This is a news story that developed over the past few weeks. Let me know if you want links to the full story - here I am just relating the broad approximate outline.
One morning we woke to a rather unusual story: an Emergency Room nurse in her fifties arrived home late at night after her shift ended, when she was allegedly attacked by an alleged burglar surprised in her house (I don't know the legal requirements, so I will just liberally season the story with "allegations").
She then strangled the alleged intruder in alleged self-defense. Afterward she walked over to the neighbor's house to call the police.
So far so good - a rather surprising story, but one that we can just about process.
A few days later, we woke to the follow-up story. Police had arrested the nurse's estranged husband. The alleged burglar was employed by him at his place of business, and had allegedly been hired for some extra-curricular activity namely murdering the estranged wife, allegedly going so far as letting the alleged hitman into the house by disarming the alarms and opening the doors.
Next time I find the plot of a mystery or thriller a little far-fetched, I will have to remind myself of stories like this.
