Posted on 11/28/2006 11:04:51 AM PST by Dysart
ALLEN - A pregnant woman came home to a frightening sight and even more frightening news, police said: A strange man was in her bedroom and told her he had been hired by her husband to kill her.
"Your husband wants you murdered," the man told Roxane Sterling, according to police reports. He then told the woman, who is eight months pregnant, to call police.
The man had entered the empty house in this Dallas suburb while the woman's husband and their 3-year-old son were visiting relatives in New Mexico.
Albert Jackson Sterling II faces two counts of criminal solicitation of capital murder _ one for his wife and another for the unborn child. He was being held in lieu of $1 million bail in the Otero County Jail in New Mexico. An extradition hearing was scheduled for Tuesday.
The man who entered the couple's home was not charged with a crime, police said.
"He did not go there with the intent to murder her," said Capt. Robert Flores. "He went with the intent to warn her."
Investigators said Albert Sterling, 38, offered the man a large amount of money to kill his wife while he was away and helped him get into the home.
Albert Sterling flew to visit family in Alamogordo, N.M. on Nov. 21. That afternoon, the man stood in the couple's bedroom and warned his wife, Flores said.
Police say they have not been called to the family's home before and that Albert Sterling apparently doesn't have prior convictions in Texas.
The couple lived in a $405,000 brick home, and tax records show they own property in McKinney worth $224,860.
Roxane Sterling, 37, left for Louisiana to be with her family.
Who says hitmen don't have a conscience?
So did the hitman keep the money?
What an honorable man the stranger was...an angel unaware.
My $10 says when the guy saw she was pregnant, he developed the conscience.
Props to the man for doing the right thing and not following through. It takes one sick bastard to contract to kill a pregnant woman.
I don't see the hitman's name in the article. Perhaps it was Jules Winfield.
"Luckily you caught me in a transitional period - I want to help you."
Yet if the wife were to visit the local Planned Parenthood and do it herself we would call this....."liberty"....."progress"...."enlightenment".
Another one of those cases which exposes the absurdity of the abortion laws and the right-to-life status of unborn children.
Kidding...
One would hope so - especially in this case.
If you can't trust your hitman, now days, who can you trust?
Isn't there a "Truth In Assasination" Law?
No, never hire a hitman to kill your pregnant wife AROUND CHRISTMAS TIME.
Merry Christmas, lady. I hope you really appreciate the gift you were just given.
The article reads like a scene from a Harlequin romance novel. ;)
Maybe she hired the hitman to tell the story. Just a thought.
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LOL
I think that's going to hurt the hit-man's ebay rating
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