Life Insurance coverage At Middle Of Jacksonville Homicide-For-Rent Plot

Florida Instances-Union (Jacksonville, FL)

A 37-year-old man is the third individual behind bars within the Could 9 murder-for-hire of 44-year-old Velvet Love Burns in her Doris Lane residence on town's Westside, based on the Jacksonville Sheriff's Workplace.

Stephen Shelton Hand, already in jail after an unrelated Could 29 arrest, was formally charged Tuesday with homicide.

He joins Burns' 50-year-old husband, Jerry "Tommy" Allen Burns, and his 30-year-old mistress, Amanda Lee Love, already jailed on homicide expenses within the case, the Sheriff's Workplace mentioned. Courtroom data present Hand and Love have three kids collectively.

The Could 9 murder was staged to seem like a housebreaking, the Sheriff's Workplace beforehand mentioned. The husband instructed officers he had left the house about three:30 a.m. for a job in Tallahassee, then a household good friend discovered his spouse's physique that afternoon. However the investigation revealed he was having an affair with Love.

Burns is accused of conspiring with Like to homicide his spouse, providing $5,000 for her to drive different suspects to the scene on the dead-end street off Commonwealth Avenue, promising a further sum of after the homicide was achieved. The quantity can be contributed from the sufferer's life insurance coverage coverage, the Sheriff's Workplace mentioned.

In saying Hand's arrest, the Sheriff's Workplace mentioned he was seen stabbing the sufferer and destroying proof. Forensic proof discovered on the homicide scene additionally locations Hand there. The Sheriff's Workplace mentioned he and the sufferer didn't know one another.

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