, well, they still weren't so sure, except there was a great deal of evidence. Even the investigators were embarrassed that they'd let it go on for so long. See, one thing that incriminated him was a note on the driver's seat in his auto, of the address and the time, showing a set-up appointment. The husband said he didn't lure him there, but LE had proof he did. There was also some discrepancy of the position of the bodies when found.
Very controversial verdict, many thought it was wrong. The convicted husband even invited 48 Hours to his prison to speak to them and profess his innocence.
Fast forward a year or two, the convicted murderer was accused of a new crime, conspiring to hire a 'hit man' to kill his NEW wife for testifying against him, but before she was murdered, she was to be kidnapped and forced to write in detail how she'd lied at trial and her husband was innocent. Oh, and just for good measure, IF there were enough funds left over from erasing the 2nd wife, kill the father of his first wife.
No evidence of a troubled marriage. By all intents and purposes they were happy, the wife loved him deeply, beautiful home, small child, a perfect life.
Oh, except for the g/f the wife didn't know about.
Planned out to the last detail, except one detail beyond his control, unplanned for, sealed his fate. Leading to placing of the other pieces of the puzzle that told a story of murder.
There is no school on how to commit murder. There is no coincidence when it comes to murder. But there are lots of people convicted every day in the United States, who think they're smarter than everyone else and can get away with it. Fortunately, MANY are proven wrong and living the rest of their lives behind prison walls.
JMHO
fran
