A Diesel Truck Racer’s Plan Backfires
(“A Squire’s Riches,” Forensic Files)
Does Forensic Files deter viewers from trying out insurance fraud or does it make them think they’re smart enough to do a better job of it?
“A Squire’s Riches” tells the story of a building contractor who apparently fell into the second category. Like a number of Forensic Files bad guys before him, he dreamed up a plan to get rich by faking his own death.
Case of the blues. Ari Squire’s plot didn’t involve a Harvard-educated surgeon or a walking ad for vasectomies, but it did have giant diesel trucks and blue contact lenses.
As so with the others, Squire’s plan failed.
He evaded justice by taking his own life, leaving behind a wife, Denise Squire, who almost certainly had some prior knowledge of her husband’s devious plans.
Star Truck. The Forensic Files episode, first broadcast in 2010, ends with a mention that authorities were still investigating Denise Squire’s role in the crime. For this week, I looked around to find out what happened to her, but first, here’s a recap of “A Squire’s Riches“ along with additional information from internet research:
Ari Squire, 39, ran a once-thriving construction business out of suburban Chicago.
It enabled him to indulge in a pastime popular at fairs and racetracks: competing to see whose diesel truck is fastest and can pull the heaviest load. He built a huge garage on his property in Lake Barrington to give himself room to tinker with the big vehicles.
Legal cost nightmare. By 2008, however, Squire’s fortunes had turned into a big flat tire. Forensic Files didn’t mention it, but in 2007, he had pleaded guilty to Medicare fraud in connection with a business called AccuCare Inc., the Daily Herald reported. He had to pay $63,000 to settle that matter.
An earlier case on similar charges had resulted in a $126,000 judgment against Squire.
In addition, Squire’s legal fees amounted to around $200,000, according to a Dateline NBC episode about the murder. The financial strain didn’t exactly help to rekindle Ari’s already-lukewarm marriage to Denise, who at one time worked as an adjunct professor at National-Louis University.
With the start of the subprime housing crisis, business slowed down at Squire’s construction firm. It was at a breaking point.
Squire came up with a plan, and it didn’t involve bankruptcy court.
Double trouble. He decided to stage an accident in his garage, making it look as though a pickup truck fell off a jack and crushed him – and then a lightbulb broke and ignited fuel from the truck’s diesel filter.
The blueprint required a dead body other than Squire’s, someone with a face and build that resembled his, just in case the fire didn’t obscure the body’s identifying characteristics.
His $5 million insurance policy payout would then go to three people: Denise Squire, Joseph Vaccaro, who was Ari’s best friend and business partner, and Shana Majmudar, one of Ari’s sisters.
Tempting wages. Presumably, one or all three of the parties would secretly funnel some of the money to Ari, who would disappear and assume the identity of the dupe killed in his garage.
Squire scoped out look-alikes at his favorite Home Depot in Lake Zurich.
He invited his first pick, a married dad named Sandy Lively, to his house to discuss a a job paying $60,000 a year. Lively and Squire had similar hair and facial features. Fortunately, Lively overslept and the meeting never happened.
Young life taken. Next up, Squire lured Home Depot worker Justin Newman, age 20, to his home, with the promise of a construction job paying $15 an hour — twice the Illinois minimum wage in 2008.
Newman’s height and weight were close to Squire’s.
Police believe that, once Squire got Newman in his garage, he incapacitated him with chloroform, moved his body under the truck and let it fall on him, then started the fire and fled.
On February 23, 2008, Denise Squire called 911 to report smoke coming from the garage. First responders found the dead body under the truck and initially believed it to be that of Ari Squire, an unfortunate accident victim.
Killer’s other side. Shortly after Ari’s “death,” Denise Squire arranged for a memorial banquet at a Skokie venue called Maggiano’s Little Italy, and 120 people came to pay their respects. Ari was popular within the diesel-truck pulling community, according to Chad Embrey, a friend interviewed on Dateline:
“He was an extremely nice guy. I think he stood out because he was willing … to volunteer his parts and tools to help others that he was competing against. And usually once that competitive nature takes over, people get into it for themselves. But Ari wasn’t like that.”
