what's in a name?
Thu Jun 11 11:22:28 EDT 2015
I wouldn't have thought "Daniel Ott" was that common a name....Authorities said a hit man broke into an Ohio home in 2006 and killed 31-year-old Daniel Ott with a shotgun in what was a paid act of vengeance for his willingness to testify against the operator of a stolen car "chop shop" operation. But the shooter killed the wrong Daniel Ott. The only thing the slain Daniel Ott was guilty of was having the same name as the intended target.
Detectives were baffled by the slaying. They followed the usual playbook, looking at Ott's activities and the people who knew him. They got nowhere. Ott worked at a greenhouse nursery and lived an unassuming life with his girlfriend in quiet Burton Township [Chardon, Ohio].
It took six months before detectives learned there was another Daniel Ott, a man who they suspected was the hit man's real target. And it took another eight years or so to finally solve the case.
The Daniel Ott who the hit man was paid to kill has survived two assassination attempts, the sheriff said. He would not say where that Daniel Ott lives for his protection.
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I wouldn't have thought "Daniel Ott" was that common a name....Authorities said a hit man broke into an Ohio home in 2006 and killed 31-year-old Daniel Ott with a shotgun in what was a paid act of vengeance for his willingness to testify against the operator of a stolen car "chop shop" operation. But the shooter killed the wrong Daniel Ott. The only thing the slain Daniel Ott was guilty of was having the same name as the intended target.
Detectives were baffled by the slaying. They followed the usual playbook, looking at Ott's activities and the people who knew him. They got nowhere. Ott worked at a greenhouse nursery and lived an unassuming life with his girlfriend in quiet Burton Township [Chardon, Ohio].
It took six months before detectives learned there was another Daniel Ott, a man who they suspected was the hit man's real target. And it took another eight years or so to finally solve the case.
The Daniel Ott who the hit man was paid to kill has survived two assassination attempts, the sheriff said. He would not say where that Daniel Ott lives for his protection.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/746082.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]