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A woman from Wyoming is facing serious charges after allegedly asking a friend to make her husband “disappear,” fearing he might take their children away from her.
Molly Hamby, aged 28, is under indictment for solicitation of first-degree murder and solicitation of forgery, according to a report by the Cowboy State Daily.
Recently separated, Hamby had returned to live in the family home as of Saturday, based on court documents. As part of this arrangement, she consented to her husband having access to her text messages.
In reviewing these messages, her husband discovered an alarming exchange from the previous day in which Hamby asked a friend to carry out a “job” — specifically, to make her husband “disappear.” This conversation began on Friday morning and continued into the afternoon following a brief in-person meeting.
“And we need to get this done today if possible he has threatened to take kids away from me a few times,” Hamby wrote in the messages. “He can’t have my kids.”
The husband went to Wheatland Police Chief Bradley Otte on Sunday with the story, and Otte viewed the messages, then met twice with the friend Hamby asked to help her, who is a private investigator. He initially told the chief she’d only asked him to serve as a bodyguard, but later admitted she had asked him to “make someone disappear.”
Otte called Hamby in for an interview on Tuesday, and she admitted she had spoken with her friend, “asking him for help and protection,” the affidavit says.
But when he confronted her with the text thread, she admitted that the texts referred to killing her husband. She said that “she had been extremely mad at (husband) and was in fear of him taking her three children away from her,” the affidavit said. “She stated that (husband) had made statements about taking her children if they got a divorce.”
Hamby was bound over to felony court on Thursday. The friend has not been charged, and officials declined to say whether more charges could be expected.