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The Murders of Makdessi & Brown

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In May 1996, two Navy petty officers were murdered in Virginia Beach, Virginia.  Investigators had to figure out if one of the murder victim’s allegations against the Navy was the reason behind their murder or if there was something more nefarious going on.  Was the murder scene staged?  Was the intruder truly an intruder or were they invited in?  Listen to this twisty tale of deception and greed and then join in the discourse by letting us know your thoughts.  

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Location

Our episode takes place in Virginia Beach, Virginia, located along the state’s southern coast as you exit the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.  It is ranked as the most populous city in all of Virginia with a little under 460,000 residents according to the 2020 census.  It is known as “America’s First Region.”  Virginia Beach is known as a resort town and holds a Guinness Book of World Records for having the longest pleasure beach in the world.  

This area of Virginia also is home to the Naval Air Station Oceana which is under the command of the Navy Region Mid-Atlantic.  It is home to approximately 20,000 Navy personnel including their families and is home to all East Coast strike fighter jet squadrons.  

One of those Navy personnel was a thirty-one-year-old petty officer, Elise Makdessi.  Elise had been trained as an air traffic controller at NAS Oceana and she was responsible for counting every single airplane that entered certain air spaces. However, in early 1996, she had been transferred from the tower down to the quarterdeck where base commanding officers and their staff have their offices and are the first point of contact for anyone coming onto the base.   

That spring on May 16, 1996, fellow Navy personnel would be shocked to learn that Elise had been murdered and even more surprised that another coworker would also not be showing up for work that day.

Unsuspecting

At 9:54 pm on May 15th, Virginia Beach, dispatchers received a call from a distressed male who identified himself as Eddie Makdessi.  He told dispatchers that “he killed her….I shot him.”  Emergency personnel was dispatched to an apartment building located off the Navy base.  When Virginia Beach Police Department (VBPD) Detective Dennis Santos along with other officers arrived on the scene they intercepted Eddie Makdessi, husband to Elise, walking down the external stairwell from the 2nd floor.  

Upon entering the Makdessi apartment they discovered Elise Makdessi tied to the bed, her dress pulled up and having been repeatedly stabbed in her chest and her throat had been cut.  She was barely alive.  Emergency personnel got to work quickly but unfortunately, Elise would die on her way to the hospital.  

Her alleged assailant was lying on the floor on the right side of the bed.  He had been shot several times in the chest and abdomen and was deceased.  The man was fully clothed wearing blue shorts and a red short sleeve shirt tucked into his shorts with white socks and sneakers.  He was lying in a way that his knees were bent and pinned under him.  A hunting knife would be found under the dead man’s hand by forensic investigator Elizabeth Dunton.  The blood on the blade would turn out to be primarily Elise’s blood and the blood on the handle that of her assailant, thirty-seven-year-old, petty officer Quincy Brown.  Later autopsy would reveal sperm found in Elise would belong to Quincy Brown. However, the autopsy would show no signs of sexual trauma. 

Story

Eddie would tell Virginia Beach Detective Paul Yoakam that he and his wife of five years had gone out that evening for dinner at Aldo’s Restaurant.  They had just entered their apartment when Elise went inside to use the bathroom and he turned his back to turn off the security alarm when someone struck him from behind knocking him unconscious.  When he awoke his hands were tied with electrical cords and he was lying on the bedroom floor.  He could see that Elise was lying on the bed with her assailant on top of her raping her and then stabbing her.  He claims that Elise called her assailant by his full name, Quincy Brown, as she begged him not to kill her.  

Eddie stated that he was able to get free and retrieve his gun, a Rossi .38 revolver from one of the nightstands he had been lying near.  Quincy jumped off the bed and came at Eddie who shot him from a standing position.  Eddie claimed he walked around the bed to check on his wife who had been tied to the bed at her hands and feet and as he reached for the telephone Quincy lunged at him.  There was a brief struggle in which Eddie’s hand was cut by the knife Quincy had been holding. Eddie fired two more shots, hitting Quincy who fell beside the bed.  Eddie then picked up the cordless phone and dialed 911.  

Eddie told investigators that he didn’t recognize Quincy Brown.  He was treated at the scene by EMS even though he was not suffering from any excessive bleeding, but since he says he was hit on the head Eddie was transported to the local hospital where he was treated by Dr. Harry Lustig for a possible concussion.  It was during his examination that Eddie told Dr. Lustig about what had happened, telling the doctor that he had retrieved his gun from the closet, not the bedside table.  

