Wife Crashes Her Own Funeral After Husband Paid To Have Her Killed

No one ever thinks about how they’d walk into their funeral — because no one would ever have to. However, Noela Rukundo considers herself one of the lucky (or maybe unlucky) ones who had that option.

Here’s how it went down.

A year ago Noela flew from her home in Melbourne to Burundi, with her husband Balenga Kalala, to attend her stepmother’s funeral. As she laid, stressed out, in her bed at the hotel, her husband called and told her to go outside for some fresh air. As soon as she did, however, a man charged forward, pointing a gun at her.  “Don’t scream,” she recalled him saying. “If you start screaming, I will shoot you. They’re going to catch me, but you? You will already be dead.” The man then kidnapped her, throwing her into a car, driving 40 minutes to a building and pushing her in. “You woman, what did you do for this man to pay us to kill you?” one man asked.  “What are you talking about?” she asked. The man replied, “Balenga sent us to kill you.”

Fortunately, the men had a heart and didn’t believe in killing women, so they were going to keep the $7,000 Noela’s husband paid them, and tell him that she was dead. Two days later they dropped her off on the side of the road. “We just want you to go back, to tell other stupid women like you what happened,” Rukundo said she was told before the gang members drove away.

Noela devised a plan and with the help of  Kenyan and Belgian embassies she was able to return to Melbourne. Meanwhile her husband was telling people that she died in a tragic accident. 

On the night of Feb. 22, 2015, Noela sat in her car outside her home, watching as the last few mourners left her funeral. Then she saw her husband, so she stepped out of the car to confront him.  “Is it my eyes?” she recalled him saying, terrified. “Is it a ghost?”

“Surprise! I’m still alive!” she replied.

Thinking she  was a ghost, he even touched her shoulder to make sure she was real. Finding out that she was completely solid, he jumped back, “I’m sorry for everything,” he wailed. Noela Rukundo called the police on her husband who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nine years in prison for incitement to murder.

I thought things like this only happened in movies. 

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