Massachusetts woman gets probation in murder-for-hire plot
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman who participated in a murder-for-hire plot to kill a woman who had accused her husband of rape has been sentenced to five years of probation. The Daily Hampshire Gazette reports that 50-year-old Cynthia Coons, of Holyoke, was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to first-degree conspiracy. The plot was never carried out. Prosecutors say Coons' husband was in jail on the rape charge when he talked to another inmate about having the victim killed. Читать дальше...