A Michigan woman was caught on camera plotting with a hit man to end her husband’s life and was sentenced to up to 20 years in prison for it.
Julia Merfeld, 21, decided to hire a hit man in the spring of 2013 to kill her husband because, as she unwittingly told an undercover detective, “it was easier than divorcing him.”
Merfeld first reportedly went to a co-worker and offered him $50,000 to kill the father of her two children, but the co-worker instead went to police and told them about the proposition, according to a report by Mlive at the time.
Soon, an undercover detective contacted Merfeld and they set up a meeting. The two met twice before the young bride was arrested, and both meetings were recorded.
Merfeld was arrested soon after the second meeting. She pleaded guilty to the charge of solicitation to murder in June 2013.
Her husband asked the judge not to sentence her to any jail time. He called her a “wonderful” and “godly” woman and told the court that he had forgiven her, Mlive reported.
WATCH: Woman caught on tape trying to hire hit man to kill husband because ‘it was easier than divorcing him’
