A Missouri woman has been sentenced to prison for a murder-for-hire plot that killed her fiancé and the shooters responsible are still at large according to authorities.
The United States Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Missouri just shared details of a wild murder-for-hire plot that has just been prosecuted. They said in a press release that Victoria Rena Williams, 67, of St. Louis County pleaded guilty in September to one count each of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, aiding and abetting murder-for-hire and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Michael Grady, 70, was convicted on those same 3 counts.
In a case investigated by the FBI and the St. Louis County Police Department, Williams was sentenced to 225 months in prison for hiring shooters to kill her fiancé, Charles Harris III. The press release said she arranged a meeting between her fiancé and what he believed to be two customers. He was fatally shot in his home in October of 2011. She had collected insurance money that she had confirmed would be paid in the event Harris was killed in a robbery. She would eventually receive insurance payments of $224,444, $110,000 and $175,762 from multiple policies…