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NASHVILLE — A former Nashville attorney convicted of murdering his wife and plotting to kill her parents schemed to get himself transferred to a less secure Tennessee prison so he could escape, officials say. Perry March instead was moved to a maximum-security facility and placed in isolation, Dorinda Carter, a spokeswoman for the Tennessee Department of Correction, said Tuesday. Prison officials declined to say how they learned of the alleged escape plot, citing the ongoing investigation. One of March's lawyers, John Herbison, said he was skeptical of the claims by prison officials and questioned why they have refused to disclose...

NASHVILLE — A jury on Thursday convicted a former Nashville attorney of killing his socialite wife, whose body has never found after she disappeared 10 years ago. The sequestered Chattanooga jury deliberated most of Wednesday night and Thursday in a murder case that has fascinated and mystified Nashville since Janet Levine March went missing August of 1996. Perry March, 45, an ex-attorney, was found guilty on all of the charges against him — second-degree murder, abuse of a corpse, and tampering with evidence. There were no known witnesses to his wife's death, but she was declared legally dead in 2000....

NASHVILLE - Accused killer Perry March told a fellow jail inmate that if his in-laws were dead his chances of beating a murder rap for his wife's death would go from 40 to 90 percent. March hatched a jailhouse plot with inmate Russell Farris in 2005 to kill the parents of his missing wife, Janet March, while he awaited trial for her death. But March did not know that Farris was recording their conversations at the behest of authorities. On Monday, jurors listened to audio tapes in which March details the plot to kill Larry and Carolyn Levine. March, 45,...

Included are former, current officers; experts say tactic could be to shed doubt - Perry March, on trial for murdering his wife, Janet, ten years ago, wants to subpoena virtually every cop that has ever been involved in this case.

BREAKING NEWS: Jury Returns With Guilty Verdict Posted: 6/8/2006 2:48:00 PM Updated: 6/8/2006 3:06:31 PM After three hours of deliberation on Wednesday and nearly five hours on Thursday, the jury in Perry March’s murder-for-hire trial found March guilty on all counts. Perry March walked into the court room Thursday afternoon at 2:30. His demeanor was relaxed. There were several people in the court room waiting for the jury to deliver the verdict including police officers, the March family, and the Levines. The jury found March guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, and guilty on two counts of solicitation to commit...

Arthur March confessed in federal court Monday to helping his son Perry dispose of his wife Janet’s body. It was part of a plea bargain in which Arthur March pleaded guilty to conspiracy to the murder of Janet March’s parents, Lawrence and Carolyn Levine. At the hearing, Arthur March said Perry had confessed to Arthur that he killed Janet in a dispute in their house in Forrest Hills by a blow to the head with a wrench. The sentencing of Arthur March is scheduled for May 1 at 1 p.m. at federal court.