In 1990, ex-cop and bodybuilder Tim Todd was looking for a hitman to kill his wife Patti. She had thrown him out of the house for having an affair with a teenager. For help, he turned to his boss, Bill Pagano, who was also his best friend, mentor, and the father of the girl he was having an affair with. Bill, who was the former police chief and the richest man in Festus, Missouri, recorded the conversations and confided in the county prosecutor. At that point, Tim had not committed a crime by talking about the hit for hire, but if Bill could arrange a transfer of money for that purpose, that would be evidence of a crime. Bill facilitated a money transfer, and then arranged to meet Tim at his house, where he planned to arrest him.
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However, the meeting did not go as planned. Tim was dead, shot in the head twice. Both the prosecutor and the town’s medical examiner knew of the meeting ahead of time, and to them it was surely a case of self-defense. Everyone knew that Tim was taking anabolic steroids and had some crazy episodes in his past. But the prosecutor recused himself from the case and brought in two investigators from Cape Girardeau to look into Tim’s death. They determined that the first shot was to the back of Tim’s head, so how could it have been self defense? As they looked further into everyone involved in the case, they uncovered a web of connections, crimes, and coverups in Festus. Read a full account of this strange murder in a small town at Truly Adventurous.
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