I believe it is not uncommon for people to "do things they
ordinarily wouldn't do" because of love or obsession. A few
years ago in my neighborhood, a guy I knew started an affair
with the wife of a doctor who treated my kids a few times.
The woman and her doctor husband separated and there was a
very bitter custody battle. One evening the doctor answered
his door and was shot and killed in a professional hit. It
happened about a block from my house. After a lengthy
investigation, the police arrested and a court convicted the
lover for hiring the hit. He's in jail, the wife got the
kids, the hitman was never caught and there's a playground
named in honor of the dead doctor.
How did they convict the lover? A few months after the
murder, the wife dumped the lover and he became so depressed
he decided to kill himself. He wrote a suicide note
confessing all and then couldn't pull the trigger. But the
idiot didn't destroy the note and one day a son from his
previous marriage found it and gave it to the police.
So can life sometimes resemble a James M. Cain plot?
Yes.
Richard Moore
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