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S17 Ep122: Bitter or Better: The Consequences of Hiring A Hit Man w/ Melisa Schonfield

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🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 163 minutes

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Summary

True Crime Tuesday presents Bitter or Better: The Consequences of Hiring A Hit Man with Author, Melisa Schonfield!

How many times have we been in a situation that pushes us to our limit and we feel we have no way out? For Melisa Schonfield, her breaking point came when the justice system failed her and she decided to take matters into her own hands - by hiring a hitman to kill the abusive father of her daughter and grandson.

Melisa's family was the last place you would expect to find a murder-for-hire plot. These were esteemed members of the community. But having done the wrong thing for the right reason, Melisa had to make choices as she was going through the legal system and divorce. This intense true story shows how she chose to find herself better and not bitter in the midst of chaos and adversity.

Melisa joins TCT to talk about how she has turned adversity into advantage, how her daughter and son cope now, where she is now, and how the entire experience shook out!

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Welcome, everybody, to the best in True Crime talk radio.

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This is True Crime Tuesday. I'm Tim Dennis.

0:56.4

Had an interesting weekend, folks. I tell you, every once in a while, I like to bring you stories

1:02.8

that I myself can get pretty darn worked up about. And I found a story that I myself got worked

1:08.6

up about. And it's not too hard to put yourself in the shoes of someone and just want to rage for

1:17.6

them. I found a story that I ended up sitting down over the weekend and reading.

1:26.8

And man, I tell you, I e cringed. I cringed throughout the entire story as I read it.

1:33.2

Not only because sometimes it's just as blind, it's deaf. It turns it turns its face to the other

1:39.5

side and it just doesn't want to just doesn't want to look at injustice in itself.

1:43.9

Now, I'll tell you what I'm talking about. Melissa Shonefeld, or Shonefield, I'm sorry,

1:49.6

is a successful psychotherapist, respected pillar of her community, never been a trouble,

1:55.6

never been a trouble in her life. Her daughter's boyfriend begins abusing her daughter and her

2:02.1

young grandson. Now, we all have issues in our families. I know I've had issues in my family.

2:10.6

I've been in a situation before in my life where I absolutely wanted to kill my sister's ex.

2:18.4

And I mean it. Kill him. I was lucky enough to have a stepdad who pulled me aside and said,

2:28.0

son, you don't want to throw your life away. True words have never been spoken.

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