A man faked his own death with the help of police after discovering that his wife had
hired a hitman to kill him.
That is some messed up sh*t.
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Nearly half of all marriages end in divorce, but divorce can be a long and slow process.
Maria de Lourdes Sosa was unhappy with how long it was taking to divorce from her husband,
boxing coach Ramon Sosa...
So, she decided to have Ramon killed.
You know... totally normal.
The Sun reports that Maria unknowingly approached one of her husband's friends named Gustavo,
to organize a hit on Ramon.
"I knew him, because I'd coached him.
He'd been in trouble in the past.
At first, when he called and said he needed to see me, because someone 'wanted to kill
me,' I thought he was joking."
Ramon had little reason to suspect that his wife wanted him dead.
I mean, people joke about that when they're divorcing or breaking up, but you don't actually
do it...
But, it wasn't always like this...
When Ramon first met Maria, he fell in love with her hard.
The 50-year-old divorcee would brag to his three children that he had found the woman
of his dreams, a 47-year-old personal trainer named Maria, nicknamed Lulu.
Ramon described their relationship saying, "She would give me manicures, pedicures and
foot rubs.
She would rub oils onto my back and treat me to massages.
It was paradise and my friends were jealous."
Well, yeah.
I'd be jealous too!
I want that.
Hint, hint boyfriend...
And, things were great, until the gym Ramon owned began to struggle.
And, the financial strain meant the couple had to live together under the same roof during
their divorce.
That's when Ramon got the chilling call from his friend Gustavo.
And, the two men came up with a plan to record Maria planning the murder.
I mean, this is like a Dateline story mixed in with a telenovela.
In the recording, Gustavo pretends to know two hitmen.
Gustavo and Ramon took the recording to the Houston police, who came up with a ridiculous
sting operation...
Ramon said, "They asked me to pretend to be dead, so we could show the pictures to Lulu."
And, that's exactly what he did.
Police helped Ramon fake his own death at the hands of hired hitmen.
Undercover police posed as the hired killers and recorded their conversations with Lulu.
She offered the hitman $4,000, jewelry and Ramon's truck.
Sounds like a great deal...
And she paid half the cash upfront, and promised the rest later.
$2,000 is barely enough to put down a deposit for a Hollywood apartment, let alone a contract
killing.
But, hey.
You gotta do what you gotta do I guess...
Then, with the help of makeup artists and forensic experts, police made Ramon look like
he had been shot in the temple and left dead in the desert.
He says, "Lying in the dirt, pretending to be dead, was terrifying.
When I first met Lulu, I certainly didn't expect our relationship to end like that."
Ya think?
And then Ramon hid in a hotel while the photos were shown to his wife.
This just keeps getting weirder and weirder...
I mean, I totally would watch this series on Netflix.
Ramon tells ABC News, "When I saw the video of her - when they showed her the staged photos
of me dead with bullet in the side of my head - she giggled and laughed like she hit the
lotto."
What a raging, evil b*tch!
Ramon has, thankfully, moved on and is now in a relationship with someone new, and, hopefully,
not as crazy.
He also says the experience has changed his life forever.
He continues, "it would be wrong to say this hadn't had a lasting impact on me.
I'll never be the same man again."
Yeah, thinking you're gonna be murdered by your ex-wife, and then staging your murder...
that could change someone.
Maria then pled guilty in court, and is now serving 20 years in prison.
And, you can find her story in a new character thread on Orange Is The New Black.
While this all happened in 2015, the photos used in the sting have just been made public,
and have caused quite a reaction on social media.
@Akkuracy tweets, "Lmfao no real hitman is doing work for 2K she played herself."
@Spartan writes, 'This man is livin' in 3017."
@KeelinTheModel simply jokes, "Gone Boy."
Haha, yeah I get it.
The movie, "Gone Girl."
So, you might be asking, "why go through the trouble of faking the photos when they had
enough evidence, perhaps to actually arrest her."
Prosecutors say it's about getting as much evidence as possible.
So, they went in deep.
Assistant District Attorney Kelly Blackburn tells ABC News, "You want to try to take it
as far as you can, 'cause you want to show the true intent of this person was to make
sure that their spouse or their boyfriend or their business partner was dead."
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