If you’re a lover of shows like “Law & Order” or the I.D. Channel, then this story is for you. It is true crime at its finest — and its scariest. Before we spill the beans, let me ask you this: do you trust your partner? Is the person that you share your bed with someone who you believe would never hurt you? As much as I love my husband, you best believe if I get any kind of paperwork that shows life insurance documents, I am certainly calling the cops. I have seen just about every true crime show and the first clue that your partner or lover is planning to end you is when they tell you to sign life insurance papers. It also can get messy when there’s a divorce involved, and if one or the other has more money. It always comes back to money. 

Puerto Rican boxing trainer Ramon Sosa found out his wife Maria de Lourdes Dorantes (Lulu) hired a hitman to murder him.

The 50-year-old former boxing pro turned gym entrepreneur said his marriage to Lulu lasted six years. She was his second wife, and Sosa had children from a previous marriage. He said that when she filed for divorce in 2015 she wanted to take all of his earnings, and as a business owner in Houston, Texas, there was a lot of money there. That’s when Lulu began accusing her soon-to-be ex-husband of being an abuser, of being lazy, of committing fraud. People around Sosa knew he wasn’t that kind of man. That’s when Lulu reached her boiling point and began talking about hiring a hitman to get rid of him. Lulu confided in a former criminal named Mundo and she told him everything. 

“I’m just tired. I’m frustrated,” Mundo recalls her saying, ESPN reported. “I wish he will leave. I wish the cops would pick him up. I just wish somebody will make him disappear.” Then Mundo asked her, “What do you mean ‘disappear’?” ESPN reported that Mundo “made a pistol sign with his fingers, and Lulu replied, ‘Yeah.'” Mundo ended up telling Sosa what his wife wanted to do but he didn’t believe him. 

After much consideration, Sosa wanted to catch her in the act and he had the help of the FBI and police. If she wanted him dead, he was willing to pretend as if her plan worked. Sosa had to first pretend as if he didn’t know his wife was planning to kill him.

“After the reality, it set in I became angry, sad and confused; a whole mix of emotions, each fighting the other to be the dominant feeling,” Sosa said in an interview with The Sun. “And then it hit me that I still had to live under the same roof with the person planning to have me murdered.” He added, “Yes, I slept with the enemy and with one eye open, all while trying to act as ‘normal’ as possible so Lulu would continue with her plan. Keep in mind, that was the only way we could catch her in the act.”

With the help of the authorities, Sosa literally acted as if he had been killed. They staged the scene, a grave dug in the dirt and there lay Sosa without a shirt and with fake blood on his face. His family and children also believed him to be dead as well. They couldn’t be in on the plan or else it could have failed. Sosa said that image of himself lying in the dirt still haunts him to this day. 

“It was chilling,” he told The Sun. “Utterly and indescribably chilling. That picture, to this day, reflects one of the most difficult things I have ever done in my life. The thought of me lying in a shallow grave in my underwear with a bullet hole through my temple is mind-boggling.”

In 2016, police had Lulu arrested where she will remain behind bars for 20 years. Sosa has written a self-published book about his insane ordeal and he is also a public speaker about survival.  

CBS News that Lulu finally plead guilty 15 months after being arrested. Sosa said there’s not a day that goes by that he is not reminded about what his former wife intended to do to him. “She … told Mundo that … when they kill me, to make sure to take my watch … That is why I wear it all the time now,” he said to CBS News. He adds that just like him, Lulu was a fighter too, “I stayed till the last minute of the last round, she had me on the ropes. And she had no idea that the whole time, I had a plan too.”

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Bruce Beresford-Redman was convicted of murdering his wife while on vacation in Mexico. Now, seven years later, the man convicted of the crims is free because of good behavior. The murder, which was committed in 2010 at a Cancun resort, shocked the nation and his behavior afterward was suspicious.

Bruce Beresford-Redman, a former producer for the reality TV show “Survivor,” is out of prison.

The American man was convicted of murdering his Brazilian wife, Monica Burgos. The couple was vacationing in Cancun with their two young children at a resort. Those who knew the couple said that the marriage was strained and the couple was showing signs of marital problems before the trip.

Beresford-Redman is living in southern California with his mother after seven years in prison.

Beresford-Redman was originally sentenced to 12 years in prison but time served in U.S. custody and good behavior shortened his sentence to a little more than half.

The case, which garnered international attention, took place at the same resort where the family was staying. Forensic scientists determined the cause of death to asphyxiation. When Beresford-Redman was arrested by Mexican authorities, he was released pending the trial and was told not to leave the country. However, reports say he used his driver’s license to enter the U.S. He was eventually apprehended by U.S. authorities and was extradited back to Mexico to face trial.

People on social media are angered by his release citing his access to money and privilege as how he was released so quickly.

It has been reported that the Mexican justice system took into account the amount of time Beresford-Redman spent in U.S. custody and his good behavior to release him. After his release, Beresford-Redman moved back to southern California and is living with his mother, Juanita, in Gardena, California.

Others are questioning why his sentence wasn’t more severe.

While Mexico does technically have a life sentence, however, in 2001, the Mexican Supreme Court that all life sentences must allow for parole after 50 years.

Overall, people on social media are angered that Beresford-Redman was released from prison so quickly.

What do you think about Beresford-Redman’s release?

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