This would not be the first inconsistency to come to light during the investigation.

Videotape

Back at the crime scene investigators looking over the scene noticed that some of the evidence seemed to match Eddie’s version of events.  The entryway was littered with takeout containers where Eddie says he was attacked from behind.  The cords that had been used to bind his hands were on the floor of the bedroom where he says he had been lying down.  The hunting-style knife that Eddie says was used to stab his wife was found underneath the bed near Quincy’s right hand.  

At some point, investigators which now included Special Agent Brian Ricardo with the Naval Criminal Investigation Services (NCIS) obtained a videotape discovered in a lockbox within the apartment by either a search warrant or by Eddie giving it to them.  This video showed Elise making shocking statements of ongoing sexual assaults that if true opened a whole new area of investigation.  

The video shows Elise sitting on her living room couch and starts with her introducing herself and stating that she is making this video to protect herself and her husband.  Her next statement, “this is the story of my life as a defenseless woman in the Navy.”  Elise would go on to allege several incidents of sexual harassment and rape while she was on duty.  She claimed that two months after her arrival on NAS Oceana that two men in the cafeteria on base approached her and started taunting her about being married to an Arab and then they started to fondle her.  She claims that she reported the incident to her section leader who warned her that if she made a written report that she would not be successful and she would be disciplined for making a false allegation.  

Elise goes on to claim that in January 1996, an unnamed petty officer second class had come into the room she had been cleaning and raped her.  She once again tried to report the incident but was told to keep quiet because her assailant had used a condom and she would not be able to prove anything.  It was right after this incident that she was transferred to a desk job answering phones in the quarterdeck.  

Target

It was three weeks after her transfer that Elise claimed that she was raped again in the woman’s bathroom by an unnamed petty officer first class.  Afterward, the man warned her against saying anything or she and her husband could be hurt.   Elise went on to say that she had been collecting written reports from other Navy women who had been raped and harassed.  Soon she would have enough evidence to go to the media.  

Elise finished the tape by stating that she had not identified any of her assailants in the recording because she feared that Eddie might take the law into his own hands.  She claims that she made a list of names and placed them in her safety deposit box.  In the 48 Hours episode, The Double Cross, investigators stated that the journal was discovered in a fire safety lockbox in the apartment.  There was also another duplicate videotape in the safety deposit box addressed to local news stations.  What was written in the journals was basically what Elise had said in her video along with the names of the five (could be four) men that Elise claims sexually harassed and or raped her.  Quincy Brown’s name was on that list along with two other petty officers, and a commander.

Now VBPD and NCIS had two investigations on their hands.  The murder of petty officer Elise Makdessi and her allegations against Navy officers that had allegedly assaulted her.

Background

Elise was born and raised in New Hampshire and moved to Virginia Beach in 1994, with her husband, self-employed computer technician, Adie Eddie Ramez Makdessi.  The couple had no children.  Elise had always wanted to join the Navy and she followed her dream by signing up at the age of twenty-five in 1990.  

In looking into Elise’s military background she did well in boot camp.  She was then transferred to an air traffic control school in Memphis where she obtained the highest grade point average for the program at the time.  The military had her on course to become a certified FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) and Navy air traffic controller.  The next step in obtaining her certification was a transfer to NAS Oceana to the air traffic control tower. Elise may have been book-smart but she seemed to have difficulty putting what she had learned into practice and that was the reason for her transfer to the quarterdeck.  That is where she worked with Quincy Brown.  

Seventeen days after the murders petty officer Elise Makdessi was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors.  

Through continued questioning, Eddie claimed that his wife had been murdered to keep quiet and that Quincy Brown had been part of the conspiracy to keep her from talking.  He told investigators that was the reason for Elise’s demotion to the quarterdeck to keep her from talking.  

There was one problem: none of Elise’s supervisors were aware of the allegations that Elise had made on her videotape.  Nancy Simpson was Elise’s immediate supervisor and she told investigators that Elise had never said a word to her about being raped or sexually harassed.  The next person in the chain of command was also a female officer and she also had not been made aware of any allegations that Elise had supposedly made.  

