A woman dubbed “New York’s black widow,” convicted of commissioning the murder of her millionaire and cheating husband, is set to be released next month, after 12 years behind bars.
On October 23, 1990, George Kogan was killed on the 69th street on the Upper East Side, New York. That day, he had been discovered lying on the ground by Mary-Louise Hawkins, his girlfriend, who lived in an apartment right there. In 2010, twenty years after the fact, the wife of the millionaire shot dead by three bullets, Barbara Kogan, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in connection with the contract placed on her husband’s head. Next month, after twelve years in prison, she will be released on parole. “It’s an animal. Barbara is extremely good at manipulating people, even those in charge of her probation “, reacted in the”New York Post»Mary-Louise Hawkins, who does not look favorably on this court decision.
At the time, Barbara Kogan got her nickname “black widow” because of her tailor-made suit worn at her husband’s funeral. It was also revealed that the day the man was operated on in hospital after the attack, she was having her hair cut at the barber. For almost two decades, this now 77-year-old woman had managed to escape the police. In her request for parole, Barbara Kogan claimed that she had never ordered the murder of her husband to receive the 4 million life insurance. She also said she was shocked to learn of her husband’s death. “When he was killed, I was shocked”, she commented, contradicting her own plea in 2010. If the justice decided to release her, it is in particular thanks to her discipline in prison, but also her unexpected and blunt apology in which she said she felt “horrible”.
“My goal was to make sure she stayed away from her sons”
Yet for the past 30 years, Barbara Kogan would have manipulated everyone, swears Mary-Louise Hawkins, who was 28 at the time and has now rebuilt her life away from New York. Barbara Kogan is said to have even harassed her husband’s girlfriend during the years preceding his arrest. “She got my parents’ number and would call them every now and then in the middle of the night to surprise them, to remind them once again that she wanted the money and valuables that she thought was George. had left behind, ”wrote Mary-Louise Hawkins in a letter addressed to the agents in charge of deciding the release of her enemy. She also recounted the shock she experienced when she found her boyfriend lying on the street. “You have no idea what panic really is until you see someone you love lying in a puddle, not a torrent of blood,” she continued.
She also claimed that the victim was not happy in her marriage and that starting a relationship with a new girlfriend was a revelation. He was so serene with this life that he even told his wife that he wanted a divorce. “George told me Barbara called him fat, and she said he disgusted her. When I met him, he was so miserable, he was killing himself little by little. He didn’t want to go home, ”she said. “My goal was to make sure she stays away from her sons, because she’s going to go find them to make sure they feel sorry for them. But they have suffered enough, ”said the one who, in 1993, had moved to Europe to escape the media and Barbara Kogan.
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