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February 24, 2009
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Mother and daughter arrested for plotting murder http://www.privateofficer.com
Dallas TX Feb 24 2009
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Kenneth Hughes was at work early Monday when detectives asked him to come to Dallas police headquarters and answer some questions: Did he and his wife and daughter have trouble getting along? Were there problems within the family?
Hughes, 57, says that he told them no. Afterward he learned what the questions were about. Officers were arresting his wife of 33 years and their daughter, who they said had tried to hire someone to kill him.
“It just floored me,” Hughes said. “I couldn’t believe it.”
Tammie Lafawne Lewis, 31, and her mother, Shirley Bilbrey Hughes, 56, were booked into the Dallas County Jail about 10 a.m. Each is being held in lieu of $100,000 bail and faces charges of solicitation to commit capital murder. Police say they planned to collect on Kenneth Hughes’ life insurance policy.
When detectives told him his wife had confessed, Hughes requested to speak with her but was told he couldn’t. Later he explained what he might have said to her.
“I guess I’d ask her if it was true and ask her why,” he said. “I don’t understand.”
Hughes and his wife lived in a three-bedroom brick house in Garland. Lewis, the elder of their two daughters, moved in last year with her 10-year-old son after a divorce.
Hughes said he got along well with his wife, who looks after infants at a child-care center.
“She’s the best-natured woman you’d ever see,” he said. “She gets along with everybody. We very seldom ever argue.”
Hughes said he and his daughter, who works on a loading dock for a delivery company, have had their troubles since she moved in, but none were significant.
“Same things as when she was a kid,” he said. “She knows to pick up after herself. Just such things as that.”
Police say that on Sunday, Lewis contacted an unnamed witness, offering him $25,000 to kill her father. The witness contacted investigators, who sent an undercover officer with him to make the deal.
About 4 a.m. Monday, Lewis met with an undercover officer in the parking lot of a Dallas shopping center. She gave him a pistol as collateral and to serve as the murder weapon, police say. She said she wanted it done as soon as possible, and afterward she and her mother would pay the fee out of Kenneth Hughes’ life insurance settlement, police say.
For years, Hughes has worked as a dispatcher for a waste company. He has a $200,000 life insurance policy and $200,000 more in accident insurance, he said. “She knew I had it,” he said of his wife. “We have to renew it once a year.”
Police did not detail Shirley Hughes’ involvement in the alleged plot, except to say she admitted conspiring with her daughter. Relatives were shocked the mother would be accused of such a crime.
“When we heard about this, I told my husband, ‘You’ve got to be kidding; she was framed or something,’ ” said Debbie Bilbrey, who is married to Shirley Hughes’ brother. “Because Shirley wouldn’t do that.”
Police confirmed Monday they had never been called to the Hughes home in the 2700 block of Cedar Elm Lane in Garland.
Bilbrey said the Hugheses had problems like any couple, but none seemed serious.
“She worshipped that man,” Bilbrey said. “She used to make me so mad because she’d fix his plate and carry it to him every night for supper. I kept telling her you’re spoiling him rotten.”
Bilbrey had less to say about Lewis.
“I don’t know, I think she just went to the wayward side or something,” she said. “I don’t want to say anything bad about her.”
dallasnews
Kenneth Hughes was at work early Monday when detectives asked him to come to Dallas police headquarters and answer some questions: Did he and his wife and daughter have trouble getting along? Were there problems within the family?
Hughes, 57, says that he told them no. Afterward he learned what the questions were about. Officers were arresting his wife of 33 years and their daughter, who they said had tried to hire someone to kill him.
“It just floored me,” Hughes said. “I couldn’t believe it.”
Tammie Lafawne Lewis, 31, and her mother, Shirley Bilbrey Hughes, 56, were booked into the Dallas County Jail about 10 a.m. Each is being held in lieu of $100,000 bail and faces charges of solicitation to commit capital murder. Police say they planned to collect on Kenneth Hughes’ life insurance policy.
When detectives told him his wife had confessed, Hughes requested to speak with her but was told he couldn’t. Later he explained what he might have said to her.
“I guess I’d ask her if it was true and ask her why,” he said. “I don’t understand.”
Hughes and his wife lived in a three-bedroom brick house in Garland. Lewis, the elder of their two daughters, moved in last year with her 10-year-old son after a divorce.
Hughes said he got along well with his wife, who looks after infants at a child-care center.
“She’s the best-natured woman you’d ever see,” he said. “She gets along with everybody. We very seldom ever argue.”
Hughes said he and his daughter, who works on a loading dock for a delivery company, have had their troubles since she moved in, but none were significant.
“Same things as when she was a kid,” he said. “She knows to pick up after herself. Just such things as that.”
Police say that on Sunday, Lewis contacted an unnamed witness, offering him $25,000 to kill her father. The witness contacted investigators, who sent an undercover officer with him to make the deal.
About 4 a.m. Monday, Lewis met with an undercover officer in the parking lot of a Dallas shopping center. She gave him a pistol as collateral and to serve as the murder weapon, police say. She said she wanted it done as soon as possible, and afterward she and her mother would pay the fee out of Kenneth Hughes’ life insurance settlement, police say.
For years, Hughes has worked as a dispatcher for a waste company. He has a $200,000 life insurance policy and $200,000 more in accident insurance, he said. “She knew I had it,” he said of his wife. “We have to renew it once a year.”
Police did not detail Shirley Hughes’ involvement in the alleged plot, except to say she admitted conspiring with her daughter. Relatives were shocked the mother would be accused of such a crime.
“When we heard about this, I told my husband, ‘You’ve got to be kidding; she was framed or something,’ ” said Debbie Bilbrey, who is married to Shirley Hughes’ brother. “Because Shirley wouldn’t do that.”
Police confirmed Monday they had never been called to the Hughes home in the 2700 block of Cedar Elm Lane in Garland.
Bilbrey said the Hugheses had problems like any couple, but none seemed serious.
“She worshipped that man,” Bilbrey said. “She used to make me so mad because she’d fix his plate and carry it to him every night for supper. I kept telling her you’re spoiling him rotten.”
Bilbrey had less to say about Lewis.
“I don’t know, I think she just went to the wayward side or something,” she said. “I don’t want to say anything bad about her.”
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