A California equestrian who tried to hire a hitman to murder her estranged husband fatally shot herself outside a San Diego bar after being released from prison, but before facing arson charges for burning down the couple’s Del Mar mansion. The San Diego County Medical Examiner later confirmed Remley sustained “a self-inflicted gunshot wound” and was pronounced dead in a “public square” when first responders could not revive her. The ensuing decade saw a string of off-again-on-again divorce filings between the two, some laced with domestic violence accusations from Tatyana that Mark denied. A day later, a friend of the Remleys told Mark that Tatyana had put a US$2mil (RM8.09mil) bounty on his head and was shopping for a hitman. Sheriff’s deputies arranged a sting and arrested Tatyana that August after she divulged “detailed information on how she wanted her husband killed and his body disposed” to an undercover detective, police said.

Source: The Star December 26, 2025 14:39 UTC