Crime & Safety
LISTEN: "You've Got the Money ... Have Fun"
Audio from arrest in Facebook murder-for-hire played to jury today
Editor's note: These recordings contain some harsh language.
Jurors heard two audio recordings today of undercover Detective Christopher Bowersock speaking with Christine Metter and her father about a murder-for-hire plot.
Bowersock, posing as "Vinnie," a hit man, speaks with Al Zombory in the first recording, taken May 31. The second is with Metter, Zombory and Bowersock, as Vinnie taken June 3 and includes their arrests.
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The May 31 audio included a voice Bowersock identifies as Al Zombory's telling Bowersock, "You've got the money ... have fun," after Bowersock said Zombory handed him an envelope with $3,000 cash as a down payment for the murder.
after prosecutors say she and Zombory tried to hire a hit man to kill David Metter, her ex-husband. Zombory is to be tried later.
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Metter is in Lake County Jail on a $500,000 bond.
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His trial is scheduled for Jan. 31.
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