There was also the issue that Quincy Brown didn’t appear to be the sadistic killer type.  He was a nineteen-year career Navy man who was married and had one child.  More importantly, he had no incidents or disciplinary action on his record during his time in the Navy.  

Other inconsistencies in Eddie’s version of events were starting to come to light. Investigators started looking at cell phone records and they discovered that Quincy Brown had called the Makdessi apartment at 9:35 pm and had a two-minute ten-second conversation with someone. This was twenty minutes prior to his murder. This was around the time of the attack at the doorway of the apartment according to Eddie. 

Another issue is that Quincy’s fingerprints were not on the knife and the shirt he was wearing did not have any of Elise’s blood on it.  Something else that stood out was that Elise had bought the gun at a sporting goods store just the night before the murder.  Investigators were starting to believe this was a setup but the question was why?

The Set Up

Through their investigation authorities started to develop a picture of what truly was going on starting back in April of 1996.  Eddie and Elise had met with local attorneys seeking advice about filing a complaint of sexual harassment and possible rape against the Navy.  They did not go into specifics but were just making a general inquiry.  On April 14, 1996, Eddie called and left a message for one of the attorneys asking if they would be willing to represent Elise.  The attorney called Eddie the next day but was unable to leave a message due to his cellular phone being turned off.  Neither Eddie nor Elise made any other attempts to contact either attorney.

Also in April Eddie and Elise purchased a $500,000 life insurance policy on each other making each other their beneficiaries.  The couple would come to find out that the Nave in May 1996, had increased the death benefits of their military personnel from $100,000 to $200,000.  

In mid to late April, Eddie and Elise had stopped by the home of another couple they were friends with.  They told the couple that they had been receiving threatening phone calls and that the tires on their vehicle had been slashed.  They shared with their friends that Elise had been having trouble at work but did not provide any specifics or disclose any names, but the couple was led to believe that it involved high-ranking officers.  

Elise told them that she had been transferred due to her filing a complaint.  The friend suggested that Elise make a videotape of her allegations.  Eddie also told the couple that they had already contacted an attorney who suggested that they gather more evidence before taking any legal action. Eddie told the couple that when the trouble was disclosed it would be “as big as Tailhook or bigger.”

Tailhook Scandal

Tailhook was a military scandal that occurred at the 35th Annual Tailhook Association Symposium in Las Vegas Nevada in September 1991.  This symposium gathered Navy and Marine Corps aviators, other military personnel, and defense contractors.  It was on the third floor of the Hilton Hotel hosting the event that most of the trouble seemed to occur.  The third floor housed hospitality suits and officers wearing civilian clothing would line the hallway forming a gauntlet.  Officers who had been drinking some of them quite heavily would then “grope, molested or commit sexual or physical assaults’ on women who would walk down the hallway.  

One of those women was Navy Lieutenant Paula Coughlin who was trained as a helicopter pilot but was currently working as an aide to Rear Admiral Jack Snyder at a Naval Air Station in Maryland.   Around 11 pm on September 7th, Lt. Coughlin exited the elevator on the third floor.  As she walked down the hallway with men lining both sides she immediately felt two men lift her in the air by her backside and push her forward.  One male officer then wrapped her in a bear hug from behind and began to put his hands up her shirt as they slid to the floor.  Officer Coughlin demanded he stop and started biting his hands and arms until he released her.  As she was trying to get up someone grabbed her crotch and tried pushing her underwear aside. 

 Lt. Coughlin then tried to enter one of the suites to escape the hallway, but she was blocked by two men.  She then asked an older officer for help but he just grabbed her breasts.  She eventually got into an empty room and collapsed in a chair.  A male officer that she knew found her a few minutes later.  She asked him if he knew what was going on in the hallway.  He told her someone should have warned her not to go down that hallway as it was “the gauntlet.”  

Reprecussions

Lt. Coughlin reported what happened to her to two officers and to her boss by phone that night and at breakfast the next morning.  Adm. Snyder made an offhand comment about what happens when Navy aviators get drunk.  Lt. Coughlin filed a formal complaint but when she felt the investigation was moving too slowly she went public with her allegations and that’s when this story blew up in the national media.  The result was an investigation by the Department of Defense that resulted in various consequences for approximately 70 individuals.  

