Did Letterman&#39;s Blackmailer Get the Idea From One of His CBS
News Stories?S  One of the last 48 Hours stories that CBS
Newsman and accused David Letterman blackmailer Joe Halderman
worked on—airing just one month before he allegedly launched his
plot to extort the late-night host—involved a ransom scheme.
Weird, huh?  On August 1, 48 Hours aired a true-crime story,
produced by Halderman with Sara Rodriguez, about Sonia Rios—the
"Black Widow of Lomita." Rios, a Filipino immigrant who lived in
Lomita, Calif., allegedly had two of her ex-husbands murdered
during visits to her home country, once in 1987 and again in
2006. Rios herself turned up dead of a bullet wound to the head
in 2007.  The story originally aired in February, but the August
re-broadcast was updated with new reporting based on
developments in the case. It's a run-of-the-mill true-crime tale
of murder and deception, but it features one detail that seems
strange in retrospect: The sister of one of the victims, who
never got her brother's remai