In 2021, Missouri ex-realtor Leigh Ann Bauman made national headlines after prosecutors charged her with conspiring to hire a hitman to kill her former mother-in-law for $1,500. Now, nearly two years later, authorities havedropped the case.
, Bauman was a Jesus-loving powerboat-racing real estate agent in Lake Ozark when she told a friend that her children’s grandmother had “caused a strain” in her relationship with them. That friend then secretly recorded Bauman saying of the grandma: “I want her dead.” Bauman and her supporters had argued she was innocent and only venting during drinks with a pal. “You’re drunk with your friend one night and say, ‘Yeah I hate my boyfriend.
Sounds like a plot form the 'Ozark' Network series.