Would-be Vegas hitman s story ends in Irish jail

The story is straight supermarket thriller, full of half-predictable twists, jealous girlfriends, wealthy businessmen and Eid armed with not a gun, but poison. While several Irish newspapers have spent the past year digesting every angle of the story, the American press has largely ignored it. And so Eid is infamous in another country but has been anonymous here

Consider it a test-drive for the Ireland fiasco.

The intended victim, a loan broker from Southern California named Anne Royston, got her first call from the casino employee in September 2006. He told Royston he wanted her to refinance his house. Within days, Eid and a woman he identified as his assistant were in Royston

Royston could save her life by paying the balance on the contract: $37,000. Then the Vegas couple left, giving Royston a few days to come up with the money. Instead, she called the police.

With an FBI agent listening in, Royston called Eid. During the phone conversation, Eid said he lied about his name, which was really Tony Luciano. It would not be the first time Eid, an Egyptian, would claim this made-for-TV-movie Italian alias.

Royston he wanted only $20,000. When Royston told him she was worried that someone else would be hired to kill her, the hit man told her not to worry: Only 700 people in the world work as hit men, and his father, Michael Luciano, is boss over all of them. If any of them got a contract on Royston, his father would know, and therefore, so would she.

One day after this phone call, Eid and Engle flew to Ireland, where they would attempt a carbon-copy crime. Eid must have thought he was on a roll and that he

Engle met Eid five years ago in a Michigan casino where he dealt poker and she played. At the time, she was living with her second husband and their teenage daughter. She and Eid had an affair, and when Eid moved to Vegas in 2004, she followed.

After drinking, Eid and his two wives would have group sex, though both women told police they didn

That, however, was one of the few things the two women agreed on.

Engle told a court psychologist Eid had promised to divorce his wife, but it never happened. Instead, Engle says, he slowly started to control and abuse her. She says he threatened to kill her and leave her in the desert. He made her cut off contact with her family. He bit her and hit her, she alleged.

Engle told the psychologist Eid made her drink his blood and urine.

The real estate developer wanted to leave his fortune to his sons, and would not marry Collins. Sure, the couple had promised themselves to each other, had thrown a party and even served wedding cake, but they never officially tied the knot.

So Collins, desperate to marry Howard, figured out a way to get what she wanted, at least kind of: She visited the Web site proxymarriage.com and paid $1,000 for a Mexican marriage certificate that required neither partner to be present. Now his wife on paper, Collins might be entitled to Howard

Howards pay off the contract, for 100,000 euros, or about $158,000. Robert agreed to meet Eid at a hotel the following evening.

Robert also called police to report he was being extorted. Officers were waiting down the street from the hotel when he arrived and found Engle waiting to broker the exchange.

Instead of getting more euros, Engle and Eid got arrested.

She flew back to her home in Ohio, where she has remained since late 2006. At the request of the courts, she has made trips back to Ireland and California, where the Royston extortion case is ongoing. Ireland granted Engle immunity after she made a deal with Irish prosecutors to testify against her husband, according to Sunday Tribune reporter Mark Hillard in Dublin.

Eid, on the other hand, has remained in custody since his arrest, and the murder for hire trial has become one of Ireland

Egyptian hit man from Las Vegas, a millionaire target, a money-hungry blonde.

Five months after Eid was arrested, the Irish cops got Collins too. They searched one of the computers Eid had stolen and discovered the e-mail sent from Lying Eyes to Tony Luciano.

Collins, however, has denied any involvement. She claims she was being blackmailed by someone else, a woman named Maria Marconi, who somehow got access to her computer and was sending the e-mail to Luciano. Marconi, Collins claims, was a friend she made over the Internet, an American confidante. When the FBI looked for Marconi, however, they couldn

Ricin inside. That evidence, on top of the e-mail, the phone calls, the testimony from Engle and the money Lying Eyes sent to Vegas, was enough for a jury to find Eid and Collins guilty. Collins was convicted of soliciting and conspiring to murder the Howards. Eid was convicted of extortion, which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in Ireland, and assorted theft charges, for the office break-in.

The poker dealer has been described as being rather buoyant about the whole experience, enjoying

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