While it can't and shouldn't be related directly to Rielle Hunter or her surviving family members, it does appear as though there was some criminality in the family's recent past. Via Web of Deception:
In the rich, clubby world of horsemen, some greedy owners have hired killers to murder their animals for the insurance payoffs. Burns's preferred method of killing horses was electrocution. It had been so ever since the day in 1982 when, he says, the late James Druck, an Ocala, Fla., attorney who represented insurance life Druck had taken out a $150,000 life-insurance policy.
Web of deception links to this Sports Illustrated piece from 1992:
In fact, says Burns, Druck personally taught him how to rig the wires to electrocute Henry the Hawk: how to slice an extension cord down the middle into two strands of wire; how to attach a pair of alligator clips to the bare end of each wire; and how to attach the clips to the horse—one to its ear, the other to its rectum. All he had to do then, says Burns, was plug the cord into a standard wall socket. And step back.
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