GUILTY MI - Rose Cobb, 47, dies in contract killing, Detroit, 26 Dec 2007

[Taximom]

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080421/NEWS01/80421029

(snips)
The Detroit police sergeant accused of hiring a hit man to kill his wife was having an affair, a possible motive, police told the Free Press today.
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Smothers said he met David Cobb in early December through the son of Cobb’s mistress, police said.

Smothers told police that Cobb offered him $10,000 of insurance money and they set up the 9 p.m. shooting time, when Cobb would be shopping inside the pharmacy, police said.

We SO TOTALLY CALLED THIS within hours of finding out about it, didn't we?

I feel sorry for Rose's family finding out for sure this is what happened.

 

[joe jones]

http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1407567/

you couldn't make this stuff up, Cobb is now saying his mistress and her son have set him up, the son is suspected of being the go between who arranged the deal between Cobb and the hitman,

I guess that will be his defence, that he never did anything, he never wanted his wife killed,

 

[Taximom]

Yeah, they told him to take his wife to the drug store and have her wait in the van at 9:00 that night.

 

[Taximom]

From the article though, it does sound like the mistress's (?!) son was a criminal too. (Probably how Cobb met her!)

 

[fran]

Wow! I almost forgot about this case, it had been so quiet! Guess LE hadn't forgotten though. Good for them.:behindbar

IIRC, at the time of this incident, the Cutts thing had just gone down too. I know I was hesitant to accuse the husband because I was afraid I was becoming bias against LE because of Cutts.

Guess policemen aren't immune from having evil thoughts.

I'm glad they have this guy off the streets. Both Cobb and the hitman. It'll be interesting to see this unfold.

JMHO
fran

 

[joe jones]

From the article though, it does sound like the mistress's (?!) son was a criminal too. (Probably how Cobb met her!)

he is also about to be arrested and probably charged for helping set the deal up, I wonder if the mistress is also being looked at,

Smothers is talking quite freely so they will know who played which role, and how involved they were in the crime,

 

[Taximom]

It wouldn't surprise me if they were all involved, but if Cobb thinks he can blame it all on them claiming he's totally innocent, when HE was the one in the drug store at the appropriate time...I think he's got another lesson to learn.

 

[joe jones]

He has no other defence, so he will go with what he has got, I think he was involved, that he was the one who wanted her killed, maybe he and his mistress cooked up the plot together, and the son got into the mix as he was the one with connections to the hit man,

there may also be others who were involved, that have yet to be arrested, but I think Cobbs was probably the one who began the whole plan to have Rose killed,

It will be a hard sell to a jury that he is an innocent man, plus one or more people including Smothers may be willing to talk, some of them for a plea agreement,

Smothers won't be getting a plea, he appears to have fessed up to killing at least 7 people,

 

[nanandjim]

He has no other defence, so he will go with what he has got, I think he was involved, that he was the one who wanted her killed, maybe he and his mistress cooked up the plot together, and the son got into the mix as he was the one with connections to the hit man,

there may also be others who were involved, that have yet to be arrested, but I think Cobbs was probably the one who began the whole plan to have Rose killed,

It will be a hard sell to a jury that he is an innocent man, plus one or more people including Smothers may be willing to talk, some of them for a plea agreement,

Smothers won't be getting a plea, he appears to have fessed up to killing at least 7 people,

It will be interesting to see if they have phone records tying Cobbs to Smothers or the stepson. I think that it was the cop who orchestrated the murder. How else would the hitman have known where the guy was going to be with his wife on this particular night at this particular time. How else would the hitman know that the cop would leave his wife in the car? Sorry, but I believe that the cop arranged the hit.

 

[joe jones]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24259977/

wow, Cobbs released without charges, prosecutors say not enough evidence

 

[SuziQ]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24259977/

wow, Cobbs released without charges, prosecutors say not enough evidence

Wow is right. There is still the connection to Cobbs girlfriends son. Could the hit have been ordered by Cobbs girlfriend? Weird.

 

[SuziQ]

Well someone ordered the hit because Marzell Black was charged with soliciting the murder. Is Mr. Black the girlfriends son?

