TN Man Denied New Trial After Convicted of Killing Wife

In February, lawyers stated that Dale Larkin killed his wife, Teri Larkin, back in November of 2003 in a bathtub. He was apparently trying to obtain her life insurance payout. The jury believed them. According to an article on TriCities.com from when the trial took place four months ago, on February...

June 6th, 2011 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

Insurance-Scam-Turned-Murder Perpetrators Sentenced

Two New Orleans men and one Detroit man received extensive prison sentences this week. They were sentenced due to their roles in an insurance scheme that led to a murder back in 2004. According to Nola.com, the New Orleans man, David Samuels, is the supposed ringleader for the operation, which consisted...

May 31st, 2011 | Insurance Fraud, s | Read More

Marine Charged with Murder-for-Hire Scheme

Movies sometimes focus around murder-for-hire schemes. When it happens in real life however, it’s just plain sad. Samuel Alexander Wilson, a Camp Pendleton Marine from Ohio, was arrested for what prosecutors are describing as a murder-for-hire plot that ended in the shooting death of his 20-year-old...

May 4th, 2011 | 4, Scandalous Schemes | Read More

Indiana Woman Found Guilty of Insurance Fraud and Murder

Tami Duvall was accused of murdering her husband back in August of 2007 by poisoning his dessert with morphine and muscle relaxants. The jury in her trial began deliberating at about 9am yesterday morning, the 10th day of the trial, after hearing final instructions from the judge. Six hours later they...

April 21st, 2011 | s, Scandalous Schemes | Read More

Fraud Felon Silvi Wants Father’s “Murderer” Found

Nearly three years ago, it was said that William Silvi murdered his father, William Marcucci, in Saddle Brook, New Jersey. He was acquitted in the murder trial last month, but he says that the real murderer is still at large and investigators still have a job to do. As mentioned previously in The Fraud...

March 30th, 2011 | Scandalous Schemes | Read More

CO Man Aquitted on Murder Charges, Gets Time for Fraud

A Colorado Springs man is in trouble with the law again; this time for attempting to collect life-insurance after the shooting death of his father two years ago. Did we mention that he was the one on trial for his father’s murder? According to The Record, in December, William Silvi was acquitted in...

February 28th, 2011 | 2, Scandalous Schemes | Read More

Father Hires Killer To Keep Son Quiet About Insurance Scheme

Squalid details of drugs, sexual affairs and insurance fraud emerged when 27-year-old Dominick Harriman took the stand and accused his father, of hiring a masked hit man to murder him. According to The Las Vegas Review Journal, Keith Harriman, 48, was arrested last month for an alleged murder-for-hire...

February 3rd, 2011 | s, Scandalous Schemes | Read More

Shocking Murder For Insurance Scheme Ends With 3 Convictions

After deliberating for nearly 12 hours, a federal jury convicted David Samuels, Charles Moss and Jermaine Surtain for their roles in several insurance fraud schemes including one murder-plot carried out on a man for his insurance benefits according to The New Orleans Net. “The Samuels siblings and...

January 25th, 2011 | s, Scandalous Schemes | Read More

Sex, Lies, Murder for Insurance…

From what can only be described as something straight out of a movie, the federal government began it’s prosecution of case against former lovers, family members and other accomplices tangled in a complex web of conspiracy, insurance fraud, arson and murder. Assistant US Attorney, Bill McSherry, broke...

January 18th, 2011 | 2, Scandalous Schemes | Read More

Son Charged With Killing Mother For Life Insurance

A University of Wisconsin student was arrested Monday for allegedly murdering his mother for life insurance benefits. According to The Badger Herald, Chase Boruch, a junior at the University of Wisconsin, was arrested Monday for allegedly killing his 63-year-old mother after she took out multiple life...

December 2nd, 2010 | s, Scandalous Schemes | Read More

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