Couple sentenced in Morgan County murder-for-hire plot

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     (AP) – A Texas man and woman have been given prison

sentences after pleading guilty in a 2015 alleged murder plot of a Morgan County

man and his family.

     Morgan County Prosecuting Attorney Dustin Dunklee tells the News Tribune that

Patience Giersdorf is sentenced to 10 years in the Missouri Department of

Corrections for a class B felony of conspiracy to commit murder. Nicholas

Hartman is sentenced to 15 years in the same prison for a class B felony of

conspiracy to commit murder in the first degree.

     Deputies received notice Feb. 6, 2015, of a possible murder-for-hire plot to

take place in Morgan County, which was later verified by an informant during the

investigation.

     Hartman and Giersdorf met with an undercover deputy one week later and

allegedly negotiated for the murder of a man and his family members. The couple

was then arrested.




   

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