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Keith Minor stabbed him seven times in what cops initially thought was a robbery gone wrong.
But as they delved deeper into the case they found that the troubled self help guru had been planning his own death for some time.
Having run up huge debts investing in a Ponzi scheme by former Backstreet Boy's manager Lou Pearlman, he took out huge life insurance policies and then looked into ways of killing himself.
He knew that his death would provide an $18 million payout for his family, but that would not happen if he killed himself, the 52-year-old started to look for other ways of bumping himself off.
So he hit on the plan of getting someone else to do it.
But the first man he approached took his $4000 and ran so he approached the down on his luck Minor to do it instead.
Initially Minor, 38, said he brushed off Locker's offer, but then began to feel sorry for him as he explained his financial problems.
So eventually he agreed to help and said he just held the knife against the car's steering wheel while Locker repeatedly lunged into it, and a prominent pathologist testified his account was plausible. He now faces life behind bars when he's sentenced in April although his lawyer said he was already planning an appeal.
"I'm confident that this case ultimately will be reversed," Daniel Gotlin said.
Entering this on 11/15/2015:
ReplyDeleteThe case WAS reversed (as it should have been) and Minor received a 12-year sentence. Years of drug abuse can take its toll on the brain and drug need vs judgment can certainly be a major motivator. I don't believe Minor stabbed him either, but, rather, Locker "did a Mark Anthony" to coin a phrase in addition to "pulling a Kevorkian" (his phrase).
What I really find horrifying is the Locker's attitude- a husband and father evidently had discussed this with them. Their desire for money certainly seems to override any affection they may have had for him. In a documentary I just watched it was stated that there hadn't been any commentary from the family.
Locker had decided to make the ultimate sacrifice; true, ego had something to do with his decision- the Ponzi scheme in which he had been involved and his financial problems were both failure and an enbarrassment to him but it would seem that depression was a major- if not the ultimate reason and evidently the family didn't seem to care enough to let him know his presence was far more important to them than to continue living in luxury. Although the wife lost her case for the final $4 mil insurance it seems obvious that the other $8 mil WAS paid out by the ins companies which Locker had used prior to his assisted suicide.