Posted on 03/05/2014 7:27:58 AM PST by KeyLargo
Wife killed Ga. soldier for insurance, feds say By Jan Skutch Morris News Service March 5, 2014
SAVANNAH, Ga. -- The wife of a slain Fort Stewart soldier schemed with her brother to kill her husband in exchange for a $160,000 insurance policy payout, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday.
Lillie Eubank, 39, told investigators she arranged to have her brother, Carl Evan Cowboy Swain, travel from Alabama to Savannah, bought a T-ball bat and selected the site for the attack at a recreation park on Fort Stewart, Assistant U.S. Attorney Cameron Heaps Ippolito said.
The victim, Army Spc. John Joseph Beans Eubank, 29, was found badly injured Nov. 30 by another solider. He was taken to Winn Army Community Hospital, where he died from blunt force trauma.
Lillie Eubank is charged with murder in the case. If convicted, she faces life in prison or the death penalty. Ippolito told U.S. Magistrate Judge G.R. Smith Tuesday she expects to present the case against Lillie Eubank to a federal grand jury Wednesday.
This is a clear case for pre-trial detention, Smith ruled in ordering the defendant to remain in custody.
He said the defendant is destitute, a flight risk and a danger to the community if released.
Smith denied a defense request for a preliminary hearing but said that if prosecutors fail to obtain an indictment this week, he will schedule a preliminary hearing in the case next week.
Swain, 43, was indicted Jan. 9 on a murder charge with special findings and remains in custody.
Prosecutors are expected to seek permission from the Justice Department to seek the death penalty in that case.
According to Ippolito, the defendant planned to pay her brother $30,000 in cash from her husbands $500,000 life insurance policy over several mailings to his home in Alabama.
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Im of a mind to post it to her MEET ME PAGE......posting as Ellie Mae Un
HOLY JESUES WHAT IN GOD’S GREAT CREATION IS THAT DAMN THING!?!?!?!
He married it.
The war on women continues.
Wait, what?
Now I am not certain. I tried comparing his photo in uniform and that of the guy next to her, but it could be.
Come on Laz. Step up on this one.
At first I thought this was another “puffy Hillary” photo — could be her relative, given the shared looks and values.
Ya, not everyone is blessed with aesthetically pleasing forms.
I don’t get it, but geez, I saw that and and laughed too. What bet did he lose?
Sure do, hang em from trees if convicted, and I see no reason why they wouldn’t be.
Lawyer likely to pull the ‘cripple card’ for the wife....picture in the thread shows her sitting in it.
Use a heavier tree with a thick rope to accommodate the chair then, I’m not discriminatory.
Crippled or not a murderer is a murderer.
That’s true. She be guilty - in a lot more ways than one.
On the advice of counsel, Laz is taking the fifth on this one...
Not an "Aesthetically pleasing form huh?" That's one way of putting it.
Ugly as a bucket of smashed rats is another way.....Poor guy. He is definitely in a better place. Heaven or hell.
Normally I would say she (are we sure it's a she?)looked like it fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down, but in her case I figure the whole damn tree up and fell on her!
I sort of felt bad in a way for laughing but WOW! What did he ever see in her? Did he get snockered and woke up married? I know.. we are so mean!!
That beaver’s moustache is actually thinner. (okay... I’m stopping now)
My computer would self destruct if I dared click that link!
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