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let's get into it number one lulu dorantes ramon sosa was a fighter from a young age originally
from carolina puerto rico he grew up boxing with his father and dreamed of making it big
when he was young he moved to houston texas but returned to puerto rico at age 17 to become
a professional boxer he succeeded and during his career he became known as the puerto rican express
after a few years he longed for a life outside the ring he went back to houston texas and began
training professional fighters instead he then met his first wife had three kids and opened
up his first boxing gym by 2000 his marriage had ended but his business was thriving then in 2007
he met lulu he was out at a salsa club when maria lourdes dorantes aka lulu stepped on his
foot they instantly connected and that night they danced the night away ramone said in an interview
i was under her spell ramon proposed to lulu after one year of dating and they married on march 15
2009 ramon recalls a moment at their wedding when lulu's mother came up to him and whispered
in his ear now she's your trouble ramone's children felt that lulu was cold to them
it seemed like she didn't want to do anything with them and didn't like him spending money on them
animosity grew between ramon's children and lulu so much so that they didn't attend the
wedding ramon opened a second gym with lulu in 2010 where she became a personal trainer
and kept the books but after a few years cracks started to emerge in their marriage
lulu told friends that ramon had become lazy and that she was working more than he was she
also claimed that he had been physical with her grabbing or pushing her and forcing her into sex
ramon was never charged with those claims over time ramon grew more and more concerned lulu
had been in the u.s on a visitor's visa but when she got her american citizenship
ramon worried she wouldn't need him anymore around the same time money started to go
missing from the business he wondered if lulu was skimming money and what she was doing with it
then he found out in 2015 when lulu hired a divorce attorney julio hoglar lulu had brought
hoglar photos of scratches on her arms that she claimed were from marone forcing himself on her
ramon claimed it was fabricated she also had a photo of a hole in a door
which ramone admitted he caused by punching the door out of frustration with lulu's accusations
during all of this lulu and ramon lived on different floors of the same home
lulu continued to confide in friends that she feared ramon would seriously hurt her then in
june 2015 a man named mundo was working out at the gym and overheard a conversation between lulu and
her 16 year old daughter mundo who was friends with both ramon and lulu said that they were
discussing a client at the gym who allegedly had ties to hitman and they mentioned ramon the next
day mundo confronted lulu and she told him that she was tired of ramon and wished he'd disappear
he knew his friend was in danger so he acted fast he convinced lulu that he believed her abuse
claims and that he had trusted connections to a hitman she could use he then told ramon everything
they called the police and they were told nothing could be done based on the conversations alone
they needed hard evidence and so ramona mondo decided to launch their own undercover
investigation first mundo would pretend to hire a hitman for lulu named paco using burner phones he
would text details of the murder for hire to the hitman so he could show lulu it was legit but the
person on the other end of the text would be ramon ramon was going to pretend to be his own hitman
at the same time mundo started recording his conversations with lulu to gather evidence
including a conversation where she was explicitly saying she wanted ramon killed
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but they started worrying about lulu what if she had someone else hired as a backup what if she ran
out of patience and had the job completed herself ramon started carrying a gun even keeping it under
his pillow at night and becoming increasingly paranoid then the police showed up at the house
lulu and ramon shared ramone had gotten into an altercation with lulu's son over a truck
and her son had video evidence of ramon knocking his phone out of his hand while he
was recording the incident her son accused ramon of punching him in the face which ramon denies i'm
an ex-professional fighter he said in a cbs news interview if i would have hit the kid believe me
he would not be standing up right now i didn't put a hand on that kid lulu and ramon attended a court
hearing lulu wanted a restraining order against ramon but instead he was ordered to move out and
stay away from their woodlands gym location the one they had together ramon also got a restraining
order against lulu so she couldn't enter his other gym which he owned before they met ten days later
paco the hitman aka ramon texted mundo that he needed 200 for a nine millimeter gun he would
use in the hit lulu paid the deposit and that's when ramon and mundo decided it was time to go to
the police lieutenant mike attrix at the precinct three constables office in montgomery county texas
got the call he said getting a call from a man claiming there was a murder for hire plot against
him was extremely rare in fact it was the first one of his career the police took over the case
