A Florida woman apparently thought her husband's life was worth a pizza delivery van when she offered the vehicle to a hit man in exchange for killing her spouse.
The Polk County Sheriff's Office said Tanya Demirhan, 47, allegedly tried hiring a man to kill her husband of 17 years, Atilla Demirhan, with whom she owned a pizza parlor in Lakeland, according to ABC News.
County investigators were alerted to the alleged plot last Thursday when a friend of the Turkish couple told police the wife said she wanted her husband killed, the Lakeland Ledger reported.
Sheriffs say the wife wanted to pay the hit man- who was actually an undercover detective- $10,000 to do the deed but did not have the cash. So she offered to transfer the family's vehicle titles to the man as collateral, including a pizza delivery van, police told ABC News.
Tanya Demirhan also signed an affidavit promising to pay the rest of the money and gave a picture of her and her husband to the undercover cop, police said.
According to a recorded conversation between the wife and "hit man," she asked the detective for advice on how to react once the deed was done.
"What should I do in front of the police? Just cry?" Tanya allegedly asked.
"Yeah, that's what I would do," the unnamed detective replied.
Polk County authorities took the ruse a step further and pretended Atilla had been killed. Police stopped the wife during a traffic stop on Saturday and brought her to the police station where they told Tanya her husband was dead, ABC News reported.
"It's too much, too much," a sobbing and grieving Tanya said in a police recording of the incident. "He said 2015 is going to be good."
But she was busted less than 10 minutes later when the supposed hit man walked in. Tanya denied ever knowing the undercover officer and said there was no murder scheme.
Tanya was arrested and charged with solicitation to commit first-degree murder. The reason for her allegedly wanting her husband dead was not immediately clear.
As for the husband, he is safe but is "in absolute shock," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told the Ledger.
