In this episode, Garrett and Payton dive into the case of Ramon Sosa, a man who thought he had a happy marriage—until he discovered his wife "Lulu” was plotting to have him killed. What followed was a shocking twist involving betrayal, survival, and an unexpected police operation. Watch this unbelievable true crime story unfold.
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This is Murder With My Husband. I'm Payton Moreland.
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Alright. If you found out somebody wanted you dead—like, was really going to kill you—who would be the first person you'd tell?
Probably the police, right?
Oh, no, I know, because when you don't have any proof...
No, I would tell you first.
Aside from that, it's a little hard for the authorities to make any move on that. Like, if you just go to the cops and say, "This person wants to kill me," but you don't have any proof, they're like, "Mhm."
They could offer you some advice, but until you have concrete evidence that this person wants you gone, you're either on your own to collect that evidence, or you just have to wait and see how it all plays out.
Well, Ramon Sosa wasn't a sit-around-and-wait kind of guy. When he learned his estranged wife wanted him out of the picture for good, he took matters into his own hands. And even then, he still ended up in a shallow grave with a gunshot wound to the head.
Oh my gosh.
I thought—okay, but how he got there was completely unexpected.
So let's unravel this story.
We are in Carolina, Puerto Rico.
So you're telling me that throughout the entire episode, I have no hope that he's going to live?
Yeah.
Okay.
So that is where Ramon Sosa called home for the early years of his life. As the son of a professional boxer, Ramon took an interest in the sport pretty young. Going to the same gym where his father trained, he got to see the stamina and self-discipline that went into boxing, and he fell in love with it quickly.
At the age of seven, he began training with some of Puerto Rico's top boxers, and for the next 10 years, he stuck with it. By the time Ramon turned 17, he was a force to be reckoned with. He had gone pro and earned himself the nickname The Puerto Rican Express. I imagine that nickname came from how quickly he knocked out his opponents.
But eventually, Ramon became a bit disillusioned with the sport. He started to feel like he was nothing more than a cash cow—"a piece of meat," as he put it—when he realized people only cared about making a buck off him. So that's when Ramon decided to take a step back. He went to school, began focusing on his studies, and then he met a woman.
He fell in love and started a family. They had three kids—Mitchell, Chris, and Mia—and eventually, they all moved to Houston, Texas, a place where Ramon had spent some of his earlier years and had fond memories of. But even in America, he never stopped feeling the call of the ring.
Instead of lacing up his own gloves, Ramon started coaching other professional boxers around the Houston area.
Okay, so he's moved to America, he's married, he has kids, and he's graduated from boxing. Now he's becoming a coach.
And if you were in the boxing game in Texas, there was a good chance you wanted Ramon literally in your corner. His career as a trainer was really starting to take off. He was flying all over the country with his boxers, attending parties at the Playboy Mansion, rubbing elbows with Mike Tyson—this guy knew what he was doing.
Which might have been part of the problem for Ramon.
Because once again, he started to see the ugly side of the sport—the part driven by greed and the need for fame. And Ramon didn't want that for himself. So again, he took a step back.
He began training amateurs and kids from gangs or troubled backgrounds who were looking for direction in their lives.
Money, man.
Mhm.
Ramon opened up his own gym, which helped support his family—even set them up pretty nicely when it started to rake in cash. But by this point, Ramon’s first marriage was no longer working. He and his wife divorced around the year 2000, and for a while, Ramon wasn’t sure if he would ever find that kind of love again.
That is, until 2007, when 40-year-old Ramon went to a nightclub with some friends—and everything changed.
And I’m not judging, but a nightclub at 40 sounds like my actual worst nightmare.
Okay, I feel like Payton and I—
I can't even nightclub in my 20s.
Yeah, I'm not going to lie. Payton and I went to Vegas, and we tried.
We went to bed.
Yeah, it was so late. We went to bed. We couldn’t do it. I couldn’t possibly do it.
We just went to bed instead.
Call me what you want, but sitting at home, watching some TV, relaxing—that’s the thing to do.
Even in the completely packed club, Ramon spotted her almost immediately.
