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posted 9 years ago by cashmccall
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Is hiring someone to kill you to collect insurance money suicide? Is it also murder?

If the insurance company finds out a killer was hired by the insured to kill the insured, do the people who are hurt by this, and are beneficiaries, the family, denied the money?

If a killer is suspected and caught, does his word that he was hired by the insured to kill the insured, count for anything? In other words, how can anyone prove the killer is telling the truth? Therefore, if the truth is never found, just suspected, does the insurance company have to pay?

Finally, has there ever been a single recorded case where a mother paid a hit man to kill her so the insurance money would be paid to her children? I know I've never heard or read of such a case. Is it possible that this has never happened in recorded history? I think it has not because no one would ever want to die and leave their children motherless.

[–] HOKfilms 9 years ago

Due to our great legal system and this being america and all... here's how it would play out if the truth was revealed.

The insurance company would not have to pay out because it was a conspiracy between the claimant and the killer. Plus it would constitute as fraud.

The killer would go to jail for a type of murder because paying somebody to kill you is not legal grounds to absolve killer.

Kevorkian had to go to trial even though the patients pretty much hired him to assist them.

She woulda been better off driving off a cliff.

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[–] steelysunshine 9 years ago

The whole make a suicide look like a murder bit is convoluted as well. Just have the guy come over and off you then it's a murder that looks like a murder. It isn't easy to make a suicide look like murder. Not that I have tried to do that. But a murder looks one way and a suicide looks another.

And I wondered the same thing. What would happen now. It's not like Libby could pay that money back nor could her aunt and neither of them knew what was going on, plus it's a couple decades later is there a statute of limitations on an insurance company getting money back? I dunno, but that is a twisted thing to do in any case.

I don't know about whether it's plausible or not for anyone to do this. I suppose if someone did it they would be more likely to just have someone kill them and there would be no proof that it was a conspiracy between the deceased and the killer. So, how would we know if it happened or not?