from there using mundo as their inside source he scheduled a meeting on july 20th between lulu and
an undercover agent acting as paco lulu agreed and met with paco in a parking lot near the gym
she brought with her jewelry watches and 500 as payment though this exchange gave police
enough evidence to arrest lulu then and there they were still concerned about her abuse allegations
against ramon and so they hatched a plan the police said rahman would have to fake his own
death they'd take a photo of him dead in a grave with a fake gunshot wound to the head to show
lulu the hit was completed they discussed their plan with ramone and he agreed to it
they watched youtube videos on how to apply makeup to make the wound look as realistic as possible
and referenced real crime scene photos as they stage ramone's murder they placed ramon in a grave
in a rural location with his hands bound behind him wearing nothing but his underwear then they
covered him in more blood and dirt before snapping their photos at that moment ramon remembered
thinking i cannot believe this i cannot believe what i'm doing this is what lulu wanted right here
this is what she wanted on july 23 2015 the police arranged a second meeting between lulu and paco
to show her the photo evidence and receive payment the chilling interaction was captured on video
by police and included footage of lulu laughing the chilean interaction was captured on video by
police and included footage of lulu laughing after seeing the photo of her supposed murdered husband
she paid him the rest of the money
and i get upset about how lulu reacted
when they actually show when the officer showed her the picture of me dead
she started laughing and racing her hands you know two people like she hit the lotto this is
this is her big shot the next day the police went to the gym lulu was working at to inquire
about her missing husband they asked her about ramon's whereabouts but she said she hadn't seen
or talked to him due to their ongoing divorce the police then placed her under arrest and she
was charged with solicitation of capital murder while lulu awaited trial her assault charges
against ramon were dismissed she also agreed to her divorce settlement which gave ramon
both gyms and their house in october of 2016 41 year old lulu darontes pled guilty to reduced
charge of second-degree solicitation of murder avoiding a trial and possible life sentence
she was given 20 years in state prison and after looking out the evidence and i would hear all the
audio i would see her and there was no remorse in her voice there was no repent there was just
anger anger anger every time i heard those audios and it was to send chills down my back sosa
planned out the murder for hire plot last year she promised the agent two thousand dollars and her
husband's truck once the job was done her husband ramon spoke out in court and said he and his wife
were going through a divorce and everything would be split down the middle but it wasn't good enough
she wanted him dead all for the greed of money there was a time i was thinking maybe you know
i should just go forward and say look man you know this is wrong but every time i listen to the audio
she wanted me dead bad she wanted me dead bad she even said it that i was better to her dead
number two bailonga kalala
in 2004 noella roccundo immigrated from burundi east africa to melbourne australia as a refugee
to start a new life with her five children during her immigration she met a fellow congolese refugee
named balanga kalala kalala was a forklift operator whose wife and children had been
killed by a rebel army in congo before he came to australia they shared a social worker
who would ask kalella to translate for noella as they both spoke swahili they quickly fell in love
and got married over the years they had three more children together then kalala began to suspect
noella was cheating on him though his accusations were never proven he was convinced though
and wanted to have her killed so he devised a plan in january of 2015 noella was back in burundi for
her stepmother's funeral she was staying at a hotel and got a call from her husband she walked
outside and was immediately confronted by an armed man who directed her to get into a vehicle there
there were two other armed men who were waiting for her inside she was blindfolded and taken to
a warehouse where they tied her to a chair but instead of murdering her they told her everything
her husband had paid them nearly seven thousand dollars to kill her but since they didn't murder
women or children they refused to follow through with it instead the kidnappers were just going to
tell kalala that they'd kill noella and she could and they'd keep the money at first she didn't
believe their claims about her husband to prove it they called kalala and put him on the speakerphone
to confirm what they should do next he simply said kill her noella fainted when she heard his reply
noella didn't make it to the funeral and she was considered missing her brother started to worry he
called kalella and asked him to send money over so the police could look into her disappearance
which he did on february 19 2015 the kidnappers dropped noella off on the side of the road
with the evidence she'd needed to convict her husband of his crimes including a memory card
