One correspondent shares her experience covering an Eastlake crime story with 3News. Author: Andrew Horansky Updated: 11:27 PM EST December 17, 2020
EASTLAKE, Ohio Dateline Correspondent Andrea Canning shared a secret with the country Thursday night.
The secret, Canning says, involved a family from Eastlake who looked perfect on the outside, but on the inside was crumbling.
“This caught our attention because of the trap I guess you could call it that was laid in this murder for hire plot,” Canning told 3News. It involved two old friends, Pat Sabo and Christine Metter, who wanted her ex and the father of their four children, to be murdered nearly ten years ago.
The new episode airs on Channel 3 Thursday evening. Author: Andrew Horansky Updated: 10:55 AM EST December 17, 2020
EASTLAKE, Ohio Some stories are just meant for “Dateline.”
This one unfolded out of Eastlake nearly ten years ago, when 41-year-old Christine Metter went on Facebook to complain that her ex-husband, David Metter, was abusive during their marriage. Metter s friend, Patrick Sabo of Lake County, joked that she should hire a hitman.
Authorities say Metter took the joke seriously and that she and her father, 77-year-old Al Zombory, met with Sabo at a Lake County restaurant and gave him $3,000 to find someone to do the job.