AUSTIN, Texas — A U.S. appeals court has reversed a new trial order for three people involved in a murder-for-hire plot that ended in the death of a man and woman roughly six years ago in Nashville.
Erik Charles Maund, Adam Carey and Bryon Brockway were all convicted of various offenses in connection with the murders of Holly Williams and her boyfriend, William Lanway, who were found dead in a vehicle in Tennessee back in 2020. Maund, an Austin businessman, was allegedly involved in an affair with Williams prior to the murders.
Documents from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals state that Lanway blackmailed Maund after the affair by “demanding money in exchange” for keeping the information from Maund’s family. In response, Maund hired a man named Gilad Peled to handle the blackmail issue. Peled hired Brockway, Carey and two others to watch Williams. Then, in spring 2020, Maund paid Peled to kill Williams and Lanway, and their deaths were carried out by Brockway and Carey…