Claire Reid
A Georgia mother-of-three is accused of sending a chilling text message ordering an alleged hitman to ‘kill’ her husband, according to court documents.
Thirty-six-year-old Lindsay Shiver from Thomasville, Georgia, is accused of conspiring to kill her husband Robert Shiver, several months after the couple filed for divorce, Bahamian authorities have said.
Prosecutors allege the accused conspired to kill her husband together with two Bahamas natives - Terrance Bethel, 28, and Faron Newbold, 28 - on July 16 while on the Abaco Islands.
In a WhatsApp message, seen in court documents obtained by ABC News, Shiver told her alleged lover Bethel and Newbold - the man she allegedly hired as a hitman - to ‘kill him’ as well as sharing photographs of her estranged husband.
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Commenting on the release of the documents, ABC News Contributor Brad Garrett said: "It's been my experience, that people who plot to kill their spouses almost ultimately always get caught, because they don't know what they're doing.”
Bahamian police say Shiver admitted to sending the message and the photos after she was interrogated by officers.
The alleged plot came to light after Bethel became a suspect in an unrelated burglary, which led to his phone being obtained in a search warrant.
Prosecutors say after looking through the phone they recovered the messages sent between Shiver, Bethel and the alleged would-be hitman, Newbold.
After police found the message, they informed Mr Shiver and the three suspects were arrested.
Shiver, Bethel, and Newbold were all transported from Great Guana Cay to Nassau, where Shiver remains at the notorious Fox Hill prison.
Bethel and Newbold have since posted bail and have been released, according to the Daily Mail - but Shiver is being held on a $100,000 bond and will remain behind bars until a hearing set to take place later this week.
The suspects are due back in court on October 5.
Mr Shiver is reportedly in the US with the couple’s three children.
The relationship between the Shivers broke down earlier this year, with Mr Shiver filing for divorce after alleging his wife was having an affair.
Attorneys for the mom-of-three denied the affair, stating in court documents: “Any extramarital relationship defendant has had was during the parties’ separation and legally condoned by husband.”
Her lawyers went on to claim that she felt ‘unsafe in the marital home and has installed locks on the interior doors of the home for protection’.