This is a tale of a woman being charged with masterminding a contract murder and spending three years in jail apparently for nothing. I say "apparently" because the case has never been solved but, as the narrator indicates, you'd have to be pretty dumb not to figure out the husband did it. He got away scot-free.
The story takes place in Phoenix, "the Dallas of the desert," as it's called here in this program. It has three million people and a lot of prosperity. It has tons of new folks arriving every day, and that's been going on for awhile. Hey, you can play golf all year and go skiing in the mountains. You have it all except beach-front property, as one resident says, "and that could happen some day with a big enough earthquake."
One of the people who came out West to Phoenix was Joyce Ross, who wound up marrying playboy Ron Lukezic. The story - in a nutshell - involves Ron and his business partner Patrick Redmond. The two disagreed on how to do their business and Patrick put the kibosh on a deal that would involve Las Vegas mobsters. Shortly thereafter, he was killed in his home. Three men were arrested but the major part of the story involves a mob squealer's story that claimed Joyce did the killing.
The fact that it took three trials and three years before she could finally get out of jail makes you shake your head in sympathy for the woman. Once the first trial started, her husband hightailed it back to New York City, leaving his wife and three step-kids behind. Nice guy, huh?
Anyway, it's another interesting show but a frustrating one because there is no closure to this case. Justice doesn't always occur in this life and this is one example, unless something happens in the future. The husband was the only one who could benefit from the killing, as it is pointed out in this "City Confidential" program. Heck, even the guy who lied his butt off hasn't been punished.
