“I know today is not the end of it,” Stephanie Russell's husband told the judge. “As we have seen, she is not going to stop.”
The day after a former Norton Commons doctor pleaded guilty in April to trying to hire a hitman to kill her ex-husband, she solicited other inmates "in a renewed effort to find someone to murder" him, according to prosecutors.
Stephanie Russell’s trial on charges of murder-for-hire and stalking was set to begin in U.S. District Court on Monday but she instead accepted a plea agreement to the charges that calls for between 97 months and 144 months in prison.
When asked by Stephanie Russell what kind of spell would be used, the healer replied, “it’s a death spell my dear not a love spell,” according to the records filed in U.S. District Court last month. "I can’t tell you inside details, but I will do your job.”
The trial for a Norton Commons doctor accused of hiring a hitman to kill her ex-husband is scheduled to start Thursday.
A local doctor was indicted for trying to hire someone to murder her ex-husband.
Court records show pediatrician Stephanie Russell had tried for more than two years to have her ex-husband killed.
She could face 10 years in federal prison if convicted.