Our first two-fer …
Elisa McNabney (r) and Sarah Dutra (l) worked together at a law firm. Elisa was married to the owner, Larry McNabney, and worked as the COO. Sarah was a part-time secretary.
The two hit it off big time. To such an extent, in fact, that they conspired to knock off Larry.
Now, Larry wasn’t the nicest guy in the world. He was a notorious drunk, and may have been abusive as well.
Elisa
At least he seemed to be forgiving though. Elisa, before she was Mrs. McNabney, had embezzled thousands of dollars from him. Not only did he forgive her, he asked her to marry him (his 5th, her 3rd).
Turns out Elisa, though, was hiding a pretty checkered past from her new hubby. In fact, she had a 113-page criminal record, had used 38 different aliases (her birth name was Laren Sims), and had actually met Larry when she cut off an ankle monitor & fled to Vegas. (They would move to Sacramento after Elisa’s little embezzling to-do.)
Purely for monetary needs, Elisa and Sarah decided to do Larry in. In particular, they injected him with some horse tranquilizer (Larry was one of those horsey types). Elisa did the injecting, and Sarah just kind of helped out.
Not knowing quite what to do with him, they put him on ice (literally) for a few months. While Larry cooled, they made up all sort of stories about where he was – he was in rehab, he had moved to Costa Rica, he had joined a cult … At the same time, they helped themselves to half a million of the law firm’s assets.
Finally, they buried him in a vineyard. Not too soon after, though, he was discovered by some workers.
And that was Elisa’s cue to take her teen-aged daughter, a little more money, and go on the lam. On the other side of the country, in Florida, her daughter eventually turned her in. In prison there, Elisa hung herself, confessing to everything in a suicide note, implicating Sarah as well.
Sarah
Sarah would get 12 years for voluntary manslaughter and being an accessory to murder. She’s out now, but keeping a very low profile. God only knows what she’s up to.
The case has appeared on Snapped, Dateline, Deadly Wives & Evil Stepmothers. It also inspired a TV movie, Lies My Mother Told Me.
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