Posted on 07/08/2008 2:29:36 PM PDT by STARWISE
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Lake in the Hills man charged with pufferfish toxin purchase had a $5 million life insurance policy on his wife, authorities say
Federal prosecutors also say she was the intended target in 2005, when her husband sought a hit man
A Lake in the Hills man arrested after ordering a deadly pufferfish toxin had a cache of weapons in his home and was named as the beneficiary of a $5 million life insurance policy on his wife, prosecutors said Monday.
Federal prosecutors also said that the wife, Rebecca Bachner, was the intended target in 2005, when her husband, Edward F. Bachner IV, sent out e-mails soliciting a hit man to carry out the "permanent retirement" of a 32-year-old woman.
Bachner, 35, was charged last week with the illegal possession of the deadly neurotoxin tetrodotoxin.
Federal prosecutors said the life insurance policy had a terrorism rider, which would pay Bachner an additional sum if his wife were killed by a terrorist act. Prosecutors declined to say when the policy was taken out.
At a U.S. District Court hearing in Rockford on Monday, U.S. Magistrate Judge P. Michael Mahoney called Bachner's behavior "unpredictable" and ordered that he be held without bail.
During searches of the couple's home that began with a June 30 raid, authorities found two passports—one of them expired—phony Central Intelligence Agency credentials and weapons that included a Glock 9 mm pistol, five garrotes and 50 knives, said Assistant U.S. Atty. Mark Karner.
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~~Ping!
The perp looks like a puffer!
“She doesn’t believe that he was in fact going to kill her,” Bachner’s lawyer, James Marcus, said after the hearing.”
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Jeeze, lady .. WAKE UP.
“Chairman Kaga, the fictional eccentric and flamboyant host of the cooking show Iron Chef, was said to have died of fugu poisoning after the regular run of the series ended. The Chairman was killed off partly because the actor portraying him, Kaga Takeshi, had prior commitments that prevented him from reprising his role in an Iron Chef special.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugu
But "unpredictable" behavior? There I draw the line.
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What kind of idiot insurance company wrote that policy? Mine called me and asked a lot of probing questions when my parents took out a million on my husband.
Give him a few more months in prison, and they'll start bulging out.
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They whacked Chairman Kaga???
>:(
This has the Ohta Faction written ALL OVER IT.
LOL
On a more serious note - you might well be correct.
LOL! What does he have to do? Stuff her posterior with Semtex with a visible fuse leading to him?
Daaaamn, was I wrong about this guy.
It reminds me of this...
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/terrorists/tylenol_murders/index.html
and this one...
Thirty-one-year old Joseph Meling was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for fatal product tampering after spiking Sudafed decongestants with cyanide. According to investigators, Meling attempted to murder his wife in February 1991 with the cyanide-laced capsules.
That same month, two more people died as a result of Meling’s tampering. As with the Excedrin poisonings, Meling filled other packages of Sudafed with cyanide and placed the drugs back on the shelves in stores to make it appear as if there was a serial poisoner on the rampage. The motivation was to claim $700,000 in insurance from her death.
Sounds like a definite possibility.
I can’t get over the idiocy of his wife.
Guess he should’ve tried scuba diving instead.
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