Across the dance floor, the Latin beauty would meet Ramon’s eyeline and quickly look away. Then, over the course of the night, the two found themselves inching closer on the dance floor—until she stepped on Ramon’s toe with her six-inch heels.
If you asked Ramon, that wasn’t an accident—it was destiny.
He asked her if she wanted to dance, and the rest was history.
Ramon wasted no time falling head over heels for this new woman, Maria de Lourdes—but luckily for me, she went by Lulu.
She was originally from Mexico and, like Ramon, was also a divorced parent. She had a son and a daughter who had come with her to America on a visitor's visa, and this only drew Ramon in further.
At first, Lulu seemed to be the hardworking mother and doting girlfriend Ramon had always wanted. She cleaned houses and worked as a masseuse to support her two kids. And when she wasn’t tending to her clients or her children, she was fawning over Ramon—cooking him dinner, giving him massages, waiting on him hand and foot.
Which was probably why Ramon put a ring on it.
In 2009, on March 15, after being engaged for a little under four months, they walked down the aisle together.
But that day, Lulu’s mother whispered something to Ramon.
She said, “Lulu is your problem now.”
And she wasn’t joking.
Ramon thought she was joking. Wished she was joking. But some part of him already feared there were going to be problems—problems he was already sweeping under the rug.
Ramon’s teenage daughter, Mia, saw the ugly side of Lulu pretty early on. She could sense that Lulu didn’t want to get to know her or her siblings at all. She said it seemed like Lulu had no plans to actually become their stepmother—or even a friend, for that matter.
And even worse, Lulu had started driving a wedge between Ramon and his kids.
They were seeing their father less and less as Lulu complained about how much money he was spending on them. Eventually, things got so tense that Lulu didn’t even want his kids at their wedding.
Mia and her siblings found out secondhand that their father and Lulu had gotten married—without even inviting them.
Which would break any kid’s heart.
But now, there was no getting rid of this woman. It seemed like she was going to be in their lives forever.
That’s crazy.
Especially when Ramon went into business with her the following year.
It’s actually interesting how many stepparents are wicked.
Yeah, like, I know some of you listening right now have some wicked stepparents.
And I’m sorry. That sucks.
I truly don’t understand how people can be like that.
Well, Lulu’s obviously a different story, but I’ve been listening to a couple of podcasts that have wicked stepparents, and the stepparents talk about it in the podcast.
And it’s like—they have reasonings, you know? They were selfish, or—
I don’t know. Reasonings that don’t make sense.
And it’s like, then don’t get married, bad person.
Yeah, like, there’s an innocent kid involved in this!
So, Ramon goes into business with Lulu the following year.
In 2010, Ramon opened up his second gym—with Lulu as his business partner. They shot commercials together promoting the new business, smiling side by side. And like Ramon’s first gym, this one was another hit, with about 200 members a month.
Suddenly, the couple was raking in about $22,000 a month in profit. They were able to buy a brand-new house, a motorcycle, and new cars. For a while—aside from the situation with the kids—things seemed to be going pretty well for the couple.
But around 2015, cracks started to appear on the surface. Lulu began complaining to friends about Ramon, saying she was doing all the work around the gym while he was just kicking back. The more money that came in, the more issues the couple had, and their fights became increasingly ugly and drawn-out.
Over time, Lulu's claims got worse. She told her friends that Ramon had actually gotten physical with her once or twice—that after a night of drinking, he grabbed her or pushed her. At one point, Lulu even claimed Ramon had forced himself on her without consent.
When Ramon heard this, he denied all of it. He said he never did anything like that and suggested Lulu might have been looking for a way out of their marriage by making it seem worse than it was. That became clear by March of 2015 when Lulu officially filed for divorce.
But after that, things only got uglier between them. Rather than walk away and leave their few good years behind them, Lulu started dragging Ramon's name through the mud. She contacted the people who ran some of the nonprofits he worked with, accusing him of embezzling money from their charities. She also began telling people at the gym—including other members—that Ramon was abusive toward her.
This was despite the fact that Ramon’s daughter, Mia, and his mother both said they had never once seen him get violent with anyone. But Lulu’s accusations were enough for many clients to cancel their memberships. Because of her badmouthing, the gym began spiraling financially.