Lt. Coughlin would resign from the Navy in May 1994, citing emotional distress and being unable to perform her duties due to the fallout from bringing what happened to her to light. She ended up suing the Tailhook Association and the Hilton Hotel.  The Tailhook Association settled out of court for $400,000 and in October 1994, a jury awarded Paula Coughlin $5.7 million in her suit against the Hilton Hotel.  Besides a monetary payout, the Tailhook scandal also brought to light the sexual abuse and harassment that women in the military face and forced some changes to how women are treated in the military.  

Piece of the Puzzle

Whether Eddie and Elise thought they could get a payout as big as Paula Coughlin or not by suing the military they didn’t seem to be aware that the military at the time could not be sued.  However, this didn’t seem to stop their plans to lay a foundation that Elise had been sexually harassed and assaulted.  

On April 24, 1996, Eddie and Elise met with a licensed professional counselor.  Eddie had made the appointment for Elise not wanting to put it in her name on the appointment in case the Navy found out about it.  Elise shared with the counselor that she had been sexually harassed while on duty and approximately three months ago in February she had been raped by an officer in her command.  Elise claimed that she reported this incident and since then she and her husband had been receiving threatening phone calls and their tires had been slashed.  

A follow-up appointment was scheduled but the couple later canceled that session.

Final Journey

On May 9, 1996, Eddie and Elise drove to Washington DC to visit Elise’s sister.  The next day the couple flew to New England to visit the rest of Elise’s family. The couple would return to Virginia Beach on May 13th around 7:00 pm and by 8:16 pm Elise would buy a .38 caliber revolver at a local sporting goods store.  Eddie was with her at the time she purchased the gun and registered it in her name.   

Dinner Plans

Investigators started to piece together what occurred on the day of the murders.  Both Elise and Quincy worked a 12-hour shift together that day.  That night Eddie and Elise went to dinner at Aldo’s Restaurant.  It was during dinner that Elise made two calls from a payphone at the restaurant. The first call lasted only four seconds and a second call soon followed, lasting only 20 seconds. 

A third call was placed at 9:36 pm and that call lasted two minutes and 10 seconds from the Makdessi apartment.  Investigators believe that Elise was then tied to the bed in perhaps a bondage-type scenario to make it look like a rape had occurred.  Investigators would find an unused condom in Brown’s pocket.  They would also find Brown’s Navy fatigue jacket thrown across the back of a chair in the living room.  His cell phone and wallet were found in his truck parked outside.  

Although authorities believed that Eddie had carried out both murders they needed more before they could file charges because some of what Eddie said happened matched the crime scene.  That is where NCIS and VBPD brought in Ross Gardner, a blood spatter analyst with the Army’s Criminal Investigation Command at Fort Gillem, Georgia.   

The Blood Tells All

Gardner’s final report was submitted in August of 1998.  He concluded that “nearly every aspect of Eddie’s version” of what happened couldn’t have happened like he said it did.  Starting with Eddie going to the nightstand and retrieving the gun and firing on Brown as he got off the bed.  The blood spatter showed that Brown was kneeling facing away from the nightstand when he was shot. That first shot penetrated Brown’s heart creating arterial spray.  The final shot came as Brown was lying back on the ground.  

There is also the phone evidence specifically what was left on the cradle of the cordless phone.  Eddie told authorities that after he fired his last shot he picked up the phone to call the police, however, there is blood spatter all over the cradle of the phone where it should have been protected by the phone if he had picked it up afterward. 

Finally, there was blood where they should not have found any; on the fitted bed sheet.  When investigators arrived on the scene that night Elise was tied tightly to the bed lying on top of a purple bedspread.  When the fitted sheet below the bedspread was examined they found a pattern of blood transfer from the knife on it.  

Gardner felt that Elise was most likely alive when Eddie made Brown kneel on the floor after he had sex with Elise.  Eddie shoots Brown then gets on the bed and stabs Elise while she is tied to the bed.  

Allegations

NCIS investigators had conducted over 200 interviews with both active duty and civilian personnel who worked on the base and could find no corroboration with the information Elise claimed in her journals or on the videotape.  The soldiers named in Elise’s tape also took polygraph exams. Each of them passed except the commander.  He eventually confessed that he did flirt with Elise and thought about having an affair with her.  They tested him again and he passed.   

In May 2001, prosecutors presented their evidence to a grand jury that wasted little time handing down two indictments for first-degree murder, one count of using a firearm in the commission of a felony, and one count of maliciously discharging a firearm in an occupied building.  There was only one problem.  Eddie Makdessi was no longer in the United States.

