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Financially Motivated Murder in Palm Springs: B-movie plot come to life

Link to: Sentencing delayed for two convicted of financially motivated murder

Jay Calderon / The Desert Sun

This story is almost too delicious to be happening in the dimension we all share – except for the fact that it involves a real-life murder, with a real dead man whose body has never been found.

Like with the O.J. story – it’s awfully hard as a fiction writer to even imagine that you could come up with something so …. insanely good. The older, rich and lonely gay man who craves attention from younger, slick guys who initially appear to be the answer to all his dreams…. their “vulture” confederates, a conman (who claimed to be Nepalese royalty) and the older man with the legal background to mastermind the crime …. the cynical authorities… the neighbors who saw nothing, then remembered something… finally the jailhouse “rat” and as witness, the vast expanse of desert wildness holding the secret under its scorched covering.

As much as I truly admire the absolute grandiosity of such a scheme – purely for the story elements and their effect – I’m always amazed in real life that people who plan such “perfect murders” ever hope to get away with them. Didn’t they see enough movies to know that the more people you have involved in such a plot, the more likely – the absolute certainty – is that someone is going to feel they get shafted and then rat out the rest of the vermin?

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