Wedding-Day Pact

It’s common nowadays for couples to do a prenuptial agreement before they get married. It’s quite odd to enter into a wedding-day pact that if the husband or wife cheat on the other, then the spouse of the adulterer or adulteress would kill the lover. That’s a powerful deterrent. Although it wasn’t in this case.

The couple had been married about twelve years when the 32-year-old wife began an affair with her 53-year-old co-worker. The affair lasted 2-4 months. Later, she claimed that her lover was the only good thing she had in her life.

Making good on their wedding-day pact, the wife lured her lover to their home. Her 36-year-old husband hid in the home, waiting for his wife and lover to engage in sex then he killed the lover. Together they dismembered him and toss his body parts in a remote wooded area.

After a few days of missed work, a co-worker reporter him missing. It didn’t take long for law enforcement to focus on the wife/lover. After finding recent directions to the lover’s home in the missing man’s vehicle, her and her husband became the primary suspects in the lover’s disappearance. Law enforcement questioned them several times. They both maintained their innocence. Their home was searched, but there was not sufficient evidence found to charge them with a crime.

Then, less than two years after her lover went missing, her husband died from a drug overdose. After the coroner performed the autopsy on her husband—he ruled his death a homicide. Yes, he had a lot of heroin in his system, but someone had also strangled him. Their prime suspect was his wife.

With some clever detective work and some surveillance, they had a strong suspicion of where the missing lover’s remains might be. They staged an almost ‘haunting’ of the area, and shortly after, the wife called to speak with the investigator.

She admitted to everything—the lover’s murder and murdering her husband. Her excuse for killing her husband was that she hated him for killing her lover.

A jury found her guilty of first-degree murder and dismemberment of her ex-lover. The state offered a plea agreement for second-degree murder for killing her husband, and she accepted the deal. The court sentenced her to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

In court, the woman said the following about killing her husband,

“It was revenge. I evened the score.”

She has appealed her sentence twice, and both times the court upheld her life sentence.

Source: Superior Court of Lake County, State Court of Appeals, People, Law & Crime, Oxygen True Crime, TV6

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