To make matters worse, Ramon noticed that what little money remained in the gym's accounts seemed to be disappearing—and reappearing in Lulu’s personal bank account. She was skimming cash from the business they shared and using it to help pay for a new divorce attorney.
But apparently, that still wasn’t enough. Lulu wanted to walk away with it all—her green card, the cash, the house, the business. She wasn’t going to let anything stand in her way—least of all, Ramon.
So Lulu decides I deserve everything in this divorce. He's going to give me the business, he's going to give me the house, all the cars, everything. She's just... I mean, she's stealing at this point. She doesn't even really care. Well, she's open about it—probably a little too open—because in the summer of 2015, one of Ramon and Lulu's good friends, who was known only as Mundo, overheard Lulu having a conversation with her 16-year-old daughter in the gym's office. Now, Mundo caught a few big pieces of that conversation that really put a pit in his stomach.
Okay, Mundo hung around the gym; he would train there, and he hears Lulu talking about Ramon. She's talking to her daughter about a kid that came into the gym often and how this kid's father was part of some cartel or gang down in Mexico, that he had "cut up bodies" in the past. Then, towards the end of the conversation, Mundo caught something else—something about "taking care of the situation"—and then he heard Ramon's name.
Now, Mundo doesn't want to sound any alarms yet. He's thinking maybe he misunderstood, took it out of context. Oh, Mundo... But he's like, okay, just hearing Lulu talking about having someone kill Ramon—what would you do?
I guess we talked about this at the beginning. I don't know. Like, if I heard you talking about wanting to kill me... Well, it's not Ramon. I know, I'm just saying, if I did—yeah, like, if I heard you talking, I snuck up on you in the bathroom, and you were talking to someone about trying to kill me, I might kill you first.
Oh, okay, go to the police, please.
It's kill or be killed, right?
Yeah. I mean, I don't think so—not in this situation.
Yeah, I mean, kind of in this situation.
So, Mundo goes home that night, processes it all, then wakes up with the intention of confronting Lulu about it at the gym the next day. So Mundo goes in, knocks on her office door, she welcomes him in, and let's just say she's not shy about her feelings. She tells Mundo, "I'm tired. I'm frustrated. I wish Ramon would just leave, or the cops would pick him up, or he would just disappear."
Now, Mundo's like, okay Lulu, what do you mean by disappear? Do you mean like—(he makes the pistol sign with his two fingers), and Lulu nods her head at Mundo that she's crazy. She's crazy. Mundo takes a minute to think about it. He goes out, hits a bag for a few minutes, then goes back to Lulu and says, "You know what, I think I might know somebody."
But before you jump to conclusions, let me give you a little backstory on Mundo. This guy's had a pretty rough past. He joined a gang at the age of 12 and had been shot six different times in his life. He also landed in jail three different times before one violent felony charge put him away for 14 months. When he was released, his soon-to-be wife told him, "Clean yourself up, or you'll never see me again." And Mundo did. He turned his life around. He moved to a safer part of Houston, away from the gangs he was associated with. He started looking for new ways to spend his time, which is how he even stumbled upon Ramon's gym back in 2005, so 10 years earlier.
Mundo was exactly the kind of guy Ramon loved to help. He started training Mundo because he told Ramon he didn't want to learn how to fight, he wanted to learn how to box. And that was all Ramon needed to hear to take him under his wing.
After that, the two became best friends and had been practically inseparable ever since. Mundo said Ramon was the first person in his life to act like a real father figure to him, and even when Lulu came into Ramon's life, Ramon and Mundo stayed close.
So you're probably wondering: Why did his best friend of sorts just say, "Hey, I have an idea," or was he willing to help Lulu find a hitman? The answer is, he thought this was the only way he could save his best friend's life.
Mundo said he could tell in that moment that Lulu was dead serious about getting Ramon killed, and if Mundo didn't pretend like he was going to help, she would find someone else, probably fast, since their divorce was getting closer to being finalized. She probably wanted him dead before that. So, he told Lulu that day he knew someone named Paco who would happily do the job.
