On this day, March 18, in 1991, a Detroit woman kills her husband after he returned from the Gulf War so she could collect his life insurance.
Anthony Riggs, 22, who had been a Patriot missile crewman in the Gulf War, was shot to death in front of his house 10 days after he returned.
He was originally thought to have been a victim of random street violence, and the case attracted widespread attention.
At his funeral, Rev. Jesse Jackson gave the eulogy, and Aretha Franklin sang the soldier’s favorite hymn.
Police found a handgun that police traced to the brother of his wife, Toni Cato Riggs.
Videotape from a hidden camera show showed the wife telling federal agents posing as drug dealers that she had plotted with her brother to kill her husband.
Cato Riggs was convicted sentenced to life in prison.