The Dateline episode isn’t on YouTube, but you can read the transcript online.
Plan’s downfall. Denise Squire pushed to have Ari’s body released and cremated (Red flag No. 147 — spouse in a hurry to burn the evidence), but the authorities wanted some answers first.
Investigators found the electricity turned off in Ari’s garage, so how did the lightbulb ignite the fire? And would an experienced mechanic really be sloppy enough to slide under an inadequately secured vehicle?
Police got a break when dental records showed that the dead body’s teeth didn’t match Squire’s.
Heartbreak hotel. Meanwhile, to make it appear that Justin Newman was still alive, Squire was using Newman’s credit cards and sending text messages to Newman’s mother, Donna FioRito. She got suspicious — her son didn’t normally text — and reported him missing.
On March 2, 2008, a detective discovered Ari Squire alive and hiding in a room at a Days Inn in Eureka, Missouri.
Instead of surrendering, Squire shot and killed himself.
Cyber trail revealed. Justin Newman’s cell phone, ID, and car were found at the Days Inn. Squire had colored his hair and obtained blue contact lenses so that his appearance would match the description on Newman’s driver’s license.
With Ari Squire now legitimately deceased, next up came determining Denise Squire’s involvement in the insurance fraud plot.
Lake County Sheriff’s investigators uncovered emails Ari had sent to Denise Squire to nail down the details about disposing of the body and holding the memorial service. He had sent the messages shortly after the staged accident, while he was supposed to be dead.
Cry me a river, Denise. The widow would later claim that she thought the emails were written before her husband died, and sent automatically later.
FioRito and her other son, Frank Testa III, sued Denise Squire for wrongful death. At the four-day civil trial in 2010, Denise’s lawyer, Martin A. Blumenthal, attempted to portray her as a victim, an AP story reported:
“Denise loses sleep over the fact that just a few yards away from her, Ari did this to a young man. Don’t forget, he set the house on fire with her in it.”
A jury awarded FioRito and Testa $6 million, although it’s not clear whether they received any of the money. Denise Squire reportedly hadn’t been able to collect on her husband’s $5 million Fidelity Investment Life Insurance policy because of a suicide clause.
Career still healthy. But legal documents from 2011 reveal that a judge ordered that “beneficiaries” receive $1.3 million in insurance money. It’s not clear who the beneficiaries were, but let’s hope Donna FioRito and her surviving son got the funds.
As far as Denise Squire’s whereabouts today, it looks as though she’s using her maiden name, Denise Mary Frank, and still living in the Chicago area.
LinkedIn lists a Denise Frank with some specs consistent with Denise Squire’s career — including a gig as an administrator at the Scott Nolan Behavioral Health Center. The profile mentions a degree from National-Louis University, the same school where Denise Squire once taught part-time. She gives her occupation as a senior health care executive. Her LinkedIn profile photo, however, looks significantly different from the picture shown on Forensic Files, so there’s no saying for sure.
Sins of the father. Incidentally, the health care profession and shady dealings appear to have run in Ari Squire’s family.
Morris Squire, Ari’s father, once owned a psychiatric facility named Forest Hospital in Des Plaines, Illinois. The elder Squire sold it for $10 million in 1999 so that the hospital could pay $4 million to settle a civil Medicare fraud suit that involved charging Alzheimer’s patients for care they didn’t need.
The Chicago Tribune reported that the services Forest Hospital was billing to Medicare included “unlicensed people reading [patients] horoscopes from the newspaper.”
Morris Squire outlived his son, dying at age 90 in 2014.
That’s all for this week. Until next time, cheers. — RR
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Thanks, RR; I recall the ep, which left the wife’s situation dangling, so it’s nice to have your research.