But when Mundo left the gym, he didn't call Paco and say, "Hey, I need you to do this hit." He called Ramon and said, "Look, this is exactly what is going on."
Could you imagine? Would you believe your friend if they called you and said, "Hey, Garrett's trying to kill you"?
I think it would depend on who the friend was. Any friend— is there any friend you'd believe?
But if we were like going through a divorce, blah blah blah—yeah, I’d probably guess that’s true, right? Because I guess we’re going through a divorce and things are kind of nasty right now. Like, right now, she's made her intentions clear; she wants the business, yeah, she wants it all. She's told him that upfront.
Yeah, that's true.
So at first, Ramon is in total disbelief. Like, yeah, things are ugly between him and Lulu, but she wouldn't actually pay someone to kill him, right?
Yeah, but the more Ramon thinks about it, the more it starts to make sense. If Lulu killed Ramon before the divorce was finalized, she would get a heck of a lot more. She would get Ramon's entire retirement fund, the house, the business, his life insurance policy. There would be no tit for tat—Lulu would walk away as the beneficiary to it all.
As if that wasn't bad enough, Ramon had a good reason to be afraid. He was still living under the same roof as Lulu. Sure, they were sleeping in separate bedrooms, but now Ramon would have to walk past Lulu in the kitchen tomorrow morning and pretend like he didn't know that she was trying to hire someone to kill him.
It's a lie, which is why Ramon decides to waste no time. He goes to the police immediately, and you know what they say?
"Ah, too bad, good luck, buddy. Yep, your wife's trying to kill you. There's nothing we can do about that right now. You're not the first person going through a divorce whose wife wants him dead. You have zero proof, so until you show us some more concrete evidence that she's put a hit on you, we can't move forward with this."
That sucks.
So, what does Ramon do? It sucks. He forms a plan with Mundo to get that concrete evidence for the police. First, they buy a burner phone—one they pretend belongs to the hitman. Mundo's setting Lulu up with Paco. Ramon takes the burner phone, and Mundo walks into the gym, pulls Lulu aside and says, "All right, want me to set this up for you? I will text him right now."
So Lulu watches over Mundo's shoulder as he texts Paco (AKA Ramon, who's on the burner phone), and Paco agrees, saying he'll need $1,000 in cash and Ramon's truck. Lulu falls for it; she agrees to the deal and a few days later even gives a payment to Mundo to hand off to Paco for the weapon. But Mundo also needs evidence that Lulu's directly connected, which is why he starts secretly recording their conversations about this hit.
What more evidence do you need? This is great. In one of them, she's actually going through Ramon's watch collection, talking about which one she'd pawn off to pay for the kill. In another recorded conversation, Mundo asks Lulu, clears day: "They just want to know you are serious that you want Ramon killed?" And her reply is, "Yes, yes, yes, definitely. They should do it. I do not give a damn. I am going to pay."
All right, if the police don't take this seriously, I'm going to be— I mean, obviously, they don't. That's... I don't know what to say. Very upsetting.
So time passes, and the more time passes, the more Ramon and Mundo start to worry about Lulu. This woman is a wild card—she's completely unpredictable. What happens if she starts getting antsy, realizes that this hitman is never actually going to come through? They can't drag this out for weeks. What if she goes off and finds someone else to do the job? For Ramon, it's literally a race against the clock, and he's getting scared. He buys himself a gun, starts carrying it everywhere. He's sitting at traffic lights, paranoid someone's going to pull up next to him and just shoot him.
Bro, did they not go to the police yet? They need to get the police involved!
So 10 days after collecting all of this evidence, they decide to move. On July 15th, 2015, Ramon goes back to the police—specifically, the Montgomery County Constable's office. Between those recordings and the down payment Lulu had given to Mundo to help get the gun, the police are like, "Okay, yeah, we believe you. She's trying to kill you."
Goodness, dude, you have a lot of evidence. In those recordings, Lulu talks about getting Ramon's life insurance policy, getting his pension payments for the rest of her life, his retirement money—how she'll never have to work again. This is insane. And that she needed Ramon to be dead before July 22nd because that's when their divorce would be finalized. And if that day came and went with Ramon still alive, well, she wouldn't get a dime. His kids would walk away with most of it.
