Hubby: It was my wife's fault I tried to have her killed

[Gman]

A former Marine convicted of trying to contract his wife's murder says he deserves a light sentence because she squandered his money and wouldn't give him sex, dinner or clean laundry.
``Like an ivory tower princess, her delusional attitude seemed to be that it was my duty, my obligation, my purpose, alone, to work off these debts she created,'' Harold Stonier said in a 50-page filing in federal court in Boston, seeking leniency as he awaits sentencing.
Stonier, who was caught on tape plotting various scenarios for his wife's murder, called her a ``spiteful, conniving, vengeful lunatic who creates her own distortion of reality.'' He claimed his wife deprived him of basic comforts such as laundry and marital intimacy, ignored his demands to prepare weekly menus for his approval, and played the TV loud in their bedroom at night, forcing him to watch the women-oriented ``Oxygen Channel.''

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=91072

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There's not a lot you can say in comment about this guy. I just wonder what his family life was like. He's probably a fundie.

[truthisfreedom]

1. brainwash a man into becoming a killing machine, and then forget to turn

off the switch when you send him home? recipie for disaster.

[htuttle]

2. He must think he's in Pakistan

[La Lioness Priyanka]

45. ohh whatever,....cos clearly the western world has NO sexists

:sarcasm:

[whistle]

3. Sounds like this marine has been inculcated with the relgious...

...right wing teachings of......Islam or Old Testament Christianity.

[Spinzonner]

4. Lack of Laundry, Intimacy, and Cooking do not justify murder

but the "Oxygen Channel" is just going too far.

[ET Awful]

11. I was going to say something like that but didn't want to get

drawn and quartered :).

[Spinzonner]

17. Well, fools rush in

[Boomer]

19. Speaking as a woman...

...I'd have to be tied down and drugged to watch that channel.

[ET Awful]

20. I work with a woman, who otherwise is a pretty cool lady, but every

morning, she talks about what movie she watch last night on "Lifetime for Women".

It's all I can do to keep from screaming at her.

I'm sorry, but if a movie has Meredith Baxter Birney in it, it's NOT a good movie. PERIOD. No exceptions.

[peacefreak]

22. Oh my, that's a little harsh.

I mean "The Betty Broderick Story" is high art. OK, high camp. :evilgrin: ;-)

[bleedingheart]

24. I enjoyed that one...it was a full fledged trainwreck of a movie...

[Lerkfish]

29. do you have to pay extra for that?

is it cheaper if you're just tied down, without the drugs?

;)

[okieinpain]

42. uh, if she made me watch the oxygen channel I'd have to kill her too.

[CatWoman]

30. She should have had HIM killed

just for demanding weekly menus.

[ET Awful]

32. Hehehe, I don't know, I'd say that

Demanding weekly menus just serves to cancel out forcing to watch Oxygen.


Maybe they should've just killed each other? :evilgrin:

[fudge stripe cookays]

5. "Prepare WEEKLY menus for his approval?"

My husband knows he might see me make dinner, twice, three times a week TOPS.

Less, now that I'm sick.

Fuck this asshole.
FSC

[Iris]

21. I wonder if those menus included breakfast and lunch as well.

He'd probably want some of those little fake fruity Pooh Snacks or Jell-o pudding in his lunch!

[JerseygirlCT]

27. Yeah, obviously this woman has been abused for quite

some time. I mean that sincerely. Any man that demanding of control sends off all sorts of warning signals.

[FlaGranny]

31. Ha, ha, ha!

My husband very, very occasionally asks "what's for supper?" He usually gets "I haven't thought about it yet." I usually make dinner according to how much work I feel like doing that day. Whenever we go out to eat, he gets to pick where we go. I told him he deserves that, because he eats whatever I decide to make him the rest of the week. He knows he'd be absolutely crazy to ask me for a weekly menu.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

6. "spiteful, conniving, vengeful ... distortion of reality?"

Sounds like expert testimony coming from him, no?

Man, what century is this dude from?

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Typical sociopath's justification: "She needed to be killed."

[ashling]

8. forcing him to watch the women-oriented ``Oxygen Channel.''

Oh the horror - what he must have been through :sarcasm:

damn feminazis!! more:sarcasm:

[gatlingforme]

9. Sad part is the judge will probably agree with this ass wipe n/t

[rfranklin]

10. He should have done it himself...

Contracting it out makes it premeditated. If he had done it on the spur of the moment, it would have been okay.

