This is starting to remind me of the murder of a young woman who went to my college (not my class, but I overlapped with her). Her husband had supposedly built a successful medical supplies business, in which all his and her relatives had "invested". The charade had been going for years, while she finished law school, practiced law full time for a few years, had a baby and cut back to working part time. They lived in a nice big house near the college, largely financed by the phony investments.
Just when the whole house of cards was about to collapse on him, he drowned her in the bathtub in their home (while their one year old daughter was in the house) and made up a story about an intruder doing it. Turned out there had never been even the tiniest medical supply business, and he'd been spending all the money on call girls and topless dancers. And naturally, there was a sizeable life insurance policy on the wife. He's now locked up for life, and the little girl is being raised jointly by the two sets of grandparents.
I remember that guy. What a creep. Wasn't that outside Philly?