He hired 2 men to kidnap his wife. They ended up drowning.
Lawrence Handley, 53, a business executive from Lafayette, Louisiana, pleaded guilty this week to three criminal charges after a plot to kidnap his estranged wife went badly awry.
By Michael Levenson, New York Times Service
July 30, 2021 | 4:35 PM
– Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office via The New York Times
Schanda Handley was at home with her daughter and a neighbor when two men showed up at the door, dressed in what looked like blue uniforms from an appliance store.
They had a carpet steamer and asked Handley if they could demonstrate it for her. When she said no, the men forced their way into her house at gunpoint, put a hood over her head and handcuffed her and her neighbor, she said.