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You're listening to an Ono Media podcast.

Good morning and thanks for joining me for Rise and Crime.

Your morning caffeine hit, All About Crime.

I'm Mama Jules, and we have three stories and an update to a previous case today.

First off, we've got a murder-for-hire plot, spanning three states with an unexpected ending for one of the orchestrators of the plot. Then we have an animal story. It has a criminal portion, but also

1500 happy endings for families adopting beagles. Then the update to the Athena Strand case, Tanner Horner, has been sentenced.

And finally, a drunk Karen drives on a sidewalk trying to mow down a kid. Let's get into it.

Now, sometimes we cover cases here that feel less like a sudden act of violence or passion-driven aggression and more like something carefully

constructed piece by piece, decision by decision, until there was only one possible crafted ending.

That's how the murderer of Michael Harding went down. Michael was a man who walked into what he believed

was a routine HVAC job appointment, and instead he stepped directly into a calculated ambush,

and all of it was sculpted and created by his soon-to-be ex-wife. Now to understand how this

happened, you have to go back before the gunshots and before

the empty house where it took place in Kentucky.

Also, before the fake phone call about the HVAC appointment.

You have to go back into a marriage that was unraveling in a way that those closest

to that marriage would later describe as volatile, tense,

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