Crime & Safety
VIDEO: Two Plead Not Guilty in Facebook Murder-for-Hire Case
A Beachwood woman and her father appeared in court today to answer to charges that they conspired to hire a hit man to kill her ex-husband
Christine Metter and her father, Al Zombory, pleaded not guilt today to charges that they conspired to hire a hitman.
The two, both from Beachwood, are accused of offering money first to Metter's high school friend, and later to an undercover detective, to kill her ex-husband.
said witness Patrick Sabo, a friend of Metter's from high school. He tesified in an earlier hearing that when she complained about her ex in a Facebook chat, he jokingly suggested she put a hit on him. But she took him seriously, Sabo said, and her father later offered him $50,000 to do it.
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Both Zombory and Metter have been in Lake County Jail since their arrest June 3. and again today in court.
Chief Assistant Prosecutor Karen Kowall told Judge Vincent Culotta today in court that Zombory has a criminal history of theft charges.
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