Three Alabama sisters were arrested last week in a murder-for hire plot to kill the husband of one of their daughters. Mitzy Gaye Smith, 54, Judy Owen, 61, and Sandra Grimes, 57, face federal charges in the plot, which saw them hiring a convicted felon to kill Grimes’ son-in-law, who she accused of abusing her …
A federal judge sentenced a North Texas woman to nine years in prison for using Bitcoin to pay a hitman to kill her boyfriend’s lover. Investigators say Michelle Murphy, 58, used an ATM to convert cash to Bitcoin and transferred about $10,500 to a hitman’s cryptocurrency wallet, KDFW reported. The plan was for the hitman …
A convicted rapist and his girlfriend have now been charged in a murder-for-hire plot to kill a judge, a prosecutor, and the victim in the case that sent Alexander Kise to jail. Kise, 21, and Alydia Gater, 22, have each been charged with attempted murder, conspiracy, and criminal sale of a controlled substance, New York …
A man arrested for the fatal shooting of a Washington state woman over the weekend may have been hired by the woman’s husband to kill her and stage the murder to look like a robbery gone wrong. James Rummell, 49, has also been taken into custody as police investigate the death of his wife, 60-year-old …
Police in California last week arrested a pastor and a man he allegedly hired to kill his daughter’s boyfriend last fall. Samuel Pasillas, the 47-year-old pastor of a Spanish-language church in Victorville, has been charged with solicitation for murder, conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, and assault with a deadly weapon, Riverside police said. Juan …
A Kentucky pediatrician accused in a murder-for hire plot against her ex-husband reportedly tried to hire “occult” practitioners to kill him with a “death spell.” Stephanie M. Russell, 53, is charged with one count of using interstate commerce facilities in the plot when she agreed to pay an undercover FBI agent $7,000 to kill Rick …
An one-time county beauty queen accused of plotting to kill her ex-football player husband in the Bahamas has been granted permission to to stay with her south Alabama family until her trial starts early next year. Lindsay Shiver, 36, has been out of jail on a $100,000 bond since August but has not been allowed …
A Connecticut man has been arrested after he allegedly asked an Uber driver to find him a “hitman” to kill a woman who was going to testify against him in court. The Uber driver, however, went to police, and an undercover sergeant posed as the potential hitman, CTInsider reported. The sergeant spoke with Leonard Thuo …
A Georgia woman who was arrested in the Bahamas in July for plotting her husband’s murder allegedly had an affair with an 18-year-old last year. The Daily Mail reported that Lindsay Shiver had an affair with the teen at a vacation home in Abaco. Robert Shiver, 38, allegedly learned of his wife’s infidelity from her …
Prosectutors also released details of the investigation that led them to the ex-boyfriend, the gunman, and the getaway car driver.
An Oklahoma woman has been charged with hiring someone to killer her estranged husband, but she and her supporters say the man set her up. John Velas told police days before he was found shot to death in a Lawton city park that was told about the plot by a man who said Susen Hunter …
On Thursday, Florida officials announced that the ex-wife of slain Microsoft executive Jared Bridegan has been charged with his murder. Jared Bridegan, 33, was fatally shot after he dropped off his twin 9-year-olds at Shanna Gardner-Fernandez’s Jacksonville Beach home on February 16, 2022. The Florida Times-Union reported that Gardner-Fernandez was arrested in Washington on charges …
