Money for Murder: Doctor Caught Hiring ‘Hitman’ to Kill Ex-Girlfriend (Prime Crime)
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- čas přidán 9. 03. 2023
- On this episode of “Prime Crime with Jesse Weber,” he takes you through the twisted case of Dr. Leon Jacobs, an abusive manipulator who used his money to get things done. What happens when a woman leaves a controlling relationship and won’t return? For Dr. Leon Jacobs, that meant hiring a hitman to murder his ex-girlfriend and his new girlfriend’s ex-husband. Find out what happened to the doctor after he paid someone $20,000 to do the misdeeds on this edition of Prime Crime.
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Did they not think if both their ex got murdered around same time it might be suspicious? Why do people insist they are smarter than the cops?
No matter how much true crime I watch I still can't wrap my head around how people can be so evil?
I completely agree.
@ALakes A jury of 12 disagrees. Nice hill to die on loser.
@ALakes if that wasn't a cop both ppl would be dead . We all know what he wanted done . I hate cops too but let's not pretend this guy is a good citizen.
@ALakes He said “tell her she better f_g leave or do what you have to do”. He certainly didn’t mean play cards!
No such thing as evil
Videos like this make me happy I'm single.
Exactly! I second that!
Unfortunately it can happen regardless of your status. 😢
Yeah, but the video is Dr. pays to have ex girlfriend killed your next girlfriend/ boyfriend I’m sure
LMAO
YOU NEVER KNOW....
It is so interesting that two people with the same crazy mindset find one another.
Bird's of a feather flock together🐦🐦🐦🐦
You’d be surprised how many people want their exs killed 😂
Like attracts like.
scary
@DejuhVu why kill them? They are Exes for a reason
I'm a huge true crime fan and THIS type of story is my absolute favorite! I absolutely love when the bad guys get it and there's no actual murder.
No murder kind of sucks and defeats the point. You might as well watch civil trials..
I get what you're saying though. This was an interesting case. I did enjoy it..
I watched the whole trial..
Karma baby!
Look up Wendi Adelson and dahlia Dippolito !! 😅
Kind of sucks and defeats the point? Weird take.
Can't imagine how it must feel knowing someone you use to love tried to kill you.
You'd be in total denial and disbelief, which would turn into anger and a strong desire to look them in the face in the court room while reciting your 'not a victim anymore ' statement and getting deserved hardcover justice. 😊
His arrogance when he took the stand got me. I was never so happy for a verdict to be read. I wonder how life in prison is. I'm sure that arrogance has been knocked down a few times.
Loved her victim impact statement to him. I hope you think of me the girl you called poor and uneducated I am the reason you will spend the rest of your life in jail.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 nailed it
Yes. Revenge is sweet.
The most tragic thing about this case is that the girlfriend threw her self of her balcony falling to her death. No one was actually harmed before this. This guy spreads death and sorrow and misery everywhere he goes. And he lies about it, blaming everybody else . Truly a sociopath. Glad hes in prison!
being the fact that he cant pass the boards here in the US, and so he goes elsewhere trying to be a doctor , "the easy way" whew, scary! i hope i dont ever get a doctor who got his degree the "easy way." they both sound like very very scary people...
Physicians who lose their licenses to practice in any state go to other states to practice. Medical licensing boards and the docs’ new employers are not required to disclose that info to the docs’ colleagues and patients.
What a Quality Human being!
Could you imagine him working as a Surgeon?
Narcissist ...Ego..Greed..Vanity...
Glad I'm single..
Your parents push you to meet a Dr..or Surgeon...No Thanks!
I'm a Flight Nurse from Texas and this case is just Wow!!
Both of them ?
Taking out each of their ex partners ....
Stay Safe!! ♥
As a transplant surgeon, harvesting organs, his patients were not able to check him for bedside manner
@@tesstess3371 hah true 😂
He was a wannabe Dr but ended up a loser
he changed his goal from saving people life to kill them , from a doctor to a killer 😳
The incentive to become a doctor can be anything under the sun, just sayin.
Technically he didn’t kill anyone and that’s not the charge he got sentenced for. But he got what he deserves and two people are alive. I’ll be interested in learning more about the woman that ended her existence to avoid facing the consequences of her poor choices. Im curious about her story…
@@hernandezb2178 which woman?
