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Woman Tries to Hire Hitman to Kill Informant

Woman Tries to Hire Hitman to Kill Informant - Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 4:50PM EST

Reported by: Eyewitness News
Tuesday, Mar 2, 2010 @ 05:50pm EST
LACEYVILLE, WYOMING COUNTY -- A Wyoming County woman is accused of trying to hire an undercover state trooper to murder an informant.

Troopers say Michelle Parkhurst of Laceyville paid the undercover cop for the murder to get revenge.

Parkhurst says she wanted the informant killed for recently setting up her husband on drug charges.

She is in jail on $100,000 bail.