“She further stated in this sworn statement that Savage told them that her (the victim’s) husband wanted the woman killed for the inheritance money cause the woman was sick. “Savage told them that he needed Buddy and her to go to Florida for him, stated to them that he would pay all expenses and that all they would have to do is make it burglary and that he also wanted them to smother a woman with a pillow.” Springer wrote.

She said that in October, Savage met with her and Wolfenbarger in a private room at the club. The woman, Patty Jean Thomas, told federal agents that her boyfriend, Buddy Wolfenbarger, worked as a bouncer at Savage’s Knoxville club. In a report filed on the case, Springer wrote that a Tennessee woman gave a sworn statement to federal agents in which she claimed that Savage had approached her boyfriend about killing Anita Spearman. Included in the court documents released Monday by the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office, were statements from people who said Savage had told them about the murder plot. “If someone asked me usually my pat answer is, ‘Well, hell, you can buy anybody’s life for 500 bucks in Miami.’ I don’t remember such a conversation,” he said. In a sworn statement, released Monday, the Wellington man denied having been contacted by Spearman about the alleged murder plot and also denied recommending that Spearman go through the magazine. “He further advised that (the Wellington man) had told Spearman to go through the Soldier of Fortune magazine to find someone to kill his wife,” Springer wrote. Springer, in his report, said that he had received an anonymous phone call from a man who told him that Spearman had contacted a Wellington man and asked him about killing his wife. Spearman came to the door or came into the room because of the noise, I was to shoot her as well and then make my getaway.” At that point, what Savage wanted me to do was to take the money from Spearman, shoot him and if Mrs. “Spearman would open the door, allow me in, and then he was to go and drive, give me the money and then drive off to work. “I was to knock, I was to go to the back door at an appointed time which would’ve been worked out before I went,” William Buckley said. Savage, investigators believe, later sent Doutre to Florida to kill Anita Spearman.Īccording to other documents released Monday, one of Savage’s former employees gave a sworn statement to investigators in which he said that Savage wanted him to kill Robert Spearman as well as Anita Spearman.

In a statement released earlier, a confidential informant told investigators that Savage met with Spearman but returned home after learning that federal agents had visited his Tennessee apartment. 16 and returned to Knoxville at 5:35 p.m. Later that same day, another call was made from Spearman’s office to the “Adjuster” and then, a few minutes later, to Savage in Knoxville, according to the documents.Ī copy of a bill from a travel agency indicated that Spearman purchased airline tickets used by Savage to travel from Knoxville to West Palm Beach three days later, other documents released Monday showed.Īccording to the bill, Savage arrived in West Palm Beach at about 10:15 a.m.

1986 soldier of fortune magazine