Wife Crashes Her Own Funeral Terrifying Her Husband Who Paid To Have Her Killed

[CbabyRKO]

Noela Rukundo sat in a car outside her home, watching as the last few mourners filed out. They were leaving a funeral — her funeral.

Finally, she spotted the man she’d been waiting for. She stepped out of her car, and her husband put his hands on his head in horror.

“Is it my eyes?” she recalled him saying. “Is it a ghost?”

“Surprise! I’m still alive!” she replied.

Far from being elated, the man looked terrified. Five days earlier, he had ordered a team of hit men to kill Rukundo, his partner of 10 years. And they did — well, they told him they did. They even got him to pay an extra few thousand dollars for carrying out the crime.

Now here was his wife, standing before him. In an interview with the BBC on Thursday, Rukundo recalled how he touched her shoulder to find it unnervingly solid. He jumped. Then he started screaming.

“I’m sorry for everything,” he wailed.

But it was far too late for apologies; Rukundo called the police. The husband, Balenga Kalala, ultimately pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nine years in prison for incitement to murder, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corp. (the ABC).

The happy ending — or as happy as can be expected to a saga in which a man tries to have his wife killed — was made possible by three unusually principled hit men, a helpful pastor and one incredibly gutsy woman: Rukundo.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...d/?postshare=761454688445987&tid=ss_tw-bottom

 

[Kittyskyfish]

Wasn't there a CORPSE to go along with the funeral?? Who died and was in the coffin?

 

[CbabyRKO]

Rukundo’s ordeal began almost exactly a year ago, when she flew from her home in Melbourne with her husband, Kalala, to attend a funeral in her native Burundi. Her stepmother had died and the service left her saddened and stressed. She retreated to her hotel room in Bujumbura, the capital, early in the evening; despondent after the events of the day, she lay down in bed. Then her husband called.

“He told me to go outside for fresh air,” she told the BBC.

But the minute Rukundo stepped out of her hotel, a man charged forward, pointing a gun right at her.

“Don’t scream,” she recalled him saying. “If you start screaming, I will shoot you. They’re going to catch me, but you? You will already be dead.”


Rukundo, terrified, did as she was told. She was ushered into a car and blindfolded so she couldn’t see where she was being taken. After 30 or 40 minutes, the car came to a stop, and Rukundo was pushed into a building and tied to a chair.

She could hear male voices, she told the ABC. One asked her, “You woman, what did you do for this man to pay us to kill you?”

“What are you talking about?” Rukundo demanded.

“Balenga sent us to kill you.”

They were lying. She told them so. And they laughed.

“You’re a fool,” they told her.

There was the sound of a dial tone, and a male voice coming through a speakerphone. It was her husband’s voice.

“Kill her,” he said.

And Rukundo fainted.

Rukundo had met her husband 11 years earlier, right after she arrived in Australia from Burundi, according to the BBC. He was a recent refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and they had the same social worker at the resettlement agency that helped them get on their feet. Since Kalala already knew English, their social worker often recruited him to translate for Rukundo, who spoke Swahili.

They fell in love, moved in together in the Melbourne suburb of Kings Park, and had three children (Rukundo also had five kids from a previous relationship). She learned more about her husband’s past — he had fled a rebel army that had ransacked his village, killing his wife and young son. She also learned more about his character.

“I knew he was a violent man,” Rukundo told the BBC. “But I didn’t believe he can kill me.”

[…]

Rukundo came to in the strange building somewhere near Bujumbura. The kidnappers were still there, she told the ABC.

They weren’t going to kill her, the men then explained — they didn’t believe in killing women, and they knew her brother. But they would keep her husband’s money and tell him that she was dead. After two days, they set her free on the side of a road, but not before giving her a cellphone, recordings of their phone conversations with Kalala, and receipts for the $7,000 in Australian dollars they allegedly received in payment, according to Australia’s The Age.

“We just want you to go back, to tell other stupid women like you what happened,” Rukundo said she was told before the gang members drove away.

Shaken, but alive and doggedly determined, Rukundo began plotting her next move. She sought help from the Kenyan and Belgian embassies to return to Australia, according to The Age. Then she called the pastor of her church in Melbourne, she told the BBC, and explained to him what had happened. Without alerting Kalala, the pastor helped her get back home to her neighborhood near Melbourne.

Meanwhile, her husband had told everyone she had died in a tragic accident and the entire community mourned her at her funeral at the family home. On the night of Feb. 22, 2015, just as the widower Kalala waved goodbye to neighbors who had come to comfort him, Rukundo approached him, the very man whose voice she’d heard over the phone five days earlier, ordering that she be killed.

[…]

Though Kalala initially denied all involvement, Rukundo got him to confess to the crime during a phone conversation that was secretly recorded by police, according to The Age.

“Sometimes Devil can come into someone, to do something, but after they do it they start thinking, ‘Why I did that thing?’ later,” he said, as he begged her to forgive him.

Kalala eventually pleaded guilty to the scheme. He was sentenced to nine years in prison by a judge in Melbourne.

“Had Ms. Rukundo’s kidnappers completed the job, eight children would have lost their mother,” Chief Justice Marilyn Warren said, according tothe ABC. “It was premeditated and motivated by unfounded jealousy, anger and a desire to punish Ms. Rukundo.”

