The Diaper-Wearing Murdering Lawyer - The Andrew and Alecia Schmuhl Story
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What led Andrew Schmuhl to commit a violent crime?
So this guy, wearing nothing but an adult diaper, just tried to commit murder. Why? Now the guy's name is Andrew, and Andrew's 27 when this story starts, and he's living in Virginia. And Andrew, he's a smart guy. He's actually an attorney for the US Army, and you know, he's doing well for himself. But then one day, in 2010, something terrible happens. He's out doing some physical training in the military when suddenly he slips on a patch of ice and boom, he injures his spine. And when he's at the hospital, the doctor prescribes him multiple painkillers. Now, while these drugs are supposed to help, ultimately his back pain never really stops. So he keeps taking them. And over time, he becomes addicted.
And then years go by. And it's now 2014. And Andrew, he's still hurting. I mean, he barely leaves the house at this point. He's living on disability and getting about $1,000 a month to live on. So most of the financial weight falls on his wife. This woman, Alicia. And Alicia is 26, and she's also a lawyer working at a law firm. And so now that he's injured and on pills, she's the one paying most of the bills and keeping everything together, and this is stressful. So over time, all this extra stress starts to get to her, and she's missing meetings and deadlines, and her own boss starts coming down on her. So things are going bad for both her and Andrew. And at one point, they decide to apply for a mortgage.
The problem with that is that Andrew is living on disability checks right now. And he and Alicia want to make him look employed so that they have a better chance of getting approved. So they decide to lie to the bank and list Andrew as an employee at her law firm. And this actually works. The bank believes them and they get the loan. However, unfortunately for them, Alicia's boss finds out. This guy, Leo. And Leo, he's upset about this. I mean, he runs part of that firm. So he tells her that what she just did was actually mortgage fraud. But because he thinks she's a great employee, he doesn't actually want to fire her. So rather, he sends her home while he decides how to handle this. So Alicia goes home and she explains everything to Andrew.
And immediately Andrew is pissed. Like how dare Leo say what they're doing is mortgage fraud. The audacity. So the next day both Andrew and Alicia go to the law office and they confront Leo. And Andrew's all yelling about how they weren't trying to commit any mortgage fraud. And Leo tells Andrew to step outside so that he can talk to Alicia alone. But Andrew, he doesn't want to step outside. He wants to stay and argue. Until Alicia calms him down and she tells him to leave the office. So Leo, being the nice boss that he is, he talks to Alicia alone and he still doesn't fire her. Now regardless of all this drama, Andrew and Alicia's situation still doesn't get better. Andrew's health keeps declining, and he develops kidney stones, and he has to be taken to the ER, and I assume Alicia stays right there with him helping him get through it.
And on top of all that, they're apparently having money problems. And this and everything else in her life just puts Alicia even further behind at work. And that is when her boss Leo finally decides that he's had enough. And he fires Alicia. And he pays her severance. Now, here's where the story actually gets dark. Both Andrew and Alicia are super pissed about her getting fired, and they are not about to let this slide. And that is when they come up with a plan to file a lawsuit against the firm that she works for, specifically an employment discrimination lawsuit. And if they win this lawsuit, they believe that they'll make a ton of money from it, way more than they ever would from any severance pay.
Here's the thing about that, though. I guess to win this lawsuit, they feel like they need some internal documents and other information that they currently don't have access to because they don't have the company passwords and such. So they start thinking, what if we could break into Leo's house and torture the information and passwords out of him?
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