Take the Money and Run

In 1996, Eddie had filed claims to receive Elise’s insurance payouts, and since the preliminary investigation was still going on at that time and he was still seen as a victim in the crime both policies paid out.  Eddie left Virginia Beach and moved to Massacutes to be near his parents.  

However, trouble seemed to follow Eddie when on August 25, 1996, Eddie called the Massachusetts State Police and claimed that he had been run off the road by a man who then shot him and set his car on fire.  Police were skeptical of Eddie’s story as he had no penetrating wounds, especially if he had been shot.  

The hits kept on coming and on September 14, 1996, Eddie called the police once again to report that he had been kidnapped by two or three men, shot, and left for dead.  He claimed that he had been forced into the back of his truck, driven to a remote area, and shot two times.  Afterward, the men got in another vehicle waiting for them and drove off.  Eddie was not hurt as he had fortunately been wearing a bulletproof vest.  However, his truck was not so lucky as it had been sent over a cliff’s edge landing approximately 100 feet below.  Eddie claims that after he was shot he was able to jump from his truck grabbing his cell phone so he could call the police.  

The Massachusetts State Police found evidence that Eddie’s latest brush with death had been staged and he was charged with making a false police report.  

Syria

Eddie left the US in December 1996, to visit his grandmother in Syria and he returned on January 7, 1997.  In an appeal, I read it stated that near the end of February 1997, Eddie was deported back to Syria.  I could not find the reason why. I do know that Eddie met a nineteen-year-old Russian woman eighteen months later and married her a month later.  They lived for a year in Lebanon then moved to a town four hours north of Moscow.  

Unbelievable True Story

In March 2001, Eddie contacted Elise’s aunt Nancy telling her about his new family.  He also told her that he had written a story about the events surrounding Elise’s death.  He claimed that he had sent the story to several news outlets but none of them had published it.  Nancy asked for a copy and Eddie emailed it the next day.

The Unbelievable Story was about the cover-up surrounding Elise’s murder.  Eddie wrote that three men had been involved in the attack that night.  One man held Elise down, one tied her up and one raped her. Eddie then went on to claim that the death of a Navy admiral had also been covered up.  What had been reported as a suicide for Admiral Jeremy Boorda had actually been a murder.  Eddie said he had been contacted by an unidentified Navy officer who told him that Admiral Boorda had been shot in the chest two times because he was going to give a statement to the press about what Elise and all females had experienced in the Navy.  

Elise’s aunt upon receiving and reading Eddie’s story contacted the Virginia Beach detectives.  

Connection

Mike Mather, who had been a Virginia Beach news reporter, wanted to see if he could find Eddie Makdessi.  The two had met when Mather had been covering the murders and Eddie had taken the time to give him an interview and walk him through the crime scene, much to the shock of investigators.  Mather not knowing how to contact Eddie started by sending out emails with any free combination of addresses he could think of and one hit…Eddiemakdessi@hotmail.com.  Mather in the 48 Hours episode reported that he had broken the news to Eddie that he had been indicted for Elise and Brown’s murder.    Eddie agreed to an interview but only if Mather flew to Russia which he did in October 2002.  

It was a bit of cloak and dagger for the reporter as Eddie had him drive to a certain town then call him only to have him drive to another town and call him again.  Finally, Eddie told him to drive to another location, call him and he would meet him there.  Eddie told the journalist the same story he told detectives back in 1996, however, he added something new.  This time he claimed that when he gained consciousness there were three or four people in the apartment. 

Eddie told Mather that when he was in Syria they thought he was a spy.  He was detained and all of his money was confiscated which included a majority of the insurance payouts. He also reveals that moving to Russia hasn’t worked out the way he thought it would.  He was barely making it and wanted to get back to the United States.  Mather would arrange a plane ticket through the US Embassy but Eddie needed to produce a valid passport which he was able to do.  

Detained

Before any of that could happen Russian agents appeared and apprehended the group and confiscated their passports.  Eventually, Mather was released but Eddie was still detained with the question if Russia would allow him to return to the US.  Then one day Eddie shows up at the US Embassy gates asking to be let in.  The US State Department had been working with the Russians to get Eddie’s passport returned to him.   