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080422/NEWS01/80422020

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Worthy said Vincent Smothers, 27, of Shelby Township, who told police he is a professional hit man, was charged today in the Dec. 26 shooting death of Cobb’s wife, Rose Cobb. A second man, Marzell Shawn Black, 20, of Detroit, was charged today with solicitation of a murder, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.

Police have said Black set up the slaying of Rose Cobb.

 

[SuziQ]

At the below linked video the reporter states that Marzell Black is the son of Cobbs girlfriend.

http://www.wxyz.com/news/story.aspx?content_id=e277b0b7-4ac4-40e6-9062-6640bb1ada7c

The nephews of Rose Cobb say that when their aunt was murdered, they thought her husband, Sgt. David Cobb, had something to do with the crime.

Now that's he's been released, they say they're afraid something could happen to them.

TOM WAIT REPORTS IN THE VIDEO PLAYER ON THE RIGHT

 

[Taximom]

I still think he had something to do with it. He could have set them up without them realizing it, if you know what I mean.

I know, I know, just because he's a cheater doesn't mean he's a killer.

Thanks for the updates.

 

[joe jones]

I still think he had something to do with it, LE just have to work a bit harder to connect the dots,

and being a police officer he knows how to cover his tracks, so he probably left no evidence that would connect him to the crime like telephone calls between he and the hit man, or he and the mistresses son,

I think they will eventually get enough to charge him, but for now at least they have this hit man off the streets, and the man who set up the hit, the net will close in time on all the other participants

 

[SuziQ]

In that group I see only two people who would have had motive to kill Rose. And that would be her husband or his girlfriend. At least Cobb is involved because how would Smother's (as others pointed out) have known that Rose would have been sitting in her car all by herself at the CVS?

 

[joe jones]

The only way the hit man would know where Rose was would be via Cobbs or the mistress, maybe the mistress knew his movements, made sure she knew his movements for the hit to be carried out, Maybe Cobbs and the mistress were in on it together,

for now I think he for sure is involved, the only reason I would discount him is if the mistress is shown to have wanted Rose dead so she could have her husband, and Cobbs knew nothing of it,

LE are being very secretive about the investigation, and are keeping quiet until they are ready to make arrests, so if the mistress is a suspect we may not know until she is arrested or not,

http://www.wxyz.com/mostpopular/story.aspx?content_id=3fd2638b-bb32-449e-b672-05e959653489

what Smothers is facing

 

[nanandjim]

In that group I see only two people who would have had motive to kill Rose. And that would be her husband or his girlfriend. At least Cobb is involved because how would Smother's (as others pointed out) have known that Rose would have been sitting in her car all by herself at the CVS?

I was one poster who pointed that out. I can also tell you that if I were Cobb's girlfriend, and I were innocent, you can bet that I would be talking really fast to the police to make sure that I was not implicated in this murder in any way.

 

[fran]

Well someone ordered the hit because Marzell Black was charged with soliciting the murder. Is Mr. Black the girlfriends son?

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080422/NEWS01/80422020

(snip)
Worthy said Vincent Smothers, 27, of Shelby Township, who told police he is a professional hit man, was charged today in the Dec. 26 shooting death of Cobb’s wife, Rose Cobb. A second man, Marzell Shawn Black, 20, of Detroit, was charged today with solicitation of a murder, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.

Police have said Black set up the slaying of Rose Cobb.

IF the hitman never actually talked directly to Cobb, it would be pretty difficult to prove he's behind the hit. It is possible, IMO, that the gf's son hired the gunman on his own to help his mom. IF there's drugs involved, (with the son, Black) all bets are off.

Drugs make people do all sorts of weird things. Paranoia, stupid schemes, etc. I'm not sayin' Cobb didn't do it, but the way his wife was murdered, it immediately put suspicion on Cobb himself. I don't know that Cobb would have been that stupid, IF he'd wanted to do away with his wife.

It just seems there are too many ways the crime COULD have gone down to keep the eyes off the husband. But..........someone high on drugs might think the scheme was believeable, when to any sane person looking from the outside in, the story had too many holes and pointed directly at the husband. Or, IF Cobb was right and that was the intention all along, framing HIM for the crime!

JMHO
fran

 

[joe jones]

http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/587415.html

prelim May 1st for Smothers and Black