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Joseph Ubo
Wives on Layaway
Emmanuel Tutumore decided that his wife, Rose, must die. That was a simple decision to make. Decisions like that—experts would agree—are always simple to arrive at after the decid...view moreWives on Layaway
Emmanuel Tutumore decided that his wife, Rose, must die. That was a simple decision to make. Decisions like that—experts would agree—are always simple to arrive at after the decider feels perfectly wronged by the object of his ire. But carrying out a homicide without leaving a trail that dedicated hounds could pick up on and trace the crime to the source usually proves trickier than just making a financial investment in a murder tool. And that is just one obstacle.
Like marriage counselors have been saying about relationships, communication is very important. In Emmanuel’s case, because he did not inform the object of his extreme ire in a timely manner, either in word or action, that he was planning to do her in, unknowingly, she kept messing up his plans to kill her. For instance, she always had their twin babies with her. Since he considered himself to be an ethical type of guy, if not a loving dad to his girls, despite the feeling of being wronged more than any man has been wronged by a woman, he did not want to leave bullet holes on his children or even splash blood on them in the process of subtracting their mom from the land of the living.
But unlike a lot of people whose involuntary utterances, involuntary facial expressions, and other involuntary body language point to finding the institution of marriage flummoxing, unwielding, overly stressful, and therefore, very bad for their health, Emmanuel did not consider seeking relief via the American true-and-tried avenue: divorce. He was too full of ire to take that route. His desire was to get out of the relationship at no additional financial cost to him. But he realized that in the great state of Texas, a “community property” state, it would take something like a double-portion miracle to pull off a divorce without losing his shirt in the process. His blood pressure spiked whenever his mind considers he fact that his wife could piggyback on him to become a rich single woman after their divorce became final. Therefore, he contemplated hiring a paid assassin to stop that metamorphosis. He planned to turn the tables on her.
But in casual conversations with people who claimed they knew people that were involved in that type of work, he found out that most so-called contract killers were either outright frauds or wannabe police informers looking to get off “the book” themselves by luring others into it. Emmanuel wished for something familiar and simpler: dark magic, the much-talked-about African method of subtracting an enemy without firing an incriminating shot. But his mind recalled a story from home that African voodoo loses its power to do deathly harm the moment it is transported overseas. That meant that it would have been a waste of money to import voodoo to America. He convinced himself that there had to be a necromancer in America who specialized in killing enemies using nothing but magical powers, like he knew they did in Africa.
Emmanuel checked with fortune tellers and palm readers about town. Not only was that not their area of specialization, but they did not know anyone that could carry out a killing without a physical agent of harm. They were no help. He searched some more and researched around, discreetly and locally at first. Under the pretext of attending out-of-town job fairs, he was led him to Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. But even in the mash and very decrepit areas of those states, he could not find real voodoo priests willing to see to the accidental and untimely death of his wife.
He was losing time, yet there was no good help in sight. In desperation, he convinced himself to carry out the deed himself as he had initially decided. He borrowed from the public library a textbook on anatomy and physiology. Since he had parlayed his familial connection to skip biology and other required sciences in high school, he did not know much about the workings of the human body. Consequently, when he needed that knowview less