Jury deliberating in Morgan County murder-for-hire trial

DECATUR, Ala. (WHNT) – The jury is now deliberating in the trial of a North Alabama mom accused of orchestrating a murder-for-hire plot in the 2020 killing of a Hartselle man.

Jaclyn Skuce is charged with three counts of capital murder. Prosecutors argue that Skuce paid a man to kill Larry Sheppard at his home the same morning he was scheduled in court for a custody hearing.

For days, investigators, witnesses and alleged accomplices have testified and the jury has now heard all the evidence available in this case…

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