"GEORGETOWN, Texas - Molly Daniels spent weeks surfing the Internet, gathering information for a bizarre and grisly plot of deception. She learned how to burn a human body beyond recognition. She sought clues on ways to deceive arson investigators, and took meticulous steps to create a new identity for her husband. Daniels then dug up a woman's corpse, staged a fiery car accident to fake her husband's death, and had him re-emerge as her new boyfriend. Authorities say it was all to collect a $110,000 life insurance policy while hiding her husband, Clayton Daniels, from the cops."
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Although, I suppose, nothing brings a couple together like planning a faked death... Could really put the spark back in their relationship, I suppose. Light a few fires, so to speak.
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'Cause, ya know, it's really important to keep someone who's plead guilty to sexual assult around you and your children. Definitely the best possible environment, yep.
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And the poor old 81 year old woman. Of course she did have anyone to mourn her, she was old! Dig 'er up!
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But why a woman's corpse? That's what I can't figure out. You'd think that if she'd go to that much trouble, she'd find a man's body somewhere.
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quote: Molly Daniels, 22, insisted the plan wasn't motivated by greed, but rather was a desperate attempt to keep her husband out of prison stemming from a sexual assault charge.
"It was about keeping our family together," she tearfully told jurors.
I love how she expects the family to stay together perfectly when the husband admits to having committed sexual assault.
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Oh, come on people. Can we all truly say that we've never used a corpse to fake the death of a loved one in order to receive the massive insurance payback? Let he who hath not sinned...
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Well, yeah, but most of us at least waited a month or so and moved to a new town before introducing our “dead” spouse as our new boyfriend. I mean really, how stupid did she think the police/insurance investigators/neighbors were?
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I don't know why you question the logic of someone who's willing to go through with something like this of trying to keep her sex predator husband. Seems to follow a consistent line of thought, in my opinion.
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If Elmore Leonard had written this storyline into a book, somebody would have reviewed it: "Leonard has lost his grip on reality in his effort to be funny and clever." Because of course things like this can ONLY happen in the real world.
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