Buddy Musso had the intellect of an eight-year-old and stayed at an assisted-living facility, across the Hudson River from Manhattan. When he was 59, he met Sue Basso at a church carnival in New Jersey and fell in love.Basso lured Musso to the Houston area with promises of romance. After they were married, she purchased him a small $15,000 life insurance policy naming herself as the beneficiary. The policy, however, would pay out $60,000 in the event that Buddy died a violent death.Basso intended to make sure that he did. She hired a gang of thugs to kick and beat Buddy with belts, baseball bats and steel-toed shoes. They also scrubbed his body with a wire brush, and doused him with a mixture of chlorine bleach and pine-oil disinfectant. The police found his body dumped by a roadside.Basso became a suspect after reporting Buddy missing, following the discovery of his body. She was arrested and charged with torture and murder, and her daughter was among the witnesses testifying against her at her trial. Found guilty, she was executed by lethal injection under Texas law last February.