American Notes MARRIAGE

Two San Diego women were looking for someone to kill their husbands, police heard. Masquerading as a hit man, a detective claims, he got an offer of $10,000 from Judith Lynette East, 45, to knock off her Mark, 31, and one of $5,000 from Venise Lynette Morris, 27, to rub out her Michael, 41. The two women had more than a murder plot in common: Judith East is the mother of Venise Morris.

As the two were arraigned in San Diego's municipal court last week, police said neither knew the other had sought a hit man, though they had allegedly discussed their homicidal desires. Their presumed motives: money and money. Mother and daughter are in separate cells pending trials on charges of solicitation to commit murder.