This was a truly evil murder, and, as so often, the perp too stupid to pull it off (texting Justin’s mum, pretending to be him???; dental evidence, often used for ID after a fire, instantly refuting the supposed identity), and I assume the perp would’ve got a capital sentence, which appears thoroughly deserved. But it’s galling that the wife seems to have got away with co-conspiracy to murder. As I think FF asked, how was the husband to collect on the insurance if she weren’t in on it? Was he going to return as an all-too-solid ghost and surprise her (having trusted she’d hand it over when she had murder over him)? I assume she got away with her part ‘cos there was insufficient evidence – only grave suspicion. Assuming she was conspiring, I hope she painfully remembers her part in the murder every day for the rest of her life, and does all she can to repent. For if she hadn’t agreed with the conspiracy it presumably wouldn’t have happened – so she is instrumental in the murder of a man just out of boyhood.
Yes, let’s hope Justin’s mum got any proceeds, not the evil wife. No wonder she’s changed her name…
Glad you liked the write up, Marcus – thanks for writing in. The only justification I can think of for not prosecuting the wife is that she can continue working and share her wages with the victim’s family. But I seriously doubt that happened.
RR: The law couldn’t use the reasoning you suggest, so unless she received a non-custodial sentence (for what?) – and I think that would be somewhere on the interweb – she got away. She should count herself very fortunate that she did… It’s an interesting case ‘cos of her likely involvement and how that was treated. I’d like to know why she wasn’t prosecuted, assuming not.
My theory’s something of a pipe dream.
… But a most commendable one!
Marcus, sociopaths do not have the mental capacity to feel remorse for their crimes, much less “repent.” These are hardly church-driven people, endowed with a lot of antiquated church beliefs. The very term ‘sociopath’ describes an individual with an “extreme lack of conscience.” Understand, not all sociopaths are violent. Many, like my own mother, are simply missing that part of the brain that recognizes emotion (sadness or happiness) in others. While I recognize that churches still believe anybody can be rehabilitated, the truth is – like sex offenders – sociopaths are presently beyond the abilities of modern medicine to be controlled. Until such time as treatments become available, violent sociopaths must be parsed from society. Churches would be doing themselves and their followers a great favor if they were to step into the 21st century and begin studying and learning about human behavior, before making erroneous blanket assumptions.
Hi Jason: I’m sure you’re right about sociopaths. What we don’t know is the degree to which the wife ratified the husband’s plan (assuming it was his, not hers!) She may have been reluctant ‘cos she knew it was profoundly wrong, but was pressurised by him and his desperation (did he threaten suicide, as he eventually enacted?) – in which case she may now deeply regret her position, which is at least something. ‘Repentance’ need not be a religious concept, and there is always the possibility of it, however unlikely it seems. That, of course, does nothing for the victims. You say she’s a sociopath: how do you know? Unless you define all people who behave like her as sociopaths, there are surely those who have no conscience (whom you define sociopathic) – AND those who do have a conscience but choose to ignore it. With respect I think your approach is vastly simplistic and it is you making blanket assumptions (namely her alleged sociopathy).
I also suggest that you’re confusing sociopathy and psychopathy. A psychopath doesn’t have a conscience. If she lies so he can steal your money, she won’t feel any moral qualms, though she may pretend to. She may observe others and then act the way they do so he’s not found out. A sociopath typically has a conscience, but it’s weak. She may know that taking your money is wrong, and she might feel some guilt or remorse, but that won’t stop her behaviour. Both lack empathy, the ability to stand in someone else’s shoes and understand how they feel . But a psychopath has less regard for others, so they are more likely the murderous type – though, as you say, violence isn’t a necessary feature of either condition, and is, indeed, unusual.
