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Hi, I’m Mollye Barrows, a longtime reporter in Florida’s Panhandle and welcome to my investigative series, Gulf Coast Confidential. Here I dive into the saltier stories that surface in Northwest Florida and all along the Gulf of Mexico.

My co-host is Pam Hill. Her sister was killed by her son in a brutal not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity and she has a unique perspective on many of the cases I talk about on Gulf Coast Confidential. 

In this episode, “Making Killer Deals” we’re talking about the failed murder-for-hire plot that put wealthy, Pensacola car dealer Ron Samuels in prison and left his ex-wife paralyzed and on a ventilator for the rest of her life. 

Samuels was used to making deals that worked for him. He was willing to pay anything, including hiring cocaine addicted hit men to kill her, rather than pay what the court ordered him to give to his ex-wife and the mother of their three children. 

Here’s how the final deal went down that finally sent him to prison. 

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