Around the Patch: Murder for Hire, Champion Rower Dies and More

Thanks for clicking on Around the Patch, a look at news from Patch communities near Solon. 

Here's what we've got today:

1. A Willowick man says he was offered $50,000 from life insurance money to kill the ex-husband of a Beachwood woman. Now that woman and her father both face charges of conspiracy to commit murder, .

2. Ryan Patrick Torgerson, a former  football player and Ironman award recipient who won three world championship medals as a member of the U.S. National Rowing Team, died suddenly at age 38, according to Cleveland Heights Patch.

3. Friends of slain bartender Annie McSween react to news that Joseph Thomas, 26, of Madison Township, was arrested and charged with McSween's murder. Mentor Patch caught up with them at the Breakwall Tavern, where McSween tended bar.