A Wyoming woman has been charged with solicitng a friend to make her husand “disappear” because she was afraid he would take her children from her.
Molly Hamby, 28, is charged with solicitation of first degree murder and solicitation of forgery, the Cowboy State Daily reports.
Hamby and her husband had been separated, but she moved back into the home on Saturday, court documents say. As part of that deal, she agreed to let him review her text messages.
What he saw was a conversation just a day before with a friend in which she said she a “job” for him — and that job was to make her husband “disappear.” The text messages took place Friday morning and continues Friday afternoon after they met briefly in person.
“And we need to get this done today if possible he has threaten to take kids away from me a few times,” Hamby wrote. “he cant have my kids.”
The husband went to Wheatland Police Chief Bradley Otte on Sunday with the story, and Otte viewed the messages, then met twice with the friend Hamby asked to help her, who is a private investigator. He initially told the chief she’d only asked him to serve as a bodyguard, but later admitted she had asked him to “make someone disappear.”
Otte called Hamby in for an interview on Tuesday, and she admitted she had spoken with her friend, “asking him for help and protection,” the affidavit says.
But when he confronted her with the text thread, she admitted that the texts referred to killing her husband. She said that “she had been extremely mad at (husband) and was in fear of him taking her three children away from her,” the affidavit said. “She stated that (husband) had made statements about taking her children if they got a divorce.”
Hamby was bound over to felony court on Thursday. The friend has not been charged, and officials declined to say whether more charges could be expected.
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[Featured image: Molly Hamby/Platte County Sheriff’s Office]