I would go on a vacation. I would go on a cruise that nobody knows about for like 3 weeks.
So Mundo also tells her several times in these recordings that if at any point she wants to call it off, she can just say the word. And she's like, "No, I'm good. Let's do it. I already made up my mind."
Gosh.
So police are more than ready to move forward now, but they have less than 7 days to get this done. Like Ramon, they are worried about the possibility of Lulu hiring someone else to do the job, especially if she feels like Paco is moving too slow.
Ultimately, they also decide to keep up the ruse that Ramon and Mundo were playing. The police figured if they changed course now, Lulu might suspect something's up. They want more evidence, but they don't want to change course or arrest her just yet. So they kept Mundo as part of their sting operation, and they set a date for Paco (who would be played by one of the precinct's undercover agents) and Lulu to finally meet in person.
This is on July 20th, that evening. Lulu stopped at an ATM and withdrew $500 in cash before meeting Mundo and Paco in a parking lot just a few blocks away from the gym. She also brought several of Ramon's watches with her as additional payment. Mundo, who's wearing a hidden camera, catches the discussion between her and Paco when he asks her, "Okay, so what do you want? You want this guy beaten up or left alone?" She's like, "No, no beating. I just want him dead." He says, "Okay, any final messages you want me to tell him?" She says, "No, I don't want to talk to him. I just want him dead." She's on a mission. She's cold. She's heartless. It's wild. This is wild.
And when the whole thing is done, Lulu actually pulls Mundo in for a hug, like she's grateful for his help in finding this hitman. And they don't just arrest her on the spot right there. No. So, at this point, they have more than enough to arrest Lulu, maybe even put her behind bars, but there are still those claims she made of domestic violence—something they think could sway a jury. So they figure there's one more thing they could do to really show Lulu's true colors. They wanted to convince Lulu that Ramon was dead. And to do it, they pulled out all the stops.
Now, in all of our years doing this show, I can safely say this is the first time I've heard of something like this happening in a case.
Did you lie to me?
I did.
You lied to me?
Well, he is in a grave.
Oh, I'm pretty happy you lied to me, because I thought for sure he was dead. That makes me pretty happy.
So, the following day, July 21st, detectives sat in front of a computer watching YouTube makeup tutorials because they were going to learn how to fake a gunshot wound to the head. They went to the grocery store, bought food coloring, corn syrup—just like they use in the movies. Then they dug a shallow grave in a rural area of North Houston. This is like real, crazy official police business. Okay, there's like a whole team here doing this.
At around 5:00 p.m. that day, Ramon Sosa climbed into that hole, wearing nothing but his underwear. And I do want to say, I have heard Ramon himself talk about this experience, and he finds this entire thing extremely traumatic.
Oh, I'm sure.
Because it's not just like fun and games. It's not like he's going through this entire thing—bloody makeup all over him, pretending to be dead, climbing in a hole. He's doing this because his wife wants to kill him. Wants to kill him. Actually wants to kill him. So, it's not fun and games. Like, he's sitting in this hole, going, "What has my life come to?" This is so distressing. He's in only his underwear. He's very vulnerable. He has a fake bloody gunshot wound to the head. Closes his eyes. He plays dead. And detectives snapped photos on their cell phones of him lying there.
Now, to the officers who were helping Ramon fake his own death, this might have felt like just a weird day at work. Like I said, Ramon lying in that hole, it was emotional. He's thinking about his kids. Are they ever going to see this photo? To him, this isn't a story he's going to go home and tell his wife. After this, this is the culmination of his life. It's just bizarre. But it gets the job done, because the following day, that undercover officer playing Paco meets up with Lulu, and again their encounter is caught on camera.
He shows her the photos. She stares at them quietly for a few seconds. She doesn't cringe. She doesn't look away. She doesn't say, "No, no, no, I don't want to see." She just deadpans; she just stares. And when Paco tells her, "Yeah, Ramon fought back," she laughs. She's looking at a picture of who she believes is her dead husband. What the freak. The hitman says, "Yeah, he fought back," and she laughs. Okay, she shows zero remorse. So, police are like, "Yeah, this is going to jam a jury. Not." Yeah, they believe that Ramon had ever done anything.
