Cory Martin, a 36-year-old male, was arrested for murdering and dismembering a woman in New York City in April 2018. He lived in Rosedale, Queens, with Odom and others. Odom and this other person were sex workers for Codys. In March and December of 2017, Martin and the other guy illegally got ahold of two life insurance policies under Odom’s name and made premium payments to the life insurance companies by Western Union money orders using a debit card, which were all Odoms. Later during the trial, the other person admitted that she and Cory would watch true crime and contemplated what to do and what not to do. In early April 2018, Cody went into Odom’s bedroom and strangled her. Cody and the other girl bought cleaning supplies and cleaned up …show more content…
He is now serving a mandatory life sentence in prison and is charged with “murder-for- hire, aggravated identity theft, murder-for-hire conspiracy, wire fraud conspiracy and fraudulent use of identification.” I think that this is crazy and I also think that its dumb. How are they going to watch all that true crime and more and prepare and plan to screw it up? Like you did all that and dumped it in the park? The public park - a must! I think at that point he wanted to get caught because why didn't he go into incognito mode on his device(s)? It said, “she and Martin watched the true crime TV show The First 48 about police tactics, which would lead them to discuss “what not to do, and what things to do to avoid being caught by the police”. I chose this because I thought that the way he did it or the reason would be interesting, it wasn't. He did it because he wanted her insurance which he didnt even end up getting, if anything he spent more money on that saw and cleaning supplies, a $100 dollar saw and you doing it for money might as well steal it at that point. This relates to the topic we were studying because this was a