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Jilted businessman accused in botched murder plot
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DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (UPI) _ They tried to kill him with a crossbow.
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And a gun. And a bomb, a truck and a Molotov cocktail.
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Police say all five attempts by hitmen to kill Edward Coulter
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failed, but the botched attempts led them to their prime suspect,
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Philadelphia businessman Alfons Kessler, 47.
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Kessler was charged Friday with conspiracy, attempted murder and
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related charges for allegedly trying to arrange the death of
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Coulter _ who is married to Catherine Coulter, Kessler's former
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lover of 10 years.
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Police unraveled the case when one of the accused hitmen was
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badly hurt last week by a pipe bomb he was trying to plant at
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Coulter's home.
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``I'm not so sure they failed so miserably,'' Assistant Bucks
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County District Attorney Dale Reichley said Friday. ``I wouldn't
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call them a bunch of misfits ... this was a powerful bomb.''
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Kessler was Catherine Coulter's boss as general manager of C.A.
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Spaulding Co., a tool company. Mrs. Coulter was the firm's
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controller.
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Prosecutors said Kessler allegedly hatched the murder plot after
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Catherine Coulter last year broke off a 10-year affair with him.
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Reichley said Catherine Coulter has not been charged in the case,
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and the investigation is continuing.
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Between September and February, Coulter was shot at with a
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crossbow and a gun, was nearly run off the road by a truck and
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someone tossed a Molotov cocktail into his dining room.
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Coulter was unaware why he was being targeted, and police had
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been providing him with escorts to and from work.
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One of the accused hit men, Wesley Rankin, 44, was arrested Feb.
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27 after the pipe bomb he was trying to plant in the garage of
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Coulter's Bensalem home went off prematurely, blowing off his right
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hand and forearm.
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Police said Kessler paid Rankin $2,500 for the bombing, and an
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undisclosed sum of money for the other attempts.
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Authorities are still looking for the second accused hit man,
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Dwyaine Farley, 23, of Philadelphia.
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