A wealthy businessman was dressed in a diaper or sumo wrestler’s garb for sexual role playing with his dominatrix mistress while planning the murder of his wife, the “hit man” he hired says.
Alexander Petraitis appeared to have just finished a sadomasochistic or domination sex game with his mistress, Sandra Lynn Rinella, when he answered the door of her Scarborough apartment in what may have been a diaper to plot the killing, the supposed hit man testified Monday.
Kerry Bob Anderson told Ontario Superior Court he hid a tape recorder in his sock to secretly record the conversation. The tape was played in court.
“I’m just going to grab her. I’ve got a way of putting a person in a sleeper and breaking her neck in a second,” Anderson said at the January 2004 meeting.
“All right,” Petraitis replied. “But the question is if you come in and grab her . . . I’ve obviously got to try and attack you and beat you up.”
Petraitis, 68, former chairman of magazine wholesaler Metro News, and Rinella, 47, are jointly charged with conspiracy and counselling to commit murder between September 2003 and January 2004.
Anderson testified he extracted more than $100,000 from Petraitis for the murder, but never intended to follow through.
He said he recorded the conversations to protect himself.
But he later planned to use the tapes to extort $1 million and a Hummer from Petraitis, or he would send them to the millionaire’s wife, Kirsten Petraitis, he said.
In his cross-examination, Rinella’s lawyer, Joseph Neuberger, suggested Petraitis and his mistress were engaged in fantasy role playing rather than really planning a murder.
“What you understand is that sometimes people who are quite wealthy, they just do things for excitement or a thrill?” Neuberger said.
“That’s right,” Anderson replied.
Anderson agreed that when he arrived at Rinella’s apartment to secretly tape the three-way conversation, Petraitis answered the door in what appeared to be a diaper or sumo wrestler’s garb. He said it could also have been a toga.
“The fantasy or role-playing relationship that he had with my client was part of his relief for boredom?” Neuberger suggested.
“That’s right,” Anderson replied.
He also agreed that Rinella played along with Petraitis’s fantasies to support herself and her “raging cocaine addiction.”
Anderson also agreed with Neuberger that he previously testified at a preliminary hearing that the case was crazy because two people were on trial “for a murder they didn’t want to commit.”
“That’s not how I feel today,” he added.
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