DUMB CRIMINAL OF THE WEEK: MURDER PLOT FOILED BY FAKE DEATH
by Hazed
A man staged his own murder – but he wasn’t the dumb criminal. He was rather a smart victim, who put on the elaborate charade after he discovered his wife has hired a hitman to kill him. This happened last year, but police have only just released the details.
Boxing coach Ramon Sosa and his wife Lulu were together for eight years, but in 2015 financial worries put a strain on their relationship. Lula’s solution to their problems was to try to hire a hitman to kill her husband.
Unfortunately for her, she approached someone who was a former boxing student of Ramon, who ratted her out. So Ramon and the FBI decided to stage his death in order to fool Lulu. Texas Rangers painted bloody makeup onto the “victim”, making it look as though he’d been shot in the head.
Then they drove him to the desert and put him in a “shallow grave” which they had dug in preparation. They took photos of the “corpse” and then hid Ramon in a hotel for three days. You can see the pictures at the source link below.
“Lying in the dirt, pretending to be dead, was terrifying,” Ramon recalled.
Meanwhile, an undercover officer posed as a hitman and showed Lulu the pictures of her dead husband. On seeing them, she laughed. That was enough to get her arrested, and in October 2016 she pleaded guilty to solicitation of murder and was jailed for 20 years.
Ramon commented on the somewhat violent end to his marriage: “When I first met Lulu, I certainly didn’t expect our relationship to end like that.”
Source: http://metro.co.uk/2017/11/07/man-faked-his-own-murder-after-wife-hired-hitman-to-kill-him-7059990/