with phone conversations and payments of receipts the kidnappers left noella with one final message
you have 80 hours to leave the country other people may not spare your life like we did she
immediately contacted the kenyan and belgian embassies to help get her back to australia
she also called her pastor explaining that she was indeed alive and that she needed
his help back in melbourne kalella told noella's relatives that she'd died in an
accident he held her funeral at their home on february 22nd 2015. that same day noella watched
as her loved ones left her very own funeral then she stepped out of the car calela shocked
asked if she was a ghost he touched her shoulder to see if she was real and noelle exclaimed
surprise i'm alive calallen began apologizing for everything he'd done but it was too late
and noella called the police the police obtained a court order against calela and secretly recorded
him admitting to nuella that he'd ordered the hit on her the police arrested kelela who first denied
his part in the murder for hire only to confess after they played the recording callalow was
charged with incitement to murder on december 11 2015 and sentenced to nine years in prison
at his sentencing chief justice marilyn warren said had miss rokundo's kidnappers completed
the job eight children would have lost their mother it was premeditated and motivated by
unfounded jealousy anger and a desire to punish miss racundo number three lawrence henley
all of you thanks so much for joining us we're learning more about an alleged kidnapping
plot in lafayette it resulted in the arrest of an acadiana businessman and the death of two men who
were reportedly hired to kidnap the suspect's ex august 6 2017 was a hot summer night in lafayette
louisiana chandra handley was at home with her 14 year old daughter and a neighbor who'd come over
for a visit the doorbell rang and chandra answered and it was two men in blue uniforms who wanted to
demonstrate a carpet steamer for her shonda declined and as she did the men forced their
way into her home holding semi-automatic handguns they immediately pulled a hood over shonda's head
and handcuffed her and also handcuffed her daughter and the visiting neighbor they pulled
chandra out of the house and pushed her into a van leaving her daughter and neighbor behind the men
driving the van were sylvester bracey and arsenio haynes both 27 years old and they'd been hired by
her estranged husband to kidnap her her husband 53 year old lawrence handley was a business executive
from lafayette who'd become a millionaire by the time he was 30. he ran a software and vitamin
business and was chief executive of a drug treatment center that sold in a 21 million
dollar deal in 2015. he himself had battled with alcoholism which he blamed on his immense fortune
shonda and hanley had married in 2006 10 years later they were filing restraining orders against
each other due to abusive incidents handley filed for divorce and accused chandra of attacking him
threatening him and hiring a hitman to kill him shonda was charged with two domestic violence
allegations chandra accused hanley of tracking her phone accessing her emails installing spyware
on her computer and sending her threatening messages during their divorce handling constantly
threatened chandra allegedly telling her that armageddon was coming at one point shonda had live
insecurity at her house due to her ex-husband's threats i knew he was coming to get me she said
it was around this time that hanley began planning his kidnapping his lawyer said
hanley had been using methamphetamine and cocaine for days beforehand and that he planned to rescue
chandra from the kidnappers so he could be seen as a hero and win her back to pull it
off he needed hitman enter bracey and haynes both from mississippi and both with criminal records
he met with them at his family camp near woodville mississippi which was captured on video
surveillance in the video hanley offers to pay the men for the crime in 19 gold bars detective
jarrett istray obtained a video of hanley planning the kidnapping along with checklists and evidence
of him renting the van and handcuffs used by the kidnappers during the van ride the kidnappers
threatened tortured and abused chandra when they hit a traffic jam on interstate 10 they decided
to make their own shortcut and began speeding along the shoulder of the road that's when they
were spotted by an off-duty sheriff's deputy who speculated the vehicle may be stolen and tried to
stop it they began a high-speed chase until the driver drove off the road onto a dead-end street
the kidnappers then abandoned the van with chandra insteid and attempted to flee the scene by jumping
into the intercoastal canal the police were unable to locate the men until less than a day later
when their bodies were found they both drowned henley was arrested four days later at the hotel
near new orleans where he was trying to escape the country by chartering a plane
in july of 2021 he pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree kidnapping and one count of
attempted second-degree kidnapping he faced up to 35 years in prison hanley originally pleaded not
guilty by reason of insanity which was disallowed after he was determined to be mentally competent
enough to stand trial since he entered a plea deal he avoided an aggravated kidnapping charge which
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