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I'm your host Heather Ashley and today's case starts as a tragic mystery and ends in a horrific plot twist.

Small talk sucks so let's dive in.

Bridget Prate worked her butt off. She was driven and stopped at nothing until her goals were met.

Whether it was her dream of becoming an occupational therapist, which she achieved, or her dream of having a beautiful family.

She got married to Anthony Prate in the early 1980s. He was a successful optometrist and the two seemed to have a really good thing going for them.

They had a cute little house, nice cars, nothing fancy but nice and they had two kids that they adored.

But something was off. It might not have always been off but somewhere at some point things took a really weird turn.

The last week of February in 2011, Anthony got home and overheard his wife talking to another man on the phone.

It set him off into this weird stealth mode and instead of just walking in and being like, hey who are you talking to?

He decided to hide in the laundry room and listen.

As he was sitting there eavesdropping on the conversation, he heard what he thought was his wife and this other man plotting his murder.

At some point he busted out of the laundry room and confronted the two and who knows what he said or how he approached that topic.

But in the end he wound up calling 911 and demanding that the two of them be arrested immediately.

According to the Chicago Tribune, Anthony says that Bridget was talking to this mystery man about who would get the house if Anthony died and that she couldn't wait until her and this guy could be together.

That it wouldn't be long before he was taken care of.

The responding officers talked to both Anthony and Bridget and by the end of both conversations, the police left and absolutely no charges were filed.

According to Bridget, whatever he thought he'd heard was a huge misunderstanding that she wasn't plotting his murder in the middle of their kitchen.

She was just helping her friend study for his real estate exam and the topic they were going over were the policies and procedures for when a homeowner dies.

Now you might think that thinking your wife was plotting your murder with her buddy in real estate that you think she's cheating on you with or your husband calling the police and accusing you of plotting his murder so you can ride off into the sunset with one of your friends would be the end of your marriage.

But for these two it wasn't, at least not then.

They continued living together in the same house, raising their kids and around 6 p.m. on March 2nd about a week later, the couple decided they needed a new TV.

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