Evil Doctor Hires a Biker Gang To Murder His Wife - The James Kauffman story

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Narrator 0:00

So this guy, his name's James. And James is like the coolest old guy you've ever heard of. I mean, he's 63, he's a doctor, he's also an ex-Green Beret who fought in Vietnam and saved a bunch of people. So he's like a war hero. And if that isn't cool enough, he's also really into motorcycles. Yeah, he's one of those guys. But one day in 2011, it all changes. Because he meets this guy, Ferdinand. And Ferdinand happens to be the head of a local chapter of the Pagan Motorcycle Club, which is like a well-known outlaw motorcycle gang. And they're supposedly bad news. But despite that, James and Ferdinand bond over their love of motorcycles and stuff. And at one point, one of them comes up with this crazy idea. They want to go into business together.

Narrator 0:47

And since James is a doctor, they decide they're going to set up a drug ring to sell painkillers, Oxycontin. Specifically, their plan is for Ferdinand to send drug users to James' office pretending to be his patients. And these fake patients will then pay James some money for the visit or their insurance will cover it. Then James will write them a large prescription for Oxycontin and the fake patients will then go back to Ferdinand and give him his cut. And so they do this little scheme and it works and it works really well. And suddenly they're both making a ton of extra money and no one suspects a thing because James is like this cool old guy and he's a respected physician and no one's going to assume he's doing this. Except... for one person. One person gets really suspicious of James. And that person is this nice woman, April. April's 47 and she's James's wife.

Narrator 1:41

Not only that, she's also a popular on-air host at the local radio station. And she's known to be very outspoken. I love being here to bring you the truth. As unvarnished, as unpretty, unbuttered on the biscuit it is. Now, we don't exactly know how, but at some point, April starts getting suspicious of some of the things James is up to. And she discovers that he is a big part of this motorcycle gang, Oxy Drug Ring. And if that isn't bad enough, she also discovers that he's a big liar. And that he's made up a bunch of stuff about his past. Like he was never a Green Beret. He never fought in Vietnam. He never rescued a bunch of people. He lied about his service and all his military tattoos and medals and his Green Beret stories.

Narrator 2:25

They were all made up to make him sound like a cool guy. and so april finds all this out and she's devastated like how could he lie to me about all those things and she has had enough and she's like i'm done i want out of this relationship he is no longer foreign but james he isn't ready to get divorced and so they fight about it and i guess he isn't gonna grant her the divorce which is just gonna make the whole process way more difficult than it needs to be and april's like if you don't grant me this divorce i'm going to tell everyone that you lied about being a green beret in vietnam and that you're involved in a drug ring with the pagan motorcycle gang but here's the thing her threatening to tell everyone is a big deal because she's a popular on-air radio host in that area she's also very well known for having a lot of opinions and at any time she could jump on the mic and ruin james's whole reputation

Narrator 3:12

And obviously James can't have that. And he's like, if you tell anybody, I'll go nuclear on this family. But April's like, whatever, you're all talk. And while James acts all hardcore, deep down, he's super worried about her telling on him. And so he comes up with a plan to make sure she doesn't do that. He's gonna hire a hitman. And so he goes to Ferdinand and he's like, can you help me find someone to unalive my wife? And Ferdinand's like... Hi. And they end up hiring a hitman. And the hitman they hire is this guy, who we'll just call Hitman. Now, Hitman is also a member of the Pagan Motorcycle Club, and he agrees to do this hit for $20,000. And so the plan is all set. And on the day it's supposed to go down, James leaves his house for work like he normally does. But this time, he makes sure to leave one of the doors unlocked. While April, she's still at home, and she has no idea what's coming.