A God-fearing ex-con has saved a sex-crazed
lawyer from certain death at the hands (or paws) of an imaginary evil cat.
Confused? You should be.
The Associated Press reports that federal
police in the USA
were tipped off by a conscientious killer on parole who said a "friend" of his
planned to extort and electrocute a lawyer - and then blame the killing on the
victim's cat.
Brett Nash was busted earlier this week for
plotting to kill an Illinois-based lawyer who had apparently been pursuing
Nash's wife for sex.
According to an affidavit sworn in the case,
Nash's evil plan involved forcing the lawyer into a bath and then throwing a
radio into the water.
The ingenious part of the plan - which no investigator
would ever have figured out - was the planting of conspicuously scattered kitty
litter next to the bath, leading straight to the guilty paws of the lawyer's
cat.
Unfortunately for Nash, the evil plot never
got off the ground and Nash was picked up shortly before the crime was supposed
to have taken place. He was charged with attempted extortion.
Authorities were alerted to the plot after
Nash enlisted an acquaintance for help, and the acquaintance - saying that he
had "found God" and obviously not wanting to see an innocent feline behind bars
- told his parole officer the next day.
Nash had apparently planned to force the unfortunate
lawyer to withdraw substantial amounts of cash from a bank and then kill him in
a way that appeared accidental.
Nash apparently told the accomplice he was
inspired by a TV show in which the victim believed he was wired with explosives
while he emptied his bank account (the cat bit he made up all by himself!).
After the tip-off from the would-be
accomplice, Nash's house was searched with the police finding drawings of the
intended victim's home, a backpack containing a ski mask, handcuffs, a pellet
gun, black socks and gloves, a torch, a plastic bag and black hair dye.
This would have made for an awesome episode of CSI ...