We probably agree about this woman’s state. But I do disagree with your (irrelevant – because you’ve spun-off about ‘repentance’) point that the Church’s view on the human condition is antiquated, as though it or I suggest she can change, be cured, etc. I suggested no such thing; rather that I HOPE she appreciates her depravity, is sorry for it and seeks change. But you begged the question in diagnosing her, then assumed what my position is.
If I may say so, and I mean this very gently, in our enjoyable exchanges I detect a tendency of you to read meanings into what I state, as though you think you know where I’m going and then ‘fill in the blanks’, caricaturing my position (eisegesis – the process of interpreting in such a way that the process introduces one’s own presuppositions, agendas, or biases), probably as that ‘of religious types’. This may well be my fault for being opaque, forcing you to guess what I mean…
There’s no position of value-neutrality from which we come. My values may be ‘religious’ and therefore capable of criticism; but your values may be ‘secular’, and are assuredly as capable of criticism as mine. For all values, whatever they are, are based on understanding/assumption about reality and the way the world is – and that are necessarily debatable. There is no ‘given’. It’s an attractive error (not that I’m suggesting you make it!) that many make that secular / humanist / scientific – whatever one calls them – beliefs/values are ‘foundational’ and anything ‘beyond’ is faith-based / fantasy / illusory. Matters aren’t so simple. This isn’t to suggest that there aren’t good and bad arguments for what is and isn’t, just that what some take for granted is itself illusory – the illusion of obviousness and givenness.
Marcus, we can debate the ‘shoulda-coulda-woulda’ theories long after the cows come home and late into the night. Bottom line, she hasn’t been charged yet because the prosecutor’s office believes there is a sufficient lack of enough evidence to persuade a jury of her guilt. Knowing she’s guilty is one thing; proving it is quite another. All she needs is one good OJ lawyer, and the case is toast. Forever. In this country, once you’re acquitted, there is no appeal, such as the Italians do. If you killed a guy and are acquitted, you can take out a full page ad in the New York Sunday Times bragging about your complete guilt, and there are no more criminal actions available.
I have tried not to read meaning into your words. However, with all due cordiality and respect, your writing tends to be wordy, with a lot of multiple adjectives and parenthetical insertions. Cumulatively, this leads to unnecessary distraction from the main point. I attribute this to the writing anomalies between England and America. In reaching conclusions, I use deductive reasoning: if this doesn’t fit, it’s eliminated, and so on, until the remaining theory is the only one that fits, and the writer’s thrust is now clear. Over the years, America has tended to lean toward clearer, simpler efficiency, especially when addressing legal matters. With that goal in mind, I hope I have succeeded.
He thought no one would check the teeth?
Mike: Let’s be glad that many perps are stupid… If he was suicidal ‘cos of debts – desperate – he may well have realised that this desperate act could fail for the reasons it did, but considered there was some hope that it succeeds. He was probably right in that estimation, for it if weren’t for the stupid, avoidable errors, such as suggesting the lamp ignited the fuel but forgetting to leave the power on, and the too-obvious use of accelerant, suspicion may not have been raised and the dental exam not done. But it may be that the exam would always be done in a case of questionable identity, such that he couldn’t hope to succeed…
This case and certain others in FF, where people have been ‘replaced’ by those they’ve murdered or been dug from a grave, then burned, for insurance, challenge us to consider whether such a crime could now be done successfully – ie, are there just too many means of establishing identity, or at least falsifying claimed identity, forensically now even when only charred bones remain? In short, can one set of remains convincingly ‘stand in’ for another?
It’s been done many times! While it’s been said there’s no such thing as a perfect crime, that is hardly true. The ones who make all the dumb mistakes commit the imperfect crimes. The one who make zero mistakes are the perfect crimes.
Hi Jason: But don’t we know it’s been done many times because they were caught? By definition you can’t know of the successful cases…
That’s exactly what I just said.
Or that no one would notice he was too experienced to crawl under a car with only a jack stand supporting it.
