“...a good friend of my husband’s who was judge and his wife were murdered, but not by a vengeful criminal, but by a hitman hired by their supposedly good friend, ex law-partner and the mayor of the city too”
HOLY SMOKES! That’s right out of TV show. Why were they killed? Very sad, may they rest in peace and I take it from how you tell it that the perp. was brought to justice.
I don’t really know why they were killed, the official version, IIRC, is that the judge had supposedly skimmed some money from their mutual account from a prison scam or something like that, and it was payback, or example, or the like. I don’t know what the real truth was, I don’t know if anyone except whoever was truly involved knows. We still wonder, and we still wonder who really did it.
Oh, and it was on teevee, on “City Confidential”, some many years ago. It happened in 1991.