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manufactured the machine, had all quietly consented to a very large settlement. Ryan’s family would be wealthy, but it was small consolation to them for his loss.
The life insurance company paid off the $750,000 to Alice, as well as the $1.5 million policy to Daniel Shaw, whom Ryan had never met nor heard of.
If one wants to hire a murderer, prisons are a great place to start. Especially maximum security prisons; when mining for murderers that’s pretty much the mother lode.
The key is to find someone with expertise and experience; MIT has the engineers, Vegas the gamblers, Manhattan the great pizza makers. But if a headhunter is looking to hire a literal “headhunter,” a maximum security prison is the place.
If you throw a dart in a maximum security prison, you’ll most likely hit a murderer, though that would probably not be the wisest thing to do. Ray Hennessey didn’t have to throw a dart; all he had to do was put out the word that $100,000 was up for grabs.
The fact that the killers in prison by definition had previously gotten caught meant nothing to Hennessey. Whether his hired killer was apprehended after killing Sheryl Harrison was of no concern to him, and likely wouldn’t be to the killer either.
New Jersey’s lack of a death penalty was the reason for that. Many of the convicted murderers were already put away for the rest of their natural lives. So since they couldn’t be put to death, or sent away for any longer than they already were, why would another conviction be of concern?
Money always talked, even behind the prison walls. Not only could it buy perks on the inside, many of these people had families on the outside, and being able to provide them with substantial cash was very appealing.
So once Hennessey put the word out that he was looking for someone on the inside to kill Sheryl Harrison, he had a wide array of possibilities to choose from. Since it was a women’s prison, they were all women, which was not something that Hennessey was used to.
The person he chose came highly recommended both for her ruthlessness and for her discretion. Even though Hennessey’s identity remained a secret from her, if she were caught she would still reveal nothing about the facts behind her hiring.
But none of that mattered. He had arranged for Sheryl Harrison to be murdered. It was to take place in the prison laundry, where she worked, but on the appointed day she didn’t show up for her shift. The killer made inquiries, and learned that she had been moved to suicide watch.
That meant that she would be isolated from the other prisoners and carefully guarded twenty-four hours a day, with constant camera surveillance. Under those circumstances, she simply could not be gotten to, not even by someone willing to reveal their identity for the chance to make the kill.
The word was passed to Hennessey by his hired killer, who could not accomplish the job because of the suicide watch.
Sheryl Harrison, the inmate who wanted to die, could not be killed.
Terry Aimonetti was cooking, which had lately become a delicate balancing act.
Terry was one of those instinctively great cooks. No matter what was lying around in the refrigerator, she could make a uniquely wonderful meal out of it. She was an artist, and she generally loved practicing her art.
But she had been trying to balance two conflicting needs, and it was a struggle. Karen’s appetite had waned; the weaker she became the less interest she had in eating. Since she had always loved Terry’s cooking, it fell to Karen’s grandmother to make special dishes that would overcome her lack of appetite and get her to eat.
But also as Karen became more ill, her doctors kept making her diet progressively more strict. No spices, no seasonings, nothing that Terry ordinarily used to work her magic. With so few weapons at her disposal, making something that Karen would be anxious to eat became a near impossible task, but that didn’t stop Terry from
The life insurance company paid off the $750,000 to Alice, as well as the $1.5 million policy to Daniel Shaw, whom Ryan had never met nor heard of.
If one wants to hire a murderer, prisons are a great place to start. Especially maximum security prisons; when mining for murderers that’s pretty much the mother lode.
The key is to find someone with expertise and experience; MIT has the engineers, Vegas the gamblers, Manhattan the great pizza makers. But if a headhunter is looking to hire a literal “headhunter,” a maximum security prison is the place.
If you throw a dart in a maximum security prison, you’ll most likely hit a murderer, though that would probably not be the wisest thing to do. Ray Hennessey didn’t have to throw a dart; all he had to do was put out the word that $100,000 was up for grabs.
The fact that the killers in prison by definition had previously gotten caught meant nothing to Hennessey. Whether his hired killer was apprehended after killing Sheryl Harrison was of no concern to him, and likely wouldn’t be to the killer either.
New Jersey’s lack of a death penalty was the reason for that. Many of the convicted murderers were already put away for the rest of their natural lives. So since they couldn’t be put to death, or sent away for any longer than they already were, why would another conviction be of concern?
Money always talked, even behind the prison walls. Not only could it buy perks on the inside, many of these people had families on the outside, and being able to provide them with substantial cash was very appealing.
So once Hennessey put the word out that he was looking for someone on the inside to kill Sheryl Harrison, he had a wide array of possibilities to choose from. Since it was a women’s prison, they were all women, which was not something that Hennessey was used to.
The person he chose came highly recommended both for her ruthlessness and for her discretion. Even though Hennessey’s identity remained a secret from her, if she were caught she would still reveal nothing about the facts behind her hiring.
But none of that mattered. He had arranged for Sheryl Harrison to be murdered. It was to take place in the prison laundry, where she worked, but on the appointed day she didn’t show up for her shift. The killer made inquiries, and learned that she had been moved to suicide watch.
That meant that she would be isolated from the other prisoners and carefully guarded twenty-four hours a day, with constant camera surveillance. Under those circumstances, she simply could not be gotten to, not even by someone willing to reveal their identity for the chance to make the kill.
The word was passed to Hennessey by his hired killer, who could not accomplish the job because of the suicide watch.
Sheryl Harrison, the inmate who wanted to die, could not be killed.
Terry Aimonetti was cooking, which had lately become a delicate balancing act.
Terry was one of those instinctively great cooks. No matter what was lying around in the refrigerator, she could make a uniquely wonderful meal out of it. She was an artist, and she generally loved practicing her art.
But she had been trying to balance two conflicting needs, and it was a struggle. Karen’s appetite had waned; the weaker she became the less interest she had in eating. Since she had always loved Terry’s cooking, it fell to Karen’s grandmother to make special dishes that would overcome her lack of appetite and get her to eat.
But also as Karen became more ill, her doctors kept making her diet progressively more strict. No spices, no seasonings, nothing that Terry ordinarily used to work her magic. With so few weapons at her disposal, making something that Karen would be anxious to eat became a near impossible task, but that didn’t stop Terry from
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