Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Murder for Money

This ranks up at the top of motives for murder. If you know of any recent, old, or unsolved murders where the motive was money, please post your comments.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Australia in the 60's. One case that shocked the nation. A family wins the lottery of $100,00AU. A photo of the father holding up the winning ticket is printed in the paper for everyone to see. One man sees this as an opportunity and kidnaps the family's son, who had been watched for 3 or more days, and kills him, dumping his rug-wrapped body under a large log. All so that he can ring from a telephone booth and ask for $25,000. If not he threatens to "feed the kid to the sharks". Truly chilling.