@@lovenature1919 the ex wife of the guy they plot to get killed. She ended her life before facing any charges that’s why it’s only this guy being charged but the gf who’s the ex wife of the victim was also charged.
some doctors have a god complex
I'm not much of a trial watcher but this entire trial was riveting and fast paced. The prosecutor who grilled Jacob on the stand was amazing and your coverage was top notch. I recommend it to everyone! This is one depraved and despicable man.
What was the sentence? I couldn’t believe they didn’t include that (unless I somehow missed it)
I can’t understand why some people just won’t move on from their ex’s
Because you're normal.
Because their Ego can’t take rejection. If they leave than it’s fine, but not the other way around.
This is awful to know people actually do this
So many don't even get caught, and get away with it every single day.
@@theageofgoddess I couldn’t agree with you more. When people die suddenly, especially after a certain age, it’s never assumed to be a suspicious death, unless someone raises a red flag. If you suspect someone might want to harm you tell someone, anyone, just in case…
@@neige4221 great advice 👍
@@Channel66678 It is great advice and they’re absolutely correct. I work in EMS and we get calls for deceased persons frequently. If the person is above the age of 65, and there’s no foul play suspected (ie evidence of a struggle, irregular injuries, weapons at the scene, etc) the Medical Examiner won’t even bother to do an autopsy.. even if the family requests it. It’s that cut and dry. Of course, if the family wants one badly enough, they can hire an outside service to do it (private autopsies are costly though [around 2k] and I’ve personally never seen family opt for one).
But to reiterate, an elder person could easily be poisoned or suffocated to death, and as long as the person covers their tracks, or enough time has passed that the body has started to decompose (12 hours), nobody’s going to blink an eye.
As Neige stated though, if family or a neighbor was alerted that someone wished to harm them first, it might be enough for the medical examiner to investigate.. or at the very least have family willing to pay for a private autopsy.
Haaaah I know this guy. Probably the weirdest story of my life but he became somewhat of a regular at Cambria Suites where I used to work and where Meghan was the GM before she left to be with him in Tx. We used to call him Dr. Strangelove years before any of this went down. When he moved down to Tx he used to call my best friend, who also worked in the hotel with me and who I lived with at the time, and she would put him on speakerphone and we would listen to him spout off for 30 minutes straight without her saying one word, complaining about his relationship and such. Still wild to watch this, there’s a 20/20 episode covering him as well
Him and Meghan would have made a good pair lol.
I had a friend that did that I'd leave it on speaker and go water plants. Come back still going
The Texas lawyer that said he didn’t think Jacob realized the consequences of his actions is ridiculous. If he didn’t he wouldn’t t be using an alias and burner phone…
If he was smart enough to become a Doctor he definitely was smart enough to know and understand the consequences of what he was doing 🙄
Ur NOT A DOCTOR if you CAN NOT PASS THE BOARD! He passed in Medical school but couldn’t pass the Board so he was NOT LICENSED TO PRACTICE in the USA!
Drs are some of the worst narcissits on the planet. Especially surgeons.
@Sherry He was kicked out of his 4 year surgical residency which prevented him from becoming board certified, a necessity for a surgeon, but in many states he would still be eligible to practice general medicine.
I will never get a grip of that part of a mans brain that totally shuts done and dismiss consequences of taking another's life. Like, they (suspects) become so fixated on planning the act so so much their mind does not go beyond life the next day after the killing. Oh no. Wait! They thunk about the next day but only about the positive. How can you have a brain to become a doctor with a beautiful woman in your arms BUT your are incapable of using the same brain to imagine the alternative lifestyle in a prison. Men are just a mystery. Valerie his girlfriend was just a follower. She was going along with the doctors plan.
He obtained his doctor's certification in a country that doesn't exist..Internet today you can be a gynecologist,or proctologist with in a few thousand dollars of payout.
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
that bread loaf mullet tho 😬🤭🤣🍻😁🙋♂✌😎
LEON, LEON, LEON, get comfy, you arent going anywhere!
additionally, leon, i dont know what kind of mirror you are looking into, but paleeese....it is broken. you failed as a doctor, and you are a murdeeing unattractive as heck (youtube wont let me write what i really want to write) so i have to be pleasant, but i am sure you know what i am trying to say, UGh UGH UGH!
Where does a fake doctor get money?
He had family money
His mother, a lawyer.
Thank you Jesse another great crime episode. You are the best.
I mean it should surprise nobody that he is found guilty because it is hard to prove that he wanted them dead or whatever but he definitely didn't stop any of it even tho he had tons of opportunities to stop it. That's what makes it unbelievable in my opinion
His reputation proves everything.
