$20,000.
That seems to be the asking price for killing off one’s soon-to-be-ex-husband.
In an interesting case in New York, 43-year old Susan Williams has been arrested because she contracted with an undercover cop to arrange for the killing of her estranged husband of 21 years. The Williams couple was apparently in the middle of a bitter divorce, and I suppose the $20k sounded cheap compared to the legal bills she’d incur trying to secure her, ahem, fair share of the assets. Strangely, the mother of four seemed nonplussed the entire arrangement, going about her normal beauty salon treatments routine (and complaining to her hairdresser about the difficulties of dating as a soon-to-be-divorced woman in her early 40s) as she anticipated her husband being killed and his body quietly and mysteriously disposed of.
Unfortunately for Williams, she’s now behind bars and Mr. Williams has been granted temporary custody. It always strikes me as strange when a woman flips her lid like this during a divorce, because if a woman plays her cards correctly, she’s going to win the divorce 99% of the time. I suppose there is the greed factor (nothing beats getting 100% rather than something between 50 and 100%) and perhaps the revenge factor (if her husband was cheating or something like that – a la Elin Nordegren yet a bit more organized and determined). But perhaps the strangest thing about this case is the following little factoid:
Why, if you were planning to hire a hit man to kill your spouse, would you approach an ex-cop for advice?
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