Woman offered sex for life to kill husband

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Suspect describes killing on tape

Man: Woman offered sex for life to kill husband

By MICHELLE MILLHOLLON
mmill...@theadvocate.com
Advocate staff writer
A man on trial for murder told police in a videotaped statement that a
neighbor offered to become his sex slave if he would kill her estranged
husband.

"She said it was a standing offer, you know, about the slavery," Jeffrey
Maggio tells police detectives on the tape that was played for a jury
Wednesday.

Maggio, 32, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Frederick
Lane Fontana.

Second-degree murder is punishable by life in prison.

Maggio has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

Fontana's body was found in his Plymouth Grand Fury in the 600 block of East
Roosevelt Street in April 2001. The car had been set on fire.

Autopsy results showed the victim died from manual asphyxiation, or
strangulation.

Police said Fontana's estranged wife, Hattie Rennolds, promised Maggio sex
for life in exchange for killing Fontana.

Rennolds also is charged with second-degree murder in Fontana's death. She
is awaiting trial.

At the time of the killing, Fontana and Rennolds were embroiled in a custody
dispute over their son.

Fontana filed for primary custody of the boy weeks before the killing.

Prosecutor Chris Nevils told jurors in opening statements that Fontana and
Maggio were roommates.

Rennolds lived in the same apartment complex, he said.

Maggio had multiple motives for killing Fontana, Nevils said.

The most important motive was Rennolds' sex-for-life offer, he said.

"This was a clear case of pre-meditated, deliberate murder," Nevils said.
"It was a needless murder."

Maggio's attorney, Edward Partin, said he would give his opening statements
at the end of the prosecution's case.

Maggio was arrested within days of Fontana's death.

In a videotaped statement, he told police about his bumbled attempts to kill
Fontana as they sat inside Fontana's car on the levee near the Mississippi
River.

Maggio said he first tried to stab Fontana with a steak knife but the blade
broke off the handle.

He said he didn't have any better luck with a telephone cord.

Maggio said he wrapped the cord around Fontana's neck but the cord kept
breaking.

He said he finally grabbed a heavy cord from the back seat and pulled it
around Fontana's neck until Fontana was dead.

Maggio said he drove around with the body in the car before setting the car
on fire.

He said Fontana was dead before the fire.

"I checked his pulse in his right hand," Maggio says on the tape. "I felt no
pulse."

Maggio said a friend later asked him what it felt like to kill a man.

"I told her, 'I felt like God,' " Maggio said.

Testimony resumes today in state District Judge Richard Anderson's court

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What happened to her for soliciting murder for hire + doesn't she and other ppl realize that when you're fighting for custody this isn't the way to go bc you still lose,now the state or if any family members are around will gain full custody @ this point and you will forever see your child between a thick glass window if a family member decides to bring the child if state has the child you lose out on the child's life forever. Now the child has not 1 parent to HELP him in this CRAZY world. REAL smart Hattie! Jeff isn't that CRAZY he knows what sex for life is and the DIFFERENCE between someone dying and not dying so hey why don't I KEEP on tryin & why I'm @ it I'm gonna light on fire to hide what I did + the identity of the body, I say eye for an eye!!!!

[kather...@gmail.com]

Your right

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I just saw Hattie on " Fatal Vows" and God or she's painfully dumb if you listen to the garbage she has to say Or she's really doped up. Should have just left poor Frederick alone and go with her pimp Jeffrey..
At least, she didn't get custody of her son, God forbid.. and lol only had two and a half years.. where is justice for Frederick?? Michèle