Murder-for-Hire Case Comes to An End

Editor’s note: We published this story earlier in the week, but here it is again in case you missed it.

On Monday, Tiffany Stevens pleaded guilty to inciting injury to persons, reports the Hartford Courant.

Her sentence is 10 years suspended, five years probation, and no contact with the alleged victim, her former husband, Eric Stevens.

In December, her murder-for-hire trial ended with a mistrial after the three men and three women on the jury said they were hopelessly deadlocked.

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Simsbury police initially charged Stevens with inciting injury to persons, but prosecutors later increased the charge to attempted murder.

Despite the charge of attempted murder against her, a family court judge allowed her to have custody of her daughter. Her parents went to court recently to seek custody of their granddaughter in case their daughter was convicted.

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Stevens was arrested by Simsbury Police on July 13, 2012 and charged with inciting injury to persons or property. According to an arrest warrant affadavit, she paid a man $5,000 to kill her ex-husband, a Simsbury resident, following a bitter divorce.

The couple filed for divorce in 2009 and were then involved in a custody struggle for their daughter. Tiffany Stevens had custody of their daughter and also allegedly maintained control of $50 million in holdings set aside for the custodial parent.

To read the full Courant story, click here.