But he is sick tho. He has a dissorder that compells him to constant self preservation
@@FestiveParrot Self preservation?... I would say self VALIDATION, and he wouldn´t stop until everything was the way he wanted things to be. That´s called NARCICISM.Hemay have had other mental conditions, but I think the one I mentioned was the main one that led him to concot that plan.
Whatever happened to just moving on?
I still wish my exs the best.
There is no reasonable doubt. Jacobs should never have taken the stand. But that is what narcissists do. They think they are so smart and so good at acting that they can snow anybody. However, criminal narcissists constantly overrate themselves. I will bet you that his lawyers advised him not to take the stand but he always thinks he knows best and he talked himself right into guilty.
Absolutely!!
...and he found a woman who is just like him finally.
Like Alec Murdaugh. Didn't work for him either.
Wouldn’t it occur to you that if you’re in a relationship and both of your exes are murdered, that you’d be a suspect?!
I know right! They weren’t that smart! Lol
I have been happy with my husband. We have been married for 30 years, and I am thankful for my husband because he is an awesome man.
My husband is imaginary. We are trying to get pregnant. 🤞
I’m Happy for U
That's amazing 🌿🐝❤️
@@revekat2053 Ha ha ha ha!
Wholesome ❤️ how it should be
Pro tip: life is much less stressful if you don't kill people.
Psychopaths have extremely low stress levels, if any.
This is becoming more common the world is full of narcissists
This pretend doctor is not very smart at all. What did he think would happen when both ex's turn up dead?
lol exactly. How intelligent could he be?
I always go to Olive garden to plan my hits..🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡
I've been told that's not unusual.
Well why would people go to suspicious places to plot crimes? That’s too obvious.
Why else does one go Olive Garden?!
That soup and salad is a “hit”!
Yeah, on these crime shows they always go to an Olive Garden or a Red Lobster like place to plan their hits. What's with that?
Jacob is a gift to women? I don’t know on what planet that is because I wouldn’t give him the time of day, let alone even notice him in a crowd or by himself in a grocery store. Someone lied to that poor boy and the only gift he’s going to be to anyone, is someone’s b*tch in prison..
agree 😊
Regardless of police bating him , which they did bait him , but he could easily say , dude im done with this , i dont want any of this !
It's shocking that there are people who will actually hire someone to murder people, and pay for it. It's also shocking that people will actually kill for money
One important part is how good an actor Meghan is 😂
So Crazy that this would enter someone’s mind in a serious way.. then believe they can just go and hire someone off the street.
This is where my mind goes. Forget any anger or wanting not to share custody but when did e we get to a point that hiring a hit man is how we solve problems? I mean how does that even enter a logical mind?
This used to be what the mob did now folks with money just find random folks to kill others? It’s crazy! There are entire series on this. It’s insane!
Intelligence vs wisdom... He's book smart but hasn't a lick of sense
Maybe I'm missing some things ...but it seems like the whole time the guy is saying he doesn't want them dead.. and the police officer who is undercover is literally convincing him to want them dead
Thats exactly my thought.
u aint too bright
@@UTAH100 yeah let me take criticism from somebody who says "u ain't too bright".. LOL
@@fade2u lol being ironical. me also studied at an ivy league U
Still can't wrap my head around how this nice and very smart Valerie McDaniel could fall for this guy. I still remember how happy she was when she and her husband adopted this little girl. I am still sad how it all ended for her.
Wait is was she famous or known before this murder crime thing? How do u know about her child? Also why did they adopt not have their own kids?
@@lovenature1919 that previous poster was likely a client or neighbor of Valerie (who was a local veternarian)
Evidently she wasn't that nice and smart
@@aprilshorty4094 Completely true and agreed!
@@aprilshorty4094 Right lol. They didn’t include her private conversations with the hitman. I’m sure if they did, Gabriele wouldn’t be calling her nice.
If you take the stand, you're priority should be to come across as humble and to garner sympathy.
I love these episodes! I can’t watch all the live trials but appreciate these recaps!! 🙌🏽
I remember this case well.... this was done very sweet.,..Good job Jesse n crew ...
Thank goodness I'm not in need of a man...times have gone from "normality" to conveniently dangerous and never knowing it could happen to you with those you trust most...especially seeing how many of these cases are rising among couples splitting up or together it's sickening and relationships have become something scary these days...
Have you looked at the state of "women" nowadays too? Glad I married my high school sweetheart 15 years ago. Feminism has turned women into adults with the minds of toddlers that all seek out the dude with 30 tats and 1000 red flags.
