Harvey Guillén

How Joe met Ron for dinner at Ron's house, how Jim came over for dessert, how they forced Ron to write the check, handcuffed him, made him lay face down on his bed, then shot him in the head before burying his body in a grave Jim dug earlier that day.

And imagine being Dean.

You don't want to hear any of this, especially not in the great detail that includes Joe imitating the gurgling sounds of Ron's dying breath.

And then you have to weigh in the fact that you are now complicit in murder, one that you didn't have a direct hand in but do benefit from because that $1.5 million will fix a lot of problems.

And now imagine doing everything you can to cash that check as fast as humanly possible, only to find out it bounces.

That Ron Levin is actually having the last laugh from beyond the grave.

Well, what do you do if you're Dean and Joe?

Well, easy.

You plan to kidnap and torture an Iranian millionaire.

Investing is all about risk assessment.

And for Joe Hunt, so is murder.

For him, killing Ron Levin was a risk worth taking because he doesn't see a world where an investigation leads back to him.

And in a way, his assumption is correct.

At the time of his murder, Ron was under a criminal indictment for fraudulent business practices.

He was almost certainly going to prison for up to seven years.

So Joe bet that if Ron went missing, police would assume he flew the coop.

that he disappeared on purpose.

And he's kinda right.

The next day, two young men show up at Ron's house.

They're expecting Ron to take them on a trip to New York, like he promised.