This Houston Couple Hired A Hitman To Kill Their Exes, But Their Plan Completely Backfired
While the emotional pain that accompanies heartbreak is inevitable, even the most jaded of exes don’t anticipate that their former partners will splash some serious cash to put a bounty on their head.
Unfortunately for Meghan Verikas and Mack McDaniel however, their respective exes both harbored so much resentment for them that they paid for a hitman over $10,000 to carry out their murders.
While their former partners Leon Jacob and Valerie McDaniel thought that they were in the clear after ordering the hit, their crime took an expected turn when the true identity of the “hitman” proved to be much more than they bargained for.
Innocent?
Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Leon Jacobs still maintains that he did not intend for Verikas to be killed, or even injured.
“I’m innocent and as a human being and a physician, that thought of killing somebody else is, just goes against everything in my nature,” he said to CBS News. If convicted, Jacob faces a possible prison sentence of life with no chance of parole.
Unexpected Tragedy
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After being arrested for her involvement in the attempted murder of her ex-husband, McDaniel was released on a $50,000 bond. Just one day before she was due to appear in court, McDaniel jumped to her death from the balcony of her seventh floor condo.
Unsurprisingly, Jacob’s request to attend his late girlfriend’s funeral was denied by the court.
Carjacking Gone Wrong
The undercover police officer-turned-fake hitman also staged a photo to make McDaniel believe that her husband was shot dead. “The whole ordeal was beyond imaginable,” said McDaniel’s ex-husband.
“If they would have been successful, Natalie [McDaniels’ daughter] would have not had any parents.”
Faking A Death
After Jacob and McDaniel commissioned the hit, officers reached out Verikas to inform her of the price put on her head.
In order to trick Jacob into thinking that the hit was actually carried out, law enforcement staged photos of Verikas with her hands and feet bound.
“I sat in a chair in a warehouse and they zip-tied my hands and my feet and put duct tape around my mouth to make me look as if I had been kidnapped,” Verikas testified in court.