Mom, daughter allegedly hired hit man
DALLAS, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- A Dallas-area mother and daughter have been charged with conspiring to kill their husband and father to collect on his life insurance.
Shirley Bilbrey Hughes, 56, and Tammie Lafawne Lewis, 31, were arrested Monday, The Dallas Morning News reported. They were being held in lieu of $100,000 bail on charges of solicitation to commit capital murder.
Kenneth Hughes, 57, only learned of the alleged plot when Dallas police called him at work and asked him to come in for questioning.
Detectives say that Shirley Hughes admitted the plan. Her husband, who called his wife "the best-natured woman you'd ever see," was not allowed to talk to her after her arrest but told the newspaper what he wanted to ask.
"I guess I'd ask her if it was true and ask her why," he said. "I don't understand."
The couple lived in Garland just outside Dallas. Lewis returned to her parents home with her 10-year-old son after a recent divorce.
Investigators say that Lewis approached an unidentified witness, asked him to kill her father for a $25,000 payment and gave him a gun as security and as the weapon to be used.
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