His brother, Roger Nicholas Angleton, was arrested in possession of a contract for a murder in exchange for $100,000 per year for ten years, in addition to cassettes containing audio recordings purportedly of conversations between himself and Robert planning the murder of a woman named Doris in exchange for money.

[3] Although her friends believed that she was happy, Doris had reportedly told others that she wanted out of her marriage when she started talking to others in online chat rooms.

In February 1997, Doris initiated divorce proceedings, seeking fifty percent of the assets she shared with Robert.

Doris suspected more wealth existed and threatened to turn him in to the Internal Revenue Service in an attempt to gain more of his estate during the divorce.

[3] On April 16, 1997, Robert expressed concern when Doris failed to show up for their twin daughters' softball game.

After the game, he drove the girls home and found the front door ajar, at which point he called the police.

[4] Around the time of the murder, Doris's brother-in-law, Roger Angleton, had been arrested in California on unrelated charges.

A Dutch court ruled that he could not be extradited on a charge related to the murder of his wife because he had already been found not guilty.