Kindergarten Teacher, School Nurse Held in Murder-for-Hire Plot

[davidn3600]

Source: ABC News and Yahoo

A Virginia elementary school teacher and a school nurse are facing charges in what police are calling a murder-for-hire plot.

Angela Nolen, a 47-year-old kindergarten teacher, was arrested Wednesday for allegedly plotting to hire a hit man to kill her ex-husband for $8,000. According to police, Nolen's friend 37-year-old Cathy Bennett, a school nurse, worked with Nolen to find a hit man.

According to the Franklin County Sheriff's Office, Nolen's plan unraveled when she gave a police officer, working under cover as a hit man, an up-front fee of $4,000 to kill her ex-husband, 63-year-old Paul Strickler.

Strickler, who is the father of Nolen's 7-year-old daughter, told the Roanoke Times he had been working on a deal to sell his house to Nolen.



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[mokawanis]

1. Not exactly mom of the year is she?

strange how seemingly normal people will resort to violence and criminal conspiracy because they're greedy. I wonder about Bennett. Was she involved just to help out her friend, or was she in it for the money? Bizarre story.

[tblue]

2. And who is taking about arming teachers?

I teach and, for anyone who doesn't know it, teachers are just as human as the rest of us. And some are downright effed up.

[Journeyman]

5. My thought precisely -- And there are some who want to indiscriminately arm these people? . . .

[Ian David]

3. More big-gubmint interference in the Free Market and the Second Amendment!

At least they're JOB CREATORS!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. Are there any hitmen outside the mob that are not really cops?

Maybe. I guess.

[tblue37]

6. What makes you think the hitmen in the mob are not cops, too?

Some cops were put in prison a few years ago because they worked as mob hit men.

[Ash_F]

8. Not 'hitmen' in the Hollywood movie sense, but yes.

There are a lot of people who will kill someone for 8,000 dollars sadly. For less even. Probably at least a few in every town. Check the news; these types of murders are not uncommon.

[GiveMeFreedom]

7. These two hapless

ladies, have led a sheltered life from what I am reading between the lines. That's my opinion. I have known members of some very notorious and dubious organizations, that for much less money, would/could do something like that. These wonderfully stupid people were probably afraid of "gangsters of color" and looked for a "more civilized" approach. Of course all conjecture and hyperbole is solely mine.

[Kber]

9. She filed a protective order against her husband and had sole custody of their daughter

Something else going on here besides money, perhaps?

[Tom Ripley]

10. Another reason that outsourcing is just stupid.

Just do it yourself, people.
You don't have to prove you weren't there, but the prosecution does have to prove you were there.