Jason, sorry: I took you literally (I know, you’re groaning inwardly…) “It’s been done many times,” but it’s hardly true that there’s no such thing as the perfect crime. Logic: so, it’s true that there is such a thing as the perfect crime, coupled with “It’s been done many times” conveys that the perfect crime has been done many times. Which was just what I was disagreeing with. So “exactly what I just said” was not exactly what you just meant… What you said was literally ambiguous.
Marcus, you’re talking in your ******* religious drifts again, and it’s getting irritating. Please concentrate on making sense, instead of nit-picking over minutiae. Proofread what you write, clear your dialog of extraneous BS and baloney and stop bullying people by telling them what they’re thinking. And try finding something you agree with, for a change. Every thought from you is a criticism, indictment or contradiction. Even with your religious addiction, there has to be something in your life that’s positive!
Jason Houston could not be more right.
Her LinkedIn picture now sure have a lot of similarities to the pic in FF. I noticed how she stated she was adjunct professor at “various universities” to avoid naming the one that would give her away.
Surprising she has a social media presence given this business… It’d be interesting to know whether, as far as she’s concerned, the case remains open or she’s been exonerated (through lack of evidence). He (and she?) did a terrible thing.
She calls 9-1-1 and says « I think My garage is on fire! What should I do go outside? » not scream about « my husband is in there!! Help quick!! »? Curious isn’t it?
She gets an email from her supposedly dead husband. Did she go immediately to the police? Doesn’t seem that way.
She’s either dumb; unlikely; abused by him, possible; or equally as guilty.
Of course she’s guilty of conspiracy to defraud at the very least. Disturbing that she seems not to’ve been charged with anything.
According to an ep of ‘Copycat Killers’ on Squire, it was the FF ep about Madison Rutherford that gave Squire the idea for his crime (substituting a body)…
At least Madison didn’t kill anyone.
Quite… Mind you, the lady who lost all her money to Rutherford, Brigitte Beck, might understandably have contemplated suicide. Others have taken their lives who lost their life savings to scams. I doubt it’d have troubled Rutherford much if she had…
I agree, Madison should be in prison instead of selling food & beverages that get one star on Yelp. Squire was even worse.
I know. To use an Americanism, Rutherfords’ a POS.
Amen.
PS Above CK ep is entitled ‘Forensic Files.’
I don’t think she was in on it.
He planned this for so long he even grew a beard yet he took the dangerous step of sending her an email telling her where to find his documents? Wouldn’t they have already discussed this if she was in on it?
They weren’t sleeping together, so there was no love lost between them. He didn’t just need money, he needed a fresh start.
His will went three ways, so his best friend or his sister could have sent him money after it was all settled, but he needed the instance to pay out first.
Someone already died, that can’t be undone, his wife’s facing financial ruin unless she gets the insurance, her husband just created an email trail that implicates her in a murder, and if she reports the emails the ensuing financial ruin is the least of her worries because a murderer would now be very angry with her. At the very least he’d stand up in court and say she planned the whole thing.
Those emails appear to be designed to implicate her after the event, and force her to do everything she can to cover his crime. She’d have known where the documents were otherwise, this was planned for MONTHS.
The poor kid is already dead, as distasteful as aiding him in escaping justice is, when you really put yourself in her position it could look like the only way out.
Dunno. But calling her the “evil wife” seems a bit premature. Authorities couldn’t charge her and it sounds like there WAS an amount of insurance?
Ockham’s Razor: Suppose there exist two explanations for an occurrence; the one requiring the smallest number of assumptions is usually correct.Another way of stating: the more assumptions you have to make, the more unlikely an explanation.
