One damn short honeymoon, I must say.
Last week, a 45-year-old Reno woman married her boyfriend of three years.
And on Saturday, suspicious her new hubby was having an affair, she called phone numbers that appeared on their caller ID, police said. One of those numbers belonged to an undercover drug detective in the regional Street Enforcement Team.
Tuesday afternoon, SET detectives informed her 48-year-old husband his wife was in jail on charges she gave the detective a $200 down payment to cut off his penis and torture his suspected mistress, said SET Sgt. Dave Evans. Detectives had been unable to find the husband until Tuesday.
Initially, Margaret Lynn Wilson wanted the detective to kill her husband for $2,000, but changed her mind because the maiming was $1,000 cheaper, Evans said....
Well, nice to know that she's on the lookout for a bargain, isn't it? After all, you wouldn't want to waste money having your husband whacked when you could just whack off the dangling bits and get your revenge that way. And, you know, I understand the whole maiming thing is much more satisfying.
Mind, I am somewhat curious as to why an undercover detective's phone number was on their caller ID. I mean, it clearly wasn't a number she recognized, and from the way the article was written, Detective Evans doesn't seem to have been one of the husband's friends.
But here's the part that gets me:
Last July, Wilson was arrested on charges she tried to burn down her now husband’s trailer, police said, and was placed on 18 months probation. He was not home in the West Fourth Street trailer park at the time of the fire, police said.
Um ... why would you want to marry someone who did that? I mean, clearly, it wasn't attempted murder -- or, at the very least, they couldn't prove that it was, or she wouldn't have gotten off so very lightly -- but you would think that once your fiancee has tried to burn you out, you'd say, "Perhaps we should look into ending this relationship before you end me." I mean, there's forgiveness, and then there's brain damage.
Posted by iain at July 07, 2004 06:00 PM