Rukundo said that Kalala tried to kill her because he thought she was going to leave him for another man — an accusation she denies.

But her trials are not yet over. Rukundo told the ABC she’s gotten backlash from Melbourne’s Congolese community for reporting Kalala to the police. Someone left threatening messages for her, and she returned home one day to find her back door broken. She now has eight children to raise alone and has asked the Department of Human Services to help her find a new place to live.

And lying in bed at night, Kalala’s voice still comes to her: “Kill her, kill her,” she told the BBC. “Every night, I see what was happening in those two days with the kidnappers.”

Despite all that, “I will stand up like a strong woman,” she said. “My situation, my past life? That is gone. I’m starting a new life now.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...d/?postshare=761454688445987&tid=ss_tw-bottom

 

[gatekeeper]

Despite all that, “I will stand up like a strong woman,” she said. “My situation, my past life? That is gone. I’m starting a new life now.”

^^^This was the reason for the awesome in the second story. And this is what made me throw my fist up in the air and holler, "YES!!" LOL. The Congolese do *not* play. Much, much love and well wishes, Noela! {{{{ You're amazing! }}}}

 

[Muriel Schwenck]

Wasn't there a CORPSE to go along with the funeral?? Who died and was in the coffin?

The funeral was held when the husband returned to Australia without a body, claiming she had died during a visit to Burundi.
[doublepost=1454711398,1454711347][/doublepost]I hope she chooses the next man very very carefully.

 

[Athena]

I'm pretty sure the thoughts that just went through my head about the quality of the Congolese community world fucking wide would probably be best narrated by the voice I imagine Jack to have.

I hope this woman is able to raise those children without anymore strife than what the teenage years tend to dole out. And mad props to her for her stunt. I hope the look on her husband's face was every bit as delicious as she had dreamed it would be.

 

[JackBurton]

She's an idiot for surprising a dude she knew wanted her dead like that, especially given the legal trouble her alive state would bring. I'm shocked he didn't kill her right then and there. Dumb prideful woman.

Did any of the kidnappers get busted? Weird if they didn't, although i would hate for them to not be permitted to keep the money.

she’s gotten backlash from Melbourne’s Congolese community for reporting Kalala to the police

So scummy black people are big on the "snitches get stitches" thing everywhere. Interesting.

 

[Keepalowprofile]

That's so awesome.

 

[Nell]

An Australian woman showed up at her own funeral, terrifying her husband, who police say paid to have her killed.

Noela Rukundo, a mother of eight, was visiting her native country of Burundi in January 2015 for her stepmother’s funeral when she was kidnapped, according to The Washington Post.

Her husband called her while she was resting in the hotel room and urged her to go outside and get some fresh air. It was a trap. A man pointed a gun at her and forced her into a car.

While tied to a chair, Rukundo listened to her kidnappers talk to her husband, Balenga Kalala, over the phone.

“Kill her,” he told the gunmen.

The Washington Post reported Kalala paid the kidnappers $7,000 to murder his wife, but they did not believe in killing women. They kept the cash, but set Rukundo free and gave her evidence to incriminate Kalala.

Five days later, Rukundo stepped out of a car outside her own funeral and approached her husband.

“Surprise! I’m alive!” she said to the father of three of her children. He screamed and asked her if she was a ghost.

http://fox8.com/2016/02/05/suprise-im-still-alive-woman-crashes-her-funeral-in-murder-for-hire-plot/

 

[GenericUser123]

CBaby already posted this. Reported.

 

[Sevens My Charm]

Damn didn’t that woman smile in that moment the same way the day she married that sorry excuse of a husband and man. Check mate!

 

[Nell]

CBaby already posted this. Reported.

Please tell me the point of this? I've asked repeatedly why people say "dupe" or something like that when we have a report button. Is it to make the person who duped feel like an ass?

And this isn't directed just at you GU, so don't get upset. But I really wanna know why.

 

[GenericUser123]

Please tell me the point of this? I've asked repeatedly why people say "dupe" or something like that when we have a report button. Is it to make the person who duped feel like an ass?

And this isn't directed just at you GU, so don't get upset. But I really wanna know why.

Just wanted you to know.

 

[Nell]

Just wanted you to know.

When it was merged I would have gotten a notification.

 

[Macabre]

Eh, I just do it as a courtesy. Never to be mean.:shrug:

 

[Nell]

Eh, I just do it as a courtesy. Never to be mean.:shrug:

But it's already posted. It's here. So how is it a courtesy?

 

[Snoods]

After two days, they set her free on the side of a road, but not before giving her a cellphone, recordings of their phone conversations with Kalala, and receipts for the $7,000 in Australian dollars they allegedly received in payment, according to Australia’s The Age.

Total FAIL as hitmen! I can't imagine they'll get much repeat business what with turning in their paying customers and giving the killees all the evidence they need to nail their wanna be killers to the wall.

They're not your every day rough and tumble, ol' meanie killin' type assassins, but a new, friendly kind of non-killing hit man. They'll tousle your hair a little and maybe give you a noogie. And a stern talking to!

Lol I love her "Surprise!" Hahahaha

 

[Macabre]

But it's already posted. It's here. So how is it a courtesy?

It's more like "Hey, someone already posted this, so I commenting to let you know I read yours, and wasn't just being a dick."

I also thank duped posts.