Police in Texas have arrested a published crime writer who allegedly tried to hire a hit man to kill her husband.
Nancy Mancuso Gelber, 53, has been charged with solicitation to commit capital murder. Gelber is being held at the Brazos County Jail on $75,000 bond.
"It's crazy. It's crazy to hear. I'm kind of speechless," Gelber's close friend, Brandi Pointer-Castillo, told The Huffington Post.
According to the Brazos County Sheriff's Office, investigators received a tip last week indicating that Gelber was trying to find a hit man to harm her estranged husband, 54-year-old Joseph Richard Gelber, Jr.
The two were planning a divorce, but still lived together in their home in Bryan, located about 80 miles southeast of Waco. An undercover investigator posing as a hit man contacted Nancy Gelber on Dec. 7, and the two agreed to meet later that night.
Nancy Gelber previously and publicly detailed the couple's marital problems on her Facebook page. On April 29, she wrote, "Thank you all for [your] support during my horrible surprise of coming home from Houston to find to my husband cheating ... I wish the pain would go away and so could I from this hell I'm living in."
Pointer-Castillo said Gelber had also discussed the marital problems with her.
"She told me he cheated [on her] with a friend," Pointer-Castillo said. "Nancy was not the same person after that. She was totally different and was not the same Nancy at all. She was someone I did not even recognize or know. It was a total transformation, and she just carried on about him. It was all about him."
Prior to her split with her husband, Gelber had her sights set on becoming a career writer. Her first novel, Temporary Amnesia, was published in August 2010. The 362-page book –- dubbed a "crime thriller" -- is a fictional story about a man who breaks out of prison and uses a team of prostitutes to pull off several brazen bank robberies.
When Harry "Inchbomb" Lightman breaks out of prison, it isn't just to escape the death penalty; he is intent on pulling off the boldest bank robbery of all time! On the loose, and with help from other escapees-a doctor, a computer nerd, and a pimp-they devise a plan involving fifty prostitutes! The ladies are dosed with a combination of drugs that causes each to have amnesia temporarily and do anything they are told. Harry's "Inchbombs" are sewn into each woman's chest, then they are sent out simultaneously to 50 different banks with orders to rob each of six million dollars! When the police get involved, they find out the hard way that the bombs are real as the women blow themselves up when their demands aren't met!
Detectives Walker and Zgabay have orders to go after Lightman and his gang, but are detoured when a lunatic goes around the country killing the gang's friends and relatives in horrifying ways.
Along with suspense and terror, this crime-thriller has a touch of levity and romance. Temporary Amnesia will blow your mind! At times you may even find yourself siding with the bad guys!
"Along with suspense and terror, this crime-thriller has a touch of levity and romance," reads the book description on Amazon.com. "Temporary Amnesia will blow your mind! At times, you may even find yourself siding with the bad guys!" For the price of $30.00!
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