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True story: My great-uncle tried to hire a hitman to kill the neighboring chicken farmer. He offered the hitman $1000 for the hit and $500 each (or maybe it was $100, I can't remember) for each of the neighboring chicken farmer's eyeballs. Like the lady in the following story, he was caught. Unlike this lady, he was caught before the hit happened because he was trying to hire an undercover state cop to perform the hit. My great-uncle is not exactly the smartest gator in the bayou. Let this be a lesson unto you, Louisianians: it never pays to hire a hitman. Unless you want to be on a Lifetime movie or, like my great-uncle, end up being a raving old coot whom everyone in the family hates. Via the Shreveport Times:

Caddo sheriff's detectives now believe Sunday's slaying in Keithville was orchestrated by the victim's wife who is alleged to have hired a hitman through a family friend.

Bobbie Loretta Luttrell, wife of 50 years to Ernest Lutrell, was arrested Thursday for first-degree murder, following her husband's funeral. Detectives said she'd been in Arkansas with family since the killing.

Caddo Parish Sheriff Steve Prator said detectives discovered over the course of a four-day investigation Luttrell plotted with family friend and housekeeper Tina VanMoerkerque, arrested Wednesday, to kill her husband.

Luttrell asked VanMoerkerque to find a hitman to kill her husband and said she'd pay that person $1,000. VanMoerkerque found Erick Crain, who was arrested Tuesday, and he accepted the contract, according to Cindy Chadwick, Caddo sheriff's office spokesperson. Chadwick said Luttrell and VanMoerkerque planned Sunday's murder and robbery together.

Prator said the murder was pre-planned and financially motivated, but said the details of the motivation would come out during trial.

"It's something like a Lifetime movie would be about," Prator said.