[quisp]

14. heheh - that's true n/t

[Lars39]

34. Well, I've had my "WTF" moment for the day.

[atommom]

40. No, he should have done her a favor and left.

Oh, and some psychiatric help might be a good idea, too.

[LizW]

12. Sadly not uncommon attitudes

Lots of people going through a bad divorce say these things about their spouse. Trouble is, this guy has been taught you solve problems by killing them. The only thing that really surprises me is that he didn't just do what some abusers do and kill her himself.

[Shoeempress]

13. But you can see his point, I mean Divorce is immoral (Yes I'm being

sarcastic)

[lateo]

15. Kelly is that you?

Sounds like my ex-wife...

[Demit]

16. SHE'S the conniving, vengeful lunatic who creates her own reality?

Ignored his demands to prepare menus for his approval? Hahahahaha! Holy moly. What a piece of work this shit is, and I don't think the Marine Corps did that.

[all.of.me]

18. this is my favorite response to this kind of stuff

'you created this.'

if we create our own realities, we have no reason to complain about them, let alone kill others over them!

[BiggJawn]

23. Sounds like my ex-wife....

Wonder if she started writing fan letters to Melissa Etheridge, too?

Why the jar-head didn't just LEAVE?

[sendero]

25. My advice to men...

... who find themselves with a woman that wants to spend money, watch TV, deny intimacy and fail to maintain a household.

Leave. Don't waste time, time won't fix it. Get out. Quickly.

This guy is an idiot, and a murderer.

[atommom]

37. With that attitude, the woman might well be better off without the man!

It's supposed to be a partnership, after all, not a contract for sexual/domestic services.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

39. Or the man could get off his duff and contribute.

"fail to maintain a household"? Fuck that! What is this, 1950?

[Cerridwen]

26. "you made me do it!" The rallying cry of the abuser.

The idea that they could possibly have had anything to do with creating their situation just does not enter their consciousness. How is that possible?

Amazing! Abso-freaking-lutely amazing!

[Rich Hunt]

28. uh-huh

It's pathological narcissism - always the victims fault.

Pathological narcissists can't face themselves and project their own guilt onto their victims. They can dig themselves deeper and deeper into denial until it becomes murderous.

[dryan]

35. My 2 cents...

I read the article. This guy tried not once but twice to have his wife murdered. This is not funny folks. It seems that this is his second marriage and they have a young child--just six years old.

[Lars39]

36. Really!

Makes me wonder if the authorities knew about the first attempt and
kept quiet about it because he was such an "outstanding" guy.

Up thread the comment was made that he should have "done it himself"

and that would be "OK". :puke:

[lukasahero]

43. Thank you. n/t

[shanti]

33. umm, he couldn't just divorce her??

good god.

[atommom]

38. I can't even comment on this rationally, as I knew a woman who

was killed by her husband last year b/c he wanted out of the marriage and his religion forbade divorce. People in troubled relationships often have complaints about each other (I'm sure this man's wife has some complaints about him too). None of these complaints justify murder. Why the hell don't these people just divorce???

[funflower]

41. This is the standard wife-beater routine.

Go to your local courthouse some day and watch the restraining order hearings. A good 30% of them stand up and say with all sincerity that yes they beat the hell out of her but it was her fault because she was a bitch and she deserved it.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

44. She sounds as if she is a depressed and who wouldn't be depressed

married to such a neanderthal. Weekly menus? WTF!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

46. Egads! A real life Dwight Hansen!

The DeNiro character from "This Boy's Life"

"Dwight Hansen: I know a thing or two about a thing or two!"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108330/

Your Honor, double the sentence on this sad excuse for a man, if only for being an embarrassment to those of us who share a chromosone with him.

[geniph]

47. So, if she contracted to have HIM killed

because he's a sexist, controlling, paranoid, abusive, rapist asshole, is that okay?

That may well be the lamest goddam excuse for being a sociopathic murderer I've ever heard. Dude, if you're not happy with your marital arrangements, I highly suggest divorce. It's legal in all 50 states and everything! (Oh, and next time you might want to consider hiring a housekeeper and buying a blow-up doll instead of marrying. It sounds like that's what you were after, not a spouse.)

[Moderator]

48. locked

As this has fallen off page 1, seems a good time to put this story to bed.