Plans to Hire a Hitman

Plans to Hire a Hitman

the shocking confession

Dr. Michael Saltzburg Planned to Hire a "South Philly Boy" to "Get Rid of" Our Biological Father   

He Told Me This Disturbing Fact Himself

I don't know what possessed him to tell me, but the last time I saw my adoptive father Dr. Michael Saltzburg, he casually mentioned he had planned to kill my biological father. I had been clinging to a last shred of hope that he would give up his bizarre animosity towards my older brother Christopher, who along with me, was Michael's other adopted child. We were born in our mother's first marriage.


Dr. Michael Saltzburg told me, after bizarrely, suddenly disowning and disinheriting my brother Chris, "Chris is a nut job. Look at who his father is. I was going to hire one of my South Philly boys to get rid of him. But your mother said no."  It didn't go unnoticed that I also shared the same biological father as Chris and that Michael was directly insulting our genetics, as if there was something inherently wrong with us.


Of course it's not illegal to consider hiring a hitman to murder someone. But it shows just how grotesque his character always has been.  Whether Michael verbally threatened our biological father at that time, I do not know, but it's extremely suspicious that our biological father suddenly, without notice or explanation, disappeared from our lives and was never heard from again. This happened right around the time Michael and my biological father had a verbal fight when Michael picked us up from our visit.


From the time I was born until I was seven, my biological father and his wife had picked my brother and I up for visits exactly according to the visitation schedule - every other weekend, every other Christmas, and two weeks in the summer. He wasn't an outwardly warm man, but he spent the whole weekends with us. We usually spent the weekend on the Chesapeake Bay, sleeping on his cabin cruiser.


It was a lot of work for him and his wife to get everything together for us to spend the weekend on his boat. There were blocks of ice, plenty of food, fishing bait and gear, etc. His wife also used to sew me these handmade jumpsuits, which must have been very difficult. We learned how to fish and waterski. My brother became an expert boatman by the time he was eleven.


We also regularly visited with our grandparents, uncle and cousins on our biological father's side, going boating together and celebrating Christmas and other holidays together.

It didn't go unnoticed that I also shared the same biological father as Chris and that Michael was directly insulting our genetics, as if there was something inherently wrong with us.

Our Biological Father Suddenly Disappeared From Our Lives

Usually our stepmother did all the pick-ups and drop-offs. One weekend though, our stepfather came to get us. As we were driving away, he and my father started arguing. My biological father, who was normally very calm, was so angry he threw a beer bottle at the car as we drove away.


Our biological dad had remarried and had a young toddler by that point. Did Michael threaten him in some way? Had Michael threatened him? I'll probably never know. 


But soon after that, our father and stepmother told us we wouldn't be visiting them anymore. And that was it. We literally never saw them again.


As a child, I was unbelievably hurt and confused. We had no idea what was happening or why. However, if Michael had threatened him it would all make sense why our biological father just disappeared from our lives out of nowhere. Our biological father had been incredibly consistent and involved, never missing a single visit, and then suddenly he was gone.

Our biological father had been incredibly consistent and involved, never missing a single visit – and then suddenly he was gone forever.

Michael Frequently Touted His Genetic Superiority

As we grew up, our stepfather Michael constantly bragged about the genetics of his biological children. It always felt weird, for obvious reasons.  Ironically, our biological father is a successful entrepreneur and engineer who founded a successful boating towers company, Atlantic Towers.


Chris and I were Michael's adopted children by marriage, and shared no genetic connection. He'd been in our family since I was one and Chris was just five years old.  Our mother had married our biological father (pictured on the right) young, and it wasn't a happy marriage.


Our younger brother Mark used to taunt our older brother Chris, starting when Mark was just 11, "I am the only son of the king". It's so weird and embarrassing. It became painfully clear that Michael had been putting this into our brother Mark's head for years.  Literally hours after we buried my mom's body, our brother Mark said to his son in front of my children, "You're the only real Saltzburg grandchild." These were deeply held grudges against Chris and my biology.

We never expected equal treatment from Michael. But we had no idea that he planned to casually disown us and write us out of our mother's multi-million dollar estate as soon as she died.

Michael Tricked Our Mom Into Believing He'd Treat Both His Biological and Adopted Children Fairly

Our adoptive father Dr. Michael Saltzburg's outward acceptance of Chris and I was just a ruse to pacify our mother, who would have left him in a moment if she realized the degree of his favoritism. She told me many times that she only married him because she trusted him to treat us as his own children.


He never had shown much regard for us, and certainly never treated us equally. Michael just sort of ignored us. But he always seemed to especially despise my older brother Chris, for no apparent reason. As we grew up, everyone was so busy we never noticed the neglect. He wasn't around much and had never really interacted with us. It wasn't until our younger siblings were born that his favoritism became glaringly obvious.


Yet as my older brother Chris said, "Blood is thicker than water" and we never expected equal treatment from Michael. But we had no idea that he planned to casually disown us and write us out of our mother's multi-million dollar estate. Nor did we ever guess that he'd casually take away our children's 529 college funds that had been set up for each of them at birth, in each child's name.


Our mother not only would have divorced him but likely would have become violently enraged if she'd had a clue as to what he planned to do to me, Chris and our four children.  She was a smart and savvy financial planner and would have legally protected her estate, rather than writing a joint trust that she trusted Michael to carry out after her death. Michael knew that, and as a master manipulator, he kept a perfect poker face with her. 

Our mother was a smart and savvy financial planner and would have legally protected her estate, rather than establishing a joint trust that she trusted Michael to carry out after her death. Michael knew that, and as a master manipulator, he kept a perfect poker face with her.

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Read more about our tragic saga...My mother was a strong advocate for women and children. She would want the lies exposed so others can learn from her mistakes. It also is my hope that people can know the truth about Dr. Michael Saltzburg and Dr. Lauren Saltzburg so that, at least on some level, they are held accountable for their actions. Dark ethics deserve the light of truth.

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