MARYLAND (WBFF) — In January 2024, deep in a roadside field in Western Maryland, Brice Boots, the estranged husband of a former Baltimore Police officer, was found dead. A month later, she was dead too, having overdosed on fentanyl in what was later ruled a suicide.
By that point, their short, troubled marriage had been bleeding into the court system for well over a year. But prosecutors hope to prove that what finally ended their union was a family conspiracy to kill the man, a plan aided by Boots’ now-dead wife, Frances Hamilton.
Keon Wilson-Hawkins, one of the officers’ two nephews in custody, is set to begin his first-degree murder trial Monday in Frederick County Circuit Court. The 21-year-old is accused of helping Hamilton abduct and drag Boots from his Pikesville home to his death out west…