Wife crashes her own funeral, horrifying her husband, who had paid to have her killed

[TCE]

Noela Rukundo sat in a car outside her home in Melbourne, Australia, 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.

Here is how she pulled it off.

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.”

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[Ibis]

She fucked up a perfectly good long term cover for a short term thrill.

 

[Lucifer Alpha]

The hitmen will be shamed for gender discrimination.

 

[El Chimpo]

cant wait for hollywood to make this a movie

 

[Ibis]

cant wait for hollywood to make this a movie

Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper?

 

[milliniar]

The hitmen will be shamed for gender discrimination.

maybe they just have a code.

 

[El Chimpo]

Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper?

that or depp and bonham carter

 

[Bald1]

8 kids? That's the shocking story, not the attempted murder bit.

 

[EmpireShallFall]

Was VroomyJeeps the husband?

 

[marioh]

Hope if they do make this a movie, she sits up in the casket in the middle of the wake instead of waiting until after the funeral to make her appearance.

 

[spin]

8 kids? That's the shocking story, not the attempted murder bit.

Not really, they come from a third world country, and those aren't known for their love of contraception.

 

[uWot]

This is like some bad Bollywood movie.

The kidnappers had morals and let her go? Where did the husband find them, in a Cracker Jack box?

That said, it's a feel-good story. I wonder if those people who kidnapped her got in trouble though. I mean, they did take her at gunpoint and held her for two days.

 

[Bald1]

Not really, they come from a third world country, and those aren't known for their love of contraception.

I understand that.

My point is the state imported immigrants from an incompatible culture, and now they're saddled with 8 mouths to feed.

 

[spin]

I understand that.

My point is the state imported immigrants from an incompatible culture, and now they're saddled with 8 mouths to feed.

Really? That's the story?

 

[Bald1]

Really? That's the story?

Breaking non-story!! Man fails to have wife assassinated! Amusing story at 5.

That's not news worthy except as a fluff piece.

 

[loyalyolayal]

Waltzing Matilda was based on this heroine's trials that she went through.

 

[Thai Otoshi]

lulz@the story

I understand that.

My point is the state imported immigrants from an incompatible culture, and now they're saddled with 8 mouths to feed.

Don't War Room it up in here.

 

[Bald1]

lulz@the story
Don't War Room it up in here.

Shit. Forgot where I was. My bad.

 

[SherdogGoat]

The hitmen will be shamed for gender discrimination.

wouldn't be surprised if the hitmen are a bunch of scarfs and fedora wearing male feminists

 

[Oenomaus]

Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper?

Nothing says "Congolese husband who tried to have wife killed" like Bradley Cooper