Squire’s emails: “designed to implicate her” or merely making contact after the event and fishing for feedback from the wife about police interest etc. Of course it was the latter! Lacking evidence to charge and lacking insight into guilt are quite different. Both wanted money: affection or not for each-other is irrelevant. “She’d have known where the documents were otherwise, this was planned for MONTHS”: lengthy planning doesn’t entail good planning; cf the power switched off at the fuse box to the garage that was hoped, it was clear, in investigators’ eyes would be assumed to have ignited the fuel via the broken lamp. A fatal oversight. Burned bodies are usually dentally examined (poor research planning/idiocy). Why, according to the wife, would Squire send emails about his death, delayed electronically)… before he’d died (“The widow would later claim that she thought the e-mails were written before her husband died, and sent automatically later.”)???
The fundamental question: how was he to access the insurance payout without her co-operation as spouse? She has to claim it. Then either she or one of the other beneficiaries has to pay him. Who was it mostly likely to be in cahoots – particularly given the emails? Squire would also have to have been confident that were she to see the body / be called upon to identify anything, she agreed it was him/his. Were she not in cahoots, there was the risk that she might demur, ruining the whole thing.
Finally, the wife was held liable for Justin’s death in civil court:
https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20100226/news/302269894/
meaning that on the balance or probabilities she WAS found to have conspired. So there was insufficient evidence for the criminal threshold but sufficient for the civil. No reasonable person could doubt her part (see her explanation for the emails, of nothing else) – for which she is indeed evil.
Of course the wife was “in on it”! A dead man cannit collect his own insurance payout now can he? THAT was her part in the plan. Watching this episode today and the one word that comes to mind is: “selfish.” It’s all about “Ari” and everyone else is immaterial.
The police have the emails from Denise to set up the crime well in advance of the fire. They are refusing to prosecute her because here in the US women are VERY often given preferential treatment. Some call it chivalry, gynocentrism, use whatever words you want but it’s not a lack of evidence that’s keeping her out of the electic chair.
The charge would likely be conspiracy to commit 1st degree murder, which typically attracts a minimum 10-yr sentence (there’s no death penalty in Illinois anyway). I hope the law catches up with her: this was an appalling crime, and the civil finding against her in ’10, that she did indeed conspire to murder, means that there was sufficient evidence on the balance of probability that she had a hand in it. Presumably the DA thinks it’s insufficient to reach the criminal threshold…
I don’t buy that it’s ‘cos of her sex…
Having thought more about Mrs Squire, it seems reasonable to suggest that the murder wouldn’t and couldn’t proceed without her co-operation. We don’t know for how long she knew what he was planning, so we’ll assume it wasn’t long; ie he did all the groundwork without her knowledge and presented the plan a day or two before the murder. There’s no evidence she was involved in the actual killing, but there is that she agreed to call the fire service and co-operate with the authorities, investigation, etc, and, significantly, ID (falsely) the body as Squire’s.
If we had to quantify her involvement for the purpose of punishment, what would be suggested? All things considered I’d suggest she’s one-third culpable to his two-thirds, based on a reasonable but conservative (in her favour) weighing of relative responsibility. Of course, she could’ve been in on this from the start – it could’ve been her idea, even – and the only significant difference is that he did the actual killing, but evidence of this is lacking.
We know that Mr Squire would’ve got life, likely without parole – in his case effectively a 40+ year sentence. If she’s half as responsible (one-third being half of two-thirds), that indicates c 20 years.
For a significant part in a murder for financial gain (an aggravating feature in some states that could entail the death penalty), I suggest that most people would think 20 years about right, though I recognise that attempts to quantify relative responsibility can seem crude and arbitrary, and that there seems a CASE for life for both seeing as dual premeditation’s clear and she was fundamental to the plan. Anything less than 20 years I’d argue is lenient.
Sadly for Justin’s loved ones at least, it seems unlikely Mrs S will face the proper consequence of her wickedness…
For those wondering about the insurance payout, as above, there was $1.3M paid out to ‘Beneficiaries.’ The linked judgment above shows that the $1.3M was interest on the original $5M, paid out in January 2011. (So, they still paid out, despite a reported suicide clause). The court ordered the insurance company to pay interest from the date of death in 2008…..with 9% interest, attorneys fees, etc, that’s where the $1.3M comes from.
