CLEVELAND (AP) - An Ohio newlywed accused of soliciting her firefighter husband’s killing to collect $100,000 in insurance money has been convicted of aggravated murder in a scheme that was flawed from the start: His ex-wife was still the beneficiary of his policy.
A jury in Cleveland on Friday found 45-year-old Uloma Curry-Walker guilty in the November 2013 slaying of William Walker.
Prosecutors said Curry-Walker was nearing financial ruin and asked her teenage daughter and the daughter’s boyfriend to find someone to kill her husband for the insurance money. Prosecutors said the boyfriend contacted a cousin, who found someone to kill Walker.
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One of Curry-Walker’s attorneys suggested to jurors that the woman’s daughter cooked up the plan.
Curry-Walker could be sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole.
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Information from: cleveland.com, https://www.cleveland.com
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