Freddy was rich, but he wanted to get richer.
His business partners got in the way, so he got them out of the way.
Freddy’s lawyer got the sentence knocked down from twenty years to five.
But it didn’t matter. A guard beat Freddy to death in the first week.
The insurance company refused to pay out Freddy’s life insurance.
Freddy’s wife used Freddy’s lawyer to sue to the insurance company. And the government.
She’d already been talking to him about divorcing Freddy, but now, she got the best of both worlds:
Freddy gone, and a whole lot of money.