“FILI paid the amount of $5,000,000.00 on January 12, 2011. (PR SAF Par. 1, 22).
Therefore, the court finds that the Beneficiaries were entitled to 9% interest on the
$5,000,000.00 from March 2, 2008 until January 12, 2011. Applying the statutory
9% rate to the $5,000,000.00 in proceeds due under the Policy for the period from
March 2, 2008 until January 12, 2011 yields $1,298,219.00 in interest. ”
So…who were the “Beneficiaries”? Earlier, in the document, it says:
“After the Newman Estate prevailed against Denise Squire in a civil jury trial,
Denise Squire assigned a significant portion of her rights under the policy to the
Newman Estate. In settlement of a separate civil lawsuit, Vaccaro also assigned a
significant portion of his rights under the policy to the Newman Estate. Thus, the
Newman Estate became a significant party in interest in the instant action.”
The Newman estate was awarded $6M in the wrongful death civil trial against Squire. Of the $6.3M in insurance proceeds, Squire and Vaccaro gave up rights to a ‘significant portion’ of the insurance proceeds to settle the case. How much a ‘significant portion’ may be up for debate. Hopefully it was the full $6 million.
Thanks so much for writing in with the details — whatever the amount was, I hope it made a difference to Justin Newman’s family.
Surprised it paid out at all, and given the civil judgement against Denise Squire that she *could* have received any to assign to the victim’s party. Not profiting from crime is a cornerstone of both law and morals.
I hope Denise Squire is yet answerable criminally given her almost certain involvement…
Some time later…
Thanks for this info. I wonder every time xx
Many people who knew Ari, pre marriage to Denise Frank, believe it was Denise’s idea to fake the death. Ari was a very sweet young man. He might have lived rich, but up to the end, it was easy to see she was the materialistic one. You really want to do research, Denise’s dad died under suspicious circumstances. AND by no way do I feel sorry for Ari. I feel sorry for Justin’s family and friends. At any time he could have backed out and Justin still alive today. I truly wish there would be some real justice.
It’s fruitless speculating whose idea it was, and it’s far less important than his actions. It’s simply absurd to contend Ari was ‘very sweet’ when he lured and murdered someone just out of boyhood. He may have seemed ‘sweet’ but he WAS wicked. He, Denise and his father had, furthermore, been in prior legal trouble over Medicaid fraud through a company he ran:
https://casetext.com/case/us-v-ari-squire-accucare
So that rather confutes any suggestion that this murder was an aberration at her suggestion: they simply stepped their fraud up to murderous level. He’s a murderer, she’s the appalling accessory.
You should fundamentally revise your estimation of him: they are (were) both scum.
So Ari selected Justin as one would select a sausage at the deli counter in order to enrich himself through his greedy machinations which in fact even surpassed the ineptitude and amateurishness displayed by most others and completely disregarded the level of forensic science.
Except Justin was an innocent human. So I’m fairly confident Ari, that *your* forever is being spent roasting in a much larger ‘diesel fire’ while being crushed under a great weight. Your devoted wife will be joining you soon enough. Maybe she’ll bring some jack stands.
Ari got off easy — he was a coward! He and his evil wife (Denise) impacted a lot of lives with their selfishness! Would be a wish come true if Denise were arrested!!! RIP Justin.
I agree — she clearly knew about the fraud plan and (probably) the murder plan as well.
Are you the very Sandy Lively that, by God’s grace, escape Ari’s hare-brained (yet tragic) scheme? My name is Erik Reed and I am from Southern IL. I like crime shows, such as Forensic Files, and it’s amazing (appalling) how materialistic people can be, and what depths they will go to, to get “a fast buck. “How are you and your family holding up, 14 years after this incident, if you don’t mind me asking? Thank you for reading this and good day!