Top 11 dumbest things done by athletes off the pitch

#1 Rae Carruth hires a hitman to assassinate his wife

Rae Carruth hired a hitman to kill his girlfriend

Rae Carruth, a former professional American footballer who played for NFL club Carolina Panthers from 1997 to 1999, was sentenced to prison in 1999. His crime? Conspiring to kill his pregnant girlfriend, Cherica Adams.

The former NFL player hired a hitman, Van Brett Watkins, to assassinate Adams because she did not abort their unborn child. She was eight months pregnant with Carruth’s child when Watkins shot her multiple times. Soon after Adams’ admission to the hospital, she fell into a coma.

Doctors were able to save her son, but Adams died a month later, and Carruth became a fugitive. He was eventually captured after being found hiding in the boot of a car.