So, police secure an arrest warrant for Lulu on July 23rd. Police show up to the gym, pretending to look for Ramon, who they say they've gotten missing persons reports about. So, they're still playing this. They pull Lulu aside, ask if she's seen him. Has he been at work? Have you spoken to him? She says, "No, we haven't spoken since we started going through our divorce." When they ask when she last saw Ramon, she says July 15th, despite the fact that they were living under the same roof together. And at the same time, Lulu is acting concerned. She's asking police questions. They give Lulu a few minutes to finish her hardly Oscar-worthy performance, and then they say, "Lulu, you're under arrest for capital murder charges."
Okay, yep. I don't know what her reaction was to finding out that Ramon was still alive, but I'm sure the look on her face was absolutely priceless. That's amazing. I wish I could see. And while Ramon was probably chomping at the bit for Lulu to hear this entire story, that wasn't the case when it came to Ramon's kids. He now had to explain to them, "Hey, so there's this picture of me, and I had to do it because the woman that honestly put a wedge between us tried to kill me."
He also had the hurdle of rebuilding his reputation. While I don't know what went on behind closed doors between Ramon and Lulu, I have to say he was never convicted of anything having to do with domestic assault. And after her arrest, Lulu agreed to the divorce settlement as it stood, giving Ramon full ownership of both the house and the gym. Then, after spending 15 months behind bars awaiting her trial, Lulu pleaded guilty in October 2016 to reduced charges of second-degree solicitation of murder.
Ramon was at her sentencing hearing. He says he'll never forget the first thing he noticed when she walked in: the sound of her chains clinking as the courtroom fell silent. But Ramon also said he felt sorry for Lulu. As he put it, "This lady ended up in this country because she wanted a better life. She was living well. I bought her expensive shoes. She had fine clothes, and now she's in a jumpsuit and chains. It didn't have to be this way." In fact, Ramon said he forgave her in that moment. It was as if all his anger and frustration washed away as he saw her stand before the judge and receive her sentence: 20 years behind bars.
But Lulu...wow. She never once looked in Ramon's direction that day, and not a single member of her family stood up before the judge to advocate on her behalf after that day in court.
Ramon did his best to move forward in life. He said the experience brought him and his daughter, Mia, much closer. She actually packed up her life in California and returned to Texas to be closer to her father. She said seeing those photos of him lying in that grave, pretending to be dead, made her realize how little time they actually had together, and she wanted him to be more present in her life.
In 2018, Ramon found love again. He got engaged to a Houston-based doctor. He wrote a book about his experience, even started traveling, giving lectures, and supporting charities that address male domestic violence. He credits all of this to his good friend Mundo. Good old Mundo, man.
But while Ramon's story may have a happy ending, that doesn't mean he's living without fear. Because in October 2023, Lulu was released from prison after serving only 7 years of her 20-year sentence. Ramon says that while she was released on good behavior, he says, "Maybe Lulu's the same person. Maybe she'll come for me, looking for revenge." And because of that, Ramon will always be looking over his shoulder, wondering if the woman he once loved will come to finish the job once and for all.
That's scary. Actually, 100%.
And that is the story of Ramon Sosa, who had to fake his own death for police to believe him that his wife was trying to kill him.
Dude, that is pretty scary that she's out.
Yeah, I mean, I'd move. Like, I'd move countries. Bro, she laughed. I'd move countries, for sure. She laughed.
He shouldn't have to.
No, he shouldn't have to, but I would.
She should, bye Lulu.
She should send her somewhere. Just send her to the middle of an island somewhere. Let her live there.
To live where she wants to live.
She laughed when he said he fought back.
That's so sad. She's heartless and cold. What a case.
Well, you lied to me, but I'm glad everyone's alive.
Well, what did you want me to tell you?
No, no, no, no. Everything turns out okay.
Yeah, you lied to me.
He did end up in a grave with a gunshot to the head.
I still love you.
I love you too.
Alright, you guys, that is our episode, and we will see you next time with another one.
I love it.
And I hate it.
Goodbye.