Let's ask this guy
Posted on 12/03/2006 9:18:48 PM PST by txroadkill
Albert Jackson Sterling II left the back door unlocked for the man he hired to kill his pregnant wife, police say.
As the Sterlings and their 3-year-old son drove to the airport, Jeffrey Thompson slipped into their stately brick home in Allen, and waited.
The plan had been to put on Mr. Sterling's gloves, kill his wife, dump her body and leave her car in a different location, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. For that, Mr. Sterling would pay him $2,500.
"The chicken has flown the coop," Mr. Sterling said in a voicemail message to Mr. Thompson recovered by Allen police. "She will be there in an hour. Just have patience."
Mr. Sterling, 38, was arrested last Wednesday in New Mexico on two counts of criminal solicitation of capital murder – one for his 8-months pregnant wife and another for the unborn child. Police said he arranged to have his wife killed while he was away visiting family for the holidays.
Court documents released Tuesday detail the plan Mr. Thompson said he was hired to carry out. He ultimately abandoned it and decided not to kill Ms. Sterling, but to warn her instead. Police said they don't plan to charge him.
Roxane Sterling, 37, was unharmed.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Thompson, who police have described as an acquaintance of Mr. Sterling, told police that he decided he would not kill Ms. Sterling the night before the plan was supposed to unfold.
But Mr. Sterling picked him up at a pub at noon last Tuesday as planned and dropped him off at the couple's $405,000 home before leaving with his wife, the affidavit says.
After driving her husband and son to the airport, Ms. Sterling stopped briefly at work, then drove home. She entered her house through the garage.
She found Mr. Thompson in her bedroom, wearing black gloves and holding his belt.
He called her by name and said her husband had hired him to kill her, he told police. He would not harm her, he said. He said he would probably get in trouble, but she needed to call police. He would not run.
Ms. Sterling backed into the hallway, and sat on a bench, in shock. She watched Mr. Thompson remove a glove. Then she ran.
As her neighbor called 911, Ms. Sterling sobbed uncontrollably.
At the Allen Police Department, Mr. Thompson described the plan. He had always been told "the truth will set you free," he told them, and he was going to see if that was true.
"The fool tried to get someone to kill his wife," he told police, according to the affidavit.
The Husband is being charged with two counts of criminal solicitation of capital murder. One count for his wife, one count for her un-born child.
Not really in that context but it worked.
I can't udesrstand a man who would wack his wife while pregnant.
How can they charge him for his unborn child? Abortion isn't murder after all....
Trust me. If you were pregnant, you would try to whack your wife ;)
Let's ask this guy
When my wife was pregnant (all three times) I wanted to get her alone a lot, but not to kill her. :)
It no doubt takes a cold bastard.
Indeed.
Good for him! This man deserves some kind of reward.
-ccm
A reward? For accepting money to kill someone's pregnant wife and then deciding against it? Does this mean that all people who do not commit murder for hire deserve rewards?
I don't either what is this world coming to?
See what happens when you use discount assassins? LOL!
I saw a bumoper sticker the other day that seems to fit here...
"I miss my EX alot... but with practice, my aim will improve."
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