Glad I’m not in need of a woman. Their just as crazy.
Yeah, but this isn't the norm. You might be watching too much true crime if these stories effect you so much.
lol most men are good people. It just reminds people to be careful and don't rush the dating process.
@@raregoodds3143 a lot of these hussies chase dangerous men and have the surprised Pikachu face when stuff goes sideways... " I can change him!""""""'cc
I love this show! Bigtime Jesse Weber fan!
100%
I think the "dr" understood very well what he was asking the fake hit man to do..I wonder if his Mother could see he was not right when he was young?
Maybe. But I'm sure some people can see when some people "arent right" you just cant do anything about it thanks to Hippa laws (which we dont need and got along well without)
Jacob was initially charged in the murder-for-hire plot last year with his girlfriend, Valerie McDaniel, a popular Montrose veterinarian who killed herself a short time after her arrest by jumping off a balcony at her River Oaks complex.
Oh no! she had a daughter too! What a mess!
Yeah, it was sad. She got dragged into his crazy crap after she met him. She was my friend's vet for his dog for years. She was nice. I h*te Jacob.
@@crimedogs She is with her father. Now we know why there was a custody battle.
I did feel for her. She was educated and popular with her job and notably a good mother.
It’s sad she felt she had no out. I think she could have turned on him and pled a shorter sentence.
Texas is very harsh on conspiracy and consider it equal to the crime. But she was manipulated no doubt!
8:50 - Being angry at the time
20:40 - Think of me in prison
Out on bond approx 2 weeks after arrest Valerie jumped off her balcony to her death. if any one was wondering
I thought narcissist and trouble from the moment the guy called himself a unlicensed transplant surgeon. What about you?
Unlicensed transplant surgeon? Lol
3:39 the Olive Garden? They’ve watched one too many mafia movies. 😂
Wow I thought my ex husband was a narcissist!! He’s tame compared to these two. Scary stuff.
How do people still commit crimes like this. 98 percent of them get caught
Both ex's die randomly, that's not suspicious at all!! Big brain
*I’m glad she took care of herself. Saved us all a massive amount of money*
You don't really understand what you're celebrating.. Nobody denies she wasn't guilty but even someone like her could've had her sins forgiven if she truly repented before God.. Instead she chose to end her own life and lost her soul of which value cannot be estimated in earthly terms!
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" (Mark 8'36-37)
@@Mike.Freeman I wasn’t celebrating. I have accepted the gift of Christ. Of course she could have repented and possibly even got a second chance at life, but her reputation was obviously so important to her that she would rather die than repent or continue living with her new reputation. Just because I have accepted Jesus Christ doesn’t for a second mean that I need to mourn the loss of a manipulative killer, because that’s really what she was. I respect where you are coming from, but since she wasn’t saved either way, I’m glad she took care of the expense of trials. And appeals and housing for 30+ years
@@Mike.Freeman and I always think about that when someone who isn’t saved passes. That’s why I try to share the gospel with anyone who will listen. Time is short and the harvest is near and plentiful.
@@nudetaynehatwobble again, if you're glad she 'took care of herself' rather than wishing she would've reconsidered, then it kinda' shows you're more interested in not loosing time & money with her sentencing rather than spending those potential large expenses in the hope that she might have seen that day of repentance..
Anyways, try to remember how the criminal on the cross found forgiveness even though, in the eyes of everybody else, he was a lost cause..
The joker face on him tells you he’s a sicko
What a piece of work.
This happened in TEXAS. Can't say I'm surprised.
Jacob is very, very scary. A wolf in sheep's clothing.
Strange he left the courtroom with a cup in his hands.. which could be considered as a weapon.
It looks like it could be a styrofoam cup
@@carljack1921😆
Hardly a weapon
One thing you can be assured of on earth is there wILL be DRAMA.
Thank you sincerely for those parting words.
From what Ive seen a Doctor in Central America is basically in charge of a 1st aid box and not much more.
No doubt this guy keeps a photo of himself in his wallet.
😂😂😂
Spot on that’s what I was thinkingg
Looks a lot like entrapment.
Great reporting
Ngl that guy looks like an undercover cop
This video is alternatively titled “how someone who had the world by the short curly hairs completely ruined his life”
Does anyone else notice how much this man favors ol Charlie Adelson? It may just be me since I've seen so much about his case lately.
How about we start running background checks on our significant other ? I know I certainly will and have.
