Model pleads guilty in murder plot to kill husband's ex-wife

In this episode of Crime Watch Daily Updates: Tara Lambert had it all on the outside, but she held a vendetta against her former friend and her husband’s ex-wife, Kellie Cook. Tara told her friend Ginny to make a threatening call to Kellie, and a few months later, Tara asked Ginny if she knew a hitman to hire to kill Kellie. GInny’s conscience told her to reach out to law enforcement.

Ginny connected Tara with a hitman, who was actually an undercover detective. Tara told the suspected assassin to put Kellie “in a chopper, like, one of those lumberjack chopper things.”

In July 2015, Tara paid the fake hitman $125 as a down payment to kill Kellie, but little did Tara know that the undercover detective recorded their conversation.

Tara was convicted in January 2016 of conspiracy to commit aggravated murder and sentenced to 7 years. In 2017, an appeals court overturned her conviction because the indictment never indicated what she actually committed as part of the conspiracy. But the next year, in a new indictment, she pleaded guilty to the same charge and was sentenced to five years in prison with time served.

Now, let’s take a look back at the case of a former aspiring model whose decisions impacted her life and those around her in a flash.

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