Lyle Lanley

Lyle Lanley was a shyster who sold the town of Springfield and three other towns a useless monorail in the episode Marge vs. the Monorail.

Biography
Lanley was a slick con-artist who relies on songs a other eye-cathing things to trick unsuspecting towns into buying something useless and unsafe. After planning the crime, he started an academy for Monorail conductors. He picked Homer for the job despite he getting every answer wrong in the test. In the end, Lanley was on nonstop flight to Tahiti. The plane seemingly made a stop in North Haverbrook in which Laney previously sold a Monrail to.

Death
The citizens heard he was on a flight to Tahiti and planned to kill him. All that was heard was Lanley screaming and the plane rocking. This implied that Lanley was murdered.