People aren’t already doing that? 😬
Sounds like you have trust issues
@@lorainehayes sounds like that's the world we're currently on. Unfortunately.
@@lorainehayes this isn’t something to joke about Lori. If you are okay with your children or grandkids dating convicted felons, potential murderer, well not my problem. Stay safe!
@@lorainehayes is making sure you can trust someone by doing background checks an issue? Why not protect yourself and your family? I’m going I guess your single.
Compère has more bronzer on his face than a televangelist's wife.
He stated multiple times he just wanted her to leave the officer over or & over again pressured him into saying kill her which he never said
Well why else would someone hire a hitman
@@kia5941 great question
@@viralvidz7157 exactly 😂 so why say that if the answer was why hire a hit man if he didn’t want her gone in the first place
Anyone who puts a cap on while indoors at 03:00 in the morning SHOULD summarily be arrested
😂😂😂
😄😄😄
That has to be entrapment with the girl. He's pushing him to go further
These videos are fascinating to watch however now we all know some important information we shouldn’t
TG he was caught, he is a pure NARCISSIST at it's BEST, just HAPPY he will spend the rest of his day's in prison, this is Karma for all the pain and hurt he caused. Came back to bite him.
Five seconds in and the guy pricked my spiny sense. There is boasting and then there is delusions of grandeur.
spidey sense?
What a plot twist they were actually talking to detective Javier Duran
GOLD!!!! 👏
I feel the same way. Single life is a lot easier lol and safer.
Thank God they found him guilty and sentenced him to life in prison. This guy is a bad guy.
Free him
Scary situation. These survivors are so lucky to be alive. It's true to imagine if this wasn't undercover or had all this evidence. They may have gotten away with double murder. Totally creepy for ex's to work together to commit murder. Prayers for both of your recovery. 🧡💛🤍🤎💚💜🙏
The end credits music.. is this commercially available?
MONSTERS
I feel so bad for her.... I also (maybe) feel bad for the chiropractor. If he didn't do anything wrong, I can't imagine how he/she must feel. To know you affected someone like that. Sometimes things like that happen even when you're doing everything exactly right. Everyones body/chemistry is slightly different. Sometimes horrid things happen. I pray for everyone involved.
i always meet with hitmen at olive garden
Jesse is SO FLIPPING GORGEOUS!!! X
Any ladies want a sane, non-murderous and non-revengeful guy...here I am 😁
I want you!!! I need you!!!
Lol
@Gandalf Lmao
😂😂😂😂 Not advertising on a murder for hire episode. Hilarious
This was an epic story. I worked with someone very close to Valerie.
I wonder what caused her to join him in crimes? Was it drugs?
There was a program like Dateline or 20/20 that did a piece on this, and Valerie seemed like a pretty decent individual before this. How she could get involved with this creep is surprising, but people do weird things when they're at a low point in their lives. So sad that she jumped from the balcony of her apartment building - just couldn't face what was coming.
Not much of a murder guy, but I might go to the meeting at the Olive Garden for the unlimited breadsticks. I would have been interested in what everybody ordered, the only flaw in an otherwise highly commendable presentation.
Murder meetings should take place at greasy spoons so the participants are not too distracted by the food. Even then, steak & eggs? Better not to have the meeting at a restaurant at all.
Plus, if you've just eaten a fantastic meal like the Olive Garden Chicken Alfredo - how can you stay mad at anyone? Sit back, loosen the belt, sip some vino - heck, let 'em live. Satiety is not good for sustained homicidal rage.
Lesson! . . . Murder is not the solution!
Narcissists CANNOT help but get on the stand. It's hilarious, every time.
He took that song too seriously
We are living in a world today were people
lack compassion, kindness for the elderly.
How low can a person or persons get when
you dispose of a person in a container,
after killing this kind women. Our condolences go out to her family and
friends. God grant them the peace and
comfort they need, after this horrific
crime, committed to their loved one.
I hope they find the criminal or criminals
and give them a length prison sentence.
This undercover work was poor
What would you have done differently?
Seems Idaho is leaving no stone unturned in this case. Great news to hear, especially after all the naysayers so early in the case.
Equally despicable, reprehensible, terrible terrible people, they deserved everything they got!
Gotcha.... Hard to deny
How satisfying those arrests must have been!
Wow, Go Meghan. From her testimony it's clear to me he was abusive during their relationship. I'm glad she got out alive.
after watching that trial, his mom created a MONSTER. no child comes into the world believing they are the best thing ever