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The Top 10 Honeymoon's Go Wrong

Michael Escoto and his wife Wendy had only been married for four days when he bludgeoned her to death in an attempt to collect a million dollar life insurance payout. His girlfriend, Yolanda, actually testified at the murder trial and said that Escoto's plan was to make his wife's death look like an accident. But the plan got screwed up when Wendy woke up in the water and began to struggle. 10 years later in 2012, for her testimony,Yolanda got immunity. And Escoto was found guilty of first-degree murder but denied a retrial and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

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