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CONROE, Texas. Dorothy Canfield, a 84-year-old woman who is currently in jail on a theft charge allegedly tried to hire a hit man to kill the Houston area prosecutor handling her case and to maim his boss, one of the apparent targets said Monday.
Both targets were not injured in the alleged plot, which investigators said surfaced in early April.
Canfield faces charges of solicitation of capital murder and solicitation to commit aggravated assault on a public servant, Ligon said.
Canfield allegedly spoke to other jail inmates of her plans to find someone to murder Freyer and attack Ligon.
According to investigators, an undercover law enforcement agent went to visit Canfield in jail posed as a hit man. She didn’t want the attacks to come back to her. So, Canfield allegedly suggested that the alleged hits on the Montgomery County prosecutors appear to be linked to the Kaufman County slayings. The unsolved murder case of two other Texas prosecutors, Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his assistant district attorney, Mark Hasse, according to Ligon. McLelland and his wife were both found dead in their house on March 28. Two months after Hasse was fatally shot outside the local courthouse.
Investigators were expected to release more information later.
Both targets were not injured in the alleged plot, which investigators said surfaced in early April.
Canfield faces charges of solicitation of capital murder and solicitation to commit aggravated assault on a public servant, Ligon said.
Canfield allegedly spoke to other jail inmates of her plans to find someone to murder Freyer and attack Ligon.
According to investigators, an undercover law enforcement agent went to visit Canfield in jail posed as a hit man. She didn’t want the attacks to come back to her. So, Canfield allegedly suggested that the alleged hits on the Montgomery County prosecutors appear to be linked to the Kaufman County slayings. The unsolved murder case of two other Texas prosecutors, Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his assistant district attorney, Mark Hasse, according to Ligon. McLelland and his wife were both found dead in their house on March 28. Two months after Hasse was fatally shot outside the local courthouse.
Investigators were expected to release more information later.
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