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rich businessman was wearing a diaper when he plotted to murder his wife with his dominatrix-mistress and her ex-lover hitman, a jury heard Monday.
Hulking hitman Kerry Bob Anderson, surreptitiously taped his meeting with businessman Alex Petraitis, who was wearing the diaper, and Sandy Rinella at her Scarborough apartment as the trio discussed a kidnapping-killing of Petratis’ wife of almost 40 years, Kirsten Petraitis.
Anderson concealed a tape-recorder in his socks and under a pant leg in order to protect himself against Petraitis in the event he tried to turn him into police. Petraitis was angry after paying Anderson about $100,000 and waiting months for a murder that never took place.
Anderson never said anything to Petraitis about his unusual dress — which the witness said was either “a diaper or a toga” — on the tape.
But Anderson admitted in court that he arrived just after Rinella and Petraitis had just finished some “fantasy role-playing” at her apartment.
On the tape played in court, Petraitis is heard saying he hoped he and Anderson “would really make it look like a kidnapping” at the couple’s Stoney Lake cottage in the Kawarthas.
Anderson said he would “put Kirsten in a sleeper and break her neck in a second.”
The witness told the jury he also wanted to extort more money out of Petraitis. Anderson added he thought about asking Petraitis for $1 million and a Hummer, figuring he could send him copies of the incriminating tapes or give them to his wife.
Anderson never followed through. Days later, everyone involved in the alleged plot was arrested in mid-January 2004.
Petraitis, 68, and Rinella, 47, pleaded not guilty to conspiring to kill his wife and counselling Anderson, 46, to commit murder.
In cross-examination, Rinella’s lawyer Joseph Neuberger said Anderson dismissed the murder plot as “crazy” when he testified in 2005 at the preliminary hearing.
“You’ve got two co-defendants (who are) up on conspiracy to commit murder on someone that they didn’t want killed. You’ve got a hitman on the stand who was being paid to do a murder that wasn’t going to commit a murder,” testified Anderson five years ago.
Anderson admitted he “felt that way in 2005, but it’s not the way I feel today. I don’t see it as a joke. It’s not funny.”
Neuberger suggested that Rinella was suffering from a raging cocaine addiction, which triggered a host of “bizarre behaviours” when she and Anderson split up in 1999 or 2000.
Rinella would scratch her back against the wall as if she were a snake shedding its skin, court heard.
The trial resumes Tuesday.
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rich businessman was wearing a diaper when he plotted to murder his wife with his dominatrix-mistress and her ex-lover hitman, a jury heard Monday.
Hulking hitman Kerry Bob Anderson, surreptitiously taped his meeting with businessman Alex Petraitis, who was wearing the diaper, and Sandy Rinella at her Scarborough apartment as the trio discussed a kidnapping-killing of Petratis’ wife of almost 40 years, Kirsten Petraitis.
Anderson concealed a tape-recorder in his socks and under a pant leg in order to protect himself against Petraitis in the event he tried to turn him into police. Petraitis was angry after paying Anderson about $100,000 and waiting months for a murder that never took place.
Anderson never said anything to Petraitis about his unusual dress — which the witness said was either “a diaper or a toga” — on the tape.
But Anderson admitted in court that he arrived just after Rinella and Petraitis had just finished some “fantasy role-playing” at her apartment.
On the tape played in court, Petraitis is heard saying he hoped he and Anderson “would really make it look like a kidnapping” at the couple’s Stoney Lake cottage in the Kawarthas.
Anderson said he would “put Kirsten in a sleeper and break her neck in a second.”
The witness told the jury he also wanted to extort more money out of Petraitis. Anderson added he thought about asking Petraitis for $1 million and a Hummer, figuring he could send him copies of the incriminating tapes or give them to his wife.
Anderson never followed through. Days later, everyone involved in the alleged plot was arrested in mid-January 2004.
Petraitis, 68, and Rinella, 47, pleaded not guilty to conspiring to kill his wife and counselling Anderson, 46, to commit murder.
In cross-examination, Rinella’s lawyer Joseph Neuberger said Anderson dismissed the murder plot as “crazy” when he testified in 2005 at the preliminary hearing.
“You’ve got two co-defendants (who are) up on conspiracy to commit murder on someone that they didn’t want killed. You’ve got a hitman on the stand who was being paid to do a murder that wasn’t going to commit a murder,” testified Anderson five years ago.
Anderson admitted he “felt that way in 2005, but it’s not the way I feel today. I don’t see it as a joke. It’s not funny.”
Neuberger suggested that Rinella was suffering from a raging cocaine addiction, which triggered a host of “bizarre behaviours” when she and Anderson split up in 1999 or 2000.
Rinella would scratch her back against the wall as if she were a snake shedding its skin, court heard.
The trial resumes Tuesday.
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