Wednesday, February 15, 2017

UNDER ARREST FOR FELONY STUPIDITY

by Bob Walsh

OK, technically the guy wasn't actually arrested for felony stupidity. If there was such a crime on the books he could have been however.

Jeff Lytle, 42, of Snowhomish County, Washington, is currently as guest of the county, pending a $1 million bail. At some point he decided it would be a good thing to hire a killer to snuff his wife and daughter out. He (allegedly) made contact with a man named "Shayne" was going to do the deed for a 50-50 split of the $1.5 million in insurance on the wife and the 4-year old daughter.

Unfortunately for Lytle not only was he enough to a dumb bastard to handle much of the detail over the internet when he finally sent the go-ahead email he sent it to the wrong person. It went to Lytle's former boss, who promptly forwarded it to the local constabulary.

Lytle denies that there is in fact any such person as Shayne and denies having any contact with a killer for hire. He at first denied even sending the emails but clearly he couldn't keep that up for long. He said the emails were part of a venting process and that there was no actual intent for anybody to kill anybody. The email was never supposed to actually be sent to anybody. It might even be true. The cops have not yet managed to connect the email to an actual person.

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