Kill the Boyfriend, Then Take a Dip
Woman offers would-be hitman her pool and 200 bucks to kill ex
By PEGGY CASSIDY
Updated 1:18 PM CST, Tue, Jul 28, 2009
Perhaps in hotter weather the deal would have made more sense, but an Indiana woman's offer of her above-ground pool and $200 in gas money just wasn't enough to lure an undercover FBI agent into a plot to kille the Hoosier's ex-boyfriend.
Heidi Friedburg, 30, and her current boyfriend, William C. Alexander, 31, of New Carlisle, Ind., were arrested Monday as they unloaded Friedburg's disassembled swimming pool to seal the deal with the would-be hit man in a south suburban parking lot, Chicago Breaking News Center reported.
Ross Rice, the FBI spokesman in Chicago, said he believed it was the first murder-for-hire case that began with text messages -- and without a doubt the first time a pool had been offered as payment.
"How low can we go?" Rice wondered aloud.
The swimming pool, he said, had been seized as evidence.
First Published: Jul 8, 2009 9:15 AM CST
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