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Murder for hire suspect arrested

Posted: 03.22.2011 at 3:49 PM

Updated: 03.22.2011 at 4:55 PM

Read more: State, Crime, Murder for Hire, Arrest, SLED, Chapin, Clinton

Linda Turner / Laurens County Sheriff's Department

CHAPIN (WACH) -- A Chapin woman accused of planning the murder of a former out of state relative is behind bars Tuesday.

The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division says 59-year-old Linda Turner has been charged with attempted murder and solicitation to commit a felony.

Turner paid an undercover agent on March 18 in Clinton to commit the killing according to authorities.

She was released from jail on a $125,000 bond.

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