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Friday, Dec. 10, 2010 | 12:47 p.m.
A picture of Nathan Paet is displayed Tuesday afternoon at a memorial service held at Nellis chapel. Paet was shot and killed Dec. 1 outside of his home as he was preparing to go to work.
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Metro Police said no other arrests are expected in the death of a Nellis airman whose wife is accused of helping to plan the man's death.
“We have all the players that were involved in this case,” Police Lt. Lew Roberts said Friday.
Roberts said Staff Sgt. Nathan Paet likely didn’t know any of the people – other than his wife – who were arrested in connection with his murder.
Paet, 28, was shot and killed Dec. 1 after he opened his garage door to leave for work. He went back inside the home after the shooting, in the 9200 block of Alta Monte Court, where he collapsed. Michael Rudolph Rodriguez, 31; Corry A. Hawkins, 33; and Jessica Austin, 23, were arrested in Nathan Paet’s death earlier this week.
His wife, 29-year-old Michelle Paet, was arrested Thursday and allegedly confessed to helping plan the murder, according to an arrest report.
“I’m sure the victim didn’t think they had marital problems,” Roberts said Friday. “She just wanted a better life, I guess, and wanted money.”
According to the arrest report, Michelle Paet and Rodriguez had been texting before the shooting occurred. A text from Michelle Paet about five minutes before the shooting said, “Can't go back to sleep right now. Got woken up from a man screaming I'm late. He's rushing to get out the door. Lol.”
When police contacted Rodriguez, he told investigators he was “having sex with an ex-porn star” during the time of the shooting, the arrest report said. The unidentified woman was supposed to receive 5 percent of what Rodriguez would earn from the murder, police said.
“We are looking at her involvement with the case,” Roberts said Friday. “She was supposed to be an alibi.”
Michelle Paet allegedly told police she helped plan the shooting to collect money on her husband’s life insurance policy. She allegedly also told police she helped plan the shooting because she and Rodriguez wanted to pursue a romantic relationship, authorities said.
The Paets had four children together, police said.
Paet, from Guam, was an F-15 supply section technician assigned to the 757th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron. He had been stationed at Nellis Air Force Base since 2007.
Wow. What a rotten thing to do to someone.. I just don't get how stupid people can be. My heart goes out to the Paet family.
I think this is so terrible. A person kills someone for money. Isn't someone life more important then that. The four kids are left without a father. So very sad. I hope his wife suffered like he had to do.
What a sorry bunch, especially the supposed wife.
Now you know what a SNAKE looks like. Use the Death Penalty on this scourge of the earth. Believe me the kids will not be losing a mother because, that skank will never know what the word means.
I hope they have that star witness, the ex-porn star, under witness protection, from the smirk on the triggerman's face it doesn't appear he is the least bit remorseful. I'm sure he has connections in and out of jail.
With all of Hawk's fresh priors it's amazing he was not still serving time.
What is also ironic is the ignorance of the conspirers here. First, even if this was pulled off and the Black Widow was able to collect that poor man's insurance money, she would not have been able to transfer such a large pay off to her partners in crime without raising suspicion which
would have caught them anyways.
And, I wonder how she feels now that her boyfriend trigger man was "cheating" on her with the ex-porn star?
Prayers to a distinguished serviceman who lost his life in what should have been a safe haven, his own home. And prayers to the poor children who lost both a mother and father due to greed and ignorance.
Metro's performance this pass week has been superb. They collared a lot of cold-blooded killers and that doesn't cure pass wrongs, but it certainly is something worth commending.
For at least this week, I can say I'm proud of Metro.
My heart goes out to the paet family. Especially the children, it breaks my heart for those kids....what more did the wife want, she is just so evil and mostly dumb....omg, she must have been doing drugs with the other 3 people she knew that plan this. i would say drugs were also involve here...
I guess this Michelle wanted a life of crime, my understanding Rodriguez had quite a criminal history. I'm kind of surprised that the children are in the custody of FPS and not in the hands of Paet's family. For being high school sweethearts, its amazing what money will do to a person. Michelle didn't know how good she had it, roof over her head, food on the table, free medical and a person who cared about her. She didn't like that life, now she can enjoy a life with basically the same,minus freedom.