Christine Metter Says She Told Father to Cancel Murder-for-Hire Scheme

Christine Metter testified today that she thought her father and Patrick Sabo were “nuts” when they talked to her about a murder-for-hire plot to kill her ex-husband.

 after prosecutors say she and her father, Al Zombory, tried to hire a hit man to kill David Metter, her ex-husband. Zombory is to be tried later.

She testified she didn’t know about the plan, which Sabo, Christine Metter's high school classmate and friend, said Zombory suggested to him May 27, 2011, until two days later.

May 29, Zombory told her he and Sabo would drive to Atlanta to kill David Metter, said Christine Metter.

She told him that it was “crazy,” she said in court Friday, and thought that he was not serious about it.

But the next day, Sabo told her he had found a hit man named Vince to kill David Metter. Christine Metter went to her father and asked him to cancel the plans, she testified.

“Don’t worry about it. I’ll take care of it,” she testified Zombory said. She said he told her to “just play along.”

Patrick Sabo called her and asked her to find David Metter’s insurance paperwork, the first conversation he recorded for Eastlake Police. She looked for it, she said, because her father had told her to play along.

Friday David Metter had been physically abusive and unfaithful during their marriage.

Christine Metter was on the stand from around 11 a.m. Friday to about 3 p.m., and her testimony is expected to continue Tuesday. Lake County Common Pleas Court is closed Monday for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Metter is in Lake County Jail on a $500,000 bond.

 His trial is scheduled for Jan. 31.

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