A woman from California has been sentenced to 27 years in prison after pleading guilty to plotting to murder a divorce attorney from Indiana.
Renee Perillo, 54, Glendale pled guilty on counts of conspiracy to commit kidnapping and murder-for-hire.
Perillo wanted to kill attorney Rebecca Eimerman because she was looking to get her hands on unpaid divorce settlement money from her boyfriend, Dr. Arnaldo Trabucco.
Perillo’s son, Richard, was also involved in the plot and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit kidnapping and transportation of a firearm across state lines with the intent to commit a felony. He will be sentenced later this month and faces a life sentence.
Renee Perillo, 54, of Glendale, California will has been sentenced to 27 years in jail. Her son, Richard Perillo, 24, of Laughlin, Nevada, will be sentenced later this month on December 14
Renee Perillo, 54 has been sentenced to 27 years in prison after pleading guilty to plotting to murder a Noblesville, Indiana divorce attorney
Divorce attorney Rebecca Eimerman, pictured, was the target of the murder-for-hire plot
Eimerman was pursuing unpaid settlement money from Perillo’s boyfriend, Dr. Arnaldo Trabucco of Fort Mohave, Arizona, on behalf of his ex-wife but the scheme began to unravel one May morning in 2015 when Eimerman’s husband got into his wife’s Chevrolet Suburban to back it out of the driveway. He saw the Perillos in the back of the SUV and called the police.
The two were still in their SUV when police arrived and claimed to be homeless, according to an affidavit.
The Perillos had a handgun with them and were also carrying a lethal dose of anesthesia called succinylcholine.
The Perillos also had several identification and credit cards belonging to Eimerman, who said she had left her wallet in the SUV, police said.
Richard Perillo, pictured, bragged to an inmate he had gone to Indiana to kill a local attorney
Unpaid: Attorney Rebecca Eimerman was pursuing unpaid settlement money from Perillo’s boyfriend, Dr. Arnaldo Trabucco, pictured, of Fort Mohave, Arizona, on behalf of his ex-wife
The pair were arrested on drug and gun charges before being released on $20,000 bail, but the pair skipped town. Richard Perillo was in San Diego and Renee Perillo in Montana.
After the two were booked in the Hamilton County Jail, Richard Perillo bragged to another inmate he had gone to Noblesville, Indiana to kill a local attorney
According to the Indianapolis Star, police continued their investigations while the duo were on the run.
Eimerman had recognized Renee Perillo as the woman who was dating a client’s ex-husband and told authorities she feared for her life, meanwhile Richard Perillo had bragged to two inmates in the Hamilton County Jail that he had traveled to Noblesville to kill a local attorney.
When police found the Perillo’s car it contained a shovel, latex gloves, duct tape, a hammer, a tranquilizer gun, a machete, a blond wig and a silicone mask of an elderly man’s face.
Police searched Renee Perillo’s phone and found multiple Google searches of Eimerman and her home, the affidavit said. The phone contained photos of Eimerman’s home and her SUV.
‘This devious plot to murder and kidnap a victim is beyond any logical comprehension,’ United States Attorney Josh Minkler said in a statement. ‘Ms. Perillo will have many, many years in the Department of Corrections to think about her actions.’