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Boxing trainer Ramon Sosa was marked for death by his wife. This is the story of how he survived, thanks to a surprising savior.

The police camera clicked. Click. Click. Click. Each snap shattered a silence brought on by Houston's suffocating summertime heat. The lens pointed into a waist-deep hole.

At the bottom of the freshly dug grave lay a man in his late 40s with what appeared to be blood running from a gunshot wound to his right temple. More blood trailed from his nose. The man, clad in nothing but his underwear, had his arms pulled beneath his back as though he'd been bound.

Detectives from the Montgomery County Constable's Office already knew his identity: Ramon Sosa, one of the best-known boxing trainers in southeast Texas.