Uloma Walker-Curry had been married for only four months when she decided that her husband was worth more dead than alive.
William Walker, a 45-year-old Cleveland fire lieutenant, was returning to his home on Lampson Road with takeout on the night of November 3, 2013, when someone ambushed him at the entrance and shot him four times.
Behind the plan was his own wife: drowning in debt, she asked her 17-year-old daughter and her boyfriend to find someone to kill him. She paid 1.000 dollars upfront. The boyfriend recruited his cousin, the cousin recruited another man, and that man was the one who ultimately pulled the trigger.
The goal was to collect the 100.000 dollars from William’s life insurance. But he had never changed his beneficiary: the money ended up in the hands of his ex-wife.
The four accomplices confessed and testified against Walker-Curry, who in July 2017 was found guilty of aggravated murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole.