In today’s episode of Dumb Criminals, an Arkansas man allegedly hatched a plan to murder a former employee butt-dialed the victim and revealed the plot.
Via Huffington Post:
Police in Jonesboro, Ark., arrested Larry Barnett, 68, on Thursday after he inadvertently revealed his plans of murder to his alleged target.
The person who received the call had previously worked for Barnett at Legend Motor Company in Jonesboro.
He quickly figured out he was the intended victim and listened for 90 minutes as Barnett plotted the murder and gave a third party directions to the victim’s house, Gawker.com reported.
The victim told police he overheard Barnett say, “I don’t care if you have to burn his house to the ground with him in it. I don’t care what you have to do, make it look like an accident.”
Police in Paragould, Ark., where the victim lives, went to the complainant’s home and discovered it had been burglarized and the gas stove had been tampered with, KAIT-TV reported.
From there, Barnett was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Womp womp.