Insured for Murder has all the ingredients of a first-rate
thriller: a murder, an insurance scam with a multimillion-dollar
payoff, a playboy businessman, a sinister neurologist wielding a
stun gun, false identities, and an international manhunt. Robin
Yocum and Catherine Candisky, two reporters with The Columbus
Dispatch, describe how they unravelled a con game that was three
years in the making. On the morning of April 16, 1988, the
emergency squad was called to the office of Dr. Richard P. Boggs, a
respected neurologist in Glendale, California. On the floor of the
examining room was the alleged body of Melvin E. Hanson, the vice
president of the Just Sweats athletic clothing store chain, based
in Columbus, Ohio. Apparently, he had collapsed and died of heart
failure during a routine examination. Early next morning, Hanson's
business partner and the company president, John B. Hawkins,
arrived from Columbus and had the body unceremoniously cremated.
The coroner ruled that Hanson had died of natural causes, so there
was nothing to be investigated, and the Glendale police did not
pursue the case further. Behind the facade of just another
mortality statistic, however, was the yet-undiscovered fact that
the body lying on the floor was not Hanson's. The corpse was an
anonymous double who had been murdered in a scheme to fraudulently
collect on Hanson's life insurance policy. The deception was
eventually uncovered by an insurance investigator, but only after
one million dollars had been paid to John Hawkins, the sole
beneficiary of Hanson's life insurance policy. But the full extent
of the scam might never have been discovered except for the
hard-nosed efforts of Yocum and Candisky, whodoggedly pursued the
story and published the results of their investigation in a series
of articles in The Columbus Dispatch. Piece by piece they revealed
what was intended to be a five-million-dollar scheme of fraud and
murder, and unmasked Hanson and Hawkins as con men with a history
of perpetrating insurance scams. Their reports finally moved the
Los Angeles County District Attorney to launch an investigation
that resulted in Boggs being convicted of murder and Hanson and
Hawkins awaiting trials that are scheduled to start before the end
of 1993. Insured for Murder takes the reader beyond the facts of
the investigation and explores the characters of three thoroughly
corrupt individuals: Dr. Richard P. Boggs, who committed murder for
a share of the insurance money; Melvin E. Hanson, the enigmatic
schemer, who faked his own death and engineered the death of an
unwitting imposter; and John B. Hawkins, the young stud willing to
gamble his business and his life on a conspiracy for easy money.
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