I’ve seen it many times in true crime shows,
a man and a woman in love who plot to murder
the woman’s husband and go through with it,
and their bond is so unbreakable that they
are willing to kill and risk their freedom for it
until they get caught and the heat is on,
and they testify against each other with the
hope of getting lighter sentences.
Or, if miraculously lucky, one of them
succeeding at faking being an innocent
victim in the murder instead of a
co-conspirator and turning his or
her back on their homicidal act of
twisted and evil love with the
hope of avoiding a life sentence.
Usually these homicides are engineered
by the wife, who tells her paramour that
her husband his been physically abusive
to her or sexually abused their kids.
The duped male dumbed down by love
falls for the ploy and kills an innocent man
and gets jilted in court and goes to jail
for a murder and a counterfeit love.
I don’t know about you, but if I were with
a woman who suggested I kill her husband
for her despite whatever bait she dangled
in front of me, I’d bid that wicked woman
goodbye and be forever off the hook.
And were I a guy foolish enough to consider it,
I’d be thinking if she could have him killed,
I could be next, and I’d make damn sure
I didn’t have an insurance policy with
her as a beneficiary that would make me
worth far more ($$$$$$) dead than alive.
Bob Boyd