Kevin Lee

In the top story of 2023, a Thomasville mother was charged in a plot to kill her estranged husband. With 69,1000 views, Lindsay Shiver gained international attention after being arrested in the Bahamas.

Thomasville resident Lindsay Shiver was arrested after Bahamian Police said they uncovered a plot crafted by her and two men to kill her estranged husband, Robert Shiver.

According to Bahamas Court News, police arrested Shiver, 36, along with her lover Terrance Bethel, 28, of Guana Cay, Abaco and suspected hitman Farron Newbold Jr., 28, of the Bahamas.

Bahamian police said they uncovered the plot on July 16, while searching the phone and social media app of a suspected burglar.

A source familiar with the investigation said the Shivers have a home in the Bahamas, where Lindsay first began an affair with Bethel. Upon Robert finding out about the suspected affair, he filed for divorce.

That is when Lindsay, Bethel and and Newbold Jr. were said to have concocted a plan to murder Robert.

“On July 16, 2023 at Abaco, while being together did, with a common purpose agree to commit an offense, namely the murder of Richard Shiver,” said the police report.

Once arrested in Abaco, the trio was flown to Nassau, where they appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Roberto Reckley on Friday, August 4, 2023.

According to Lindsay’s attorney, Reckley was not authorized to grant her a bail. To receive a bail, Lindsay will have to apply with the Supreme Court in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.

Lindsay later was granted and released on a bail of $100,000 and pled not-guilty. She will have to return to court in March 2024 for the beginning of her trial.