On July 22, 2003, seven years after the murders, Eddie finally returned to the United States confident that he could beat the charges.  He left his wife and child behind in Russia.  Authorities are waiting for him at JFK International Airport when he lands and he is taken into custody. He was taken to the Virginia Beach Jail in August 2003 to await trial.

Justice Delayed

In preparation for Eddie’s trial hearings were held to determine what evidence would be allowed.  On September 28, 2004, a hearing was held on the admissibility of the videotape Elise had made.  Eddie was being represented by public defenders and the court ruled that the videotape would not be allowed into evidence.

Eddie didn’t agree with the ruling and began a campaign of filings against his public defenders.  He claimed that they refused to send him copies of discoveries or kept him informed about upcoming court dates.  Most importantly they did not get the videotape into evidence.  In November, Eddie wanted to represent himself which was granted by the end of that month.  In January 2005, Eddie wanted access to a law library and didn’t want to follow the procedure the jail had for obtaining legal materials.  This was denied.

By mid-January 2005, Eddie admitted that he was unable to represent himself and once again his public defenders were reinstated.  Eddie also tried to get the videotape into evidence by claiming it was a dying declaration.  The court again denied his motion.  

In March 2005, Eddie asked for new counsel once again dissatisfied with his public defenders.  Eddie claimed they thought he was guilty so they were not doing their best to represent him.  The judge gave Eddie two choices; you or them.  Two weeks later he tried to get new attorneys perhaps in the hope of delaying his trial.  The court once again denied Eddie’s request but in January 2006, Eddie’s public defenders asked to be removed from his case which the circuit court granted.  Another attorney was assigned and the trial was set for March 2006.  

Finally

On March 6, 2006, Eddie Makdessi’s trial began.  Fifty-one witnesses would testify in the ten-day trial.  Coworkers and friends testified that Eddie displayed controlling behavior towards Elise.  He would drive Elise to and from work daily even though she had her own car.  He would also constantly call Elise while she was on duty in the control tower.  Elise Superiors testified as to the reason for her transfer to the quarterdeck.  They testified that Elise lacked practical skills and the transfer was to prevent her from logging too many training hours and washing out of the program.  They also testified that Elise had never informed them of any harassment or sexual assaults.  

Family members and friends testified that the relationship between Elise and Eddie was an unusual one.  According to them, Eddie would discuss having extramarital affairs right in front of Elise.  He even kept a list of exotic dancers’ phone numbers in his wallet according to one friend.  Several witnesses testified that Eddie had attempted to show them or discussed with them his homemade pornography collection that featured Elise and others.   A friend of Eddie’s would testify to his massive porn and gun collection.  None of which was found when the police arrived on the scene the night of the murders.  The apartment had been cleansed.  

The claims director for New York Life Insurance Company testified that Eddie had called him almost daily for approximately three months until the claim was paid.  

Against his attorney’s advice, Eddie took the stand in his own defense.  Eddie would describe his marriage as idyllic and that he loved his wife.  However, neighbors had testified that they heard the couple arguing on several occasions. Eddie also testified to the night of Elise’s murder now stating that an entire squad of sailors were in the apartment when he gained consciousness.  

Jury took six hours and found Eddie guilty.  He is serving two life sentences plus thirteen years in a supermax prison in Virginia.  Eddie was also ordered to pay a $202,500 fine.  

Final Thoughts

So some final thoughts.  Supervisor and friend, Nancy Simpson, felt that Elise had been reading a script that Eddie had put together when she made that videotape.  Her reason for believing this is that Elise refers to the cafeteria as the cafeteria where one of the incidents took place.  In the Navy from the time you enter boot camp, you refer to the cafeteria as a chow hall.  This was telling Nancy that Elise would leave that type of mistake.  These were not Elise’s own words.

So was Eddie’s plan to extort money from the Navy the real plan or was it all a ruse?  I feel it was a false trail to get Elise to go along with what his ultimate goal was.  The insurance money.   Eddie Makdessi always intended to kill his wife and that is the reason he had gotten the life insurance policies and he knew about the Navy increase in benefits.  He also got rid of his guns out of the apartment but convinced Elise to get a gun of her own for protection which she did.  Authorities believed that Elise went along with it because she may have feared Eddie and definitely seemed to be controlled by him.  Quincy Brown was an unfortunate victim in Eddie’s deadly plan.  

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