The real events that inspired "Dead Before Dawn" happened in 1987 when Robert Edelman tried to hire a hitman to have his wife, Linda Edelman, murdered, reported the Dallas Morning News. When Linda heard about the contract out on her life, police detectives say she was very scared but not shocked by ex-husband's actions: "He had always said he would see me dead before he would give me a divorce," stated Linda Edelman. Police investigators say that Edelman needed to obtain a hitman to carry out the murder for hire scheme. James Young, a private investigator helped Edelman work out the details of the murder for hire but backed out at the last minute and sought out another person to do the dirty...
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