Piper Simon

American homicide: an only child, he planned to kill his parents for their money. The family was not particularly wealthy but they did have life insurance policies and assets. Simon had joined the Marines but when he was drummed out as a recruit, returned home to live with his folks until he had a fight with them a month prior. On the night of his planned execution, his dad was unexpectedly late coming home. Simon and his pal and accomplice, Roland Beauchesne, both 21, waited for two hours for his dad before deciding to go ahead and dispose of mom. He fired three bullets into his moms head at point blank on 7/14/1994, about 5:00 PM, and dumped her body in the basement. They rigged an explosive in the house which was supposed to take care of the evidence, and fled. Picked up by the police, both boys were held without bail on murder charges. A document related to the trial Read less