Texas woman sentenced to 20 years for hiring carnival worker to kill son, daughter-in-law
04/10/2023 12:39 pm PDT
SAN ANTONIO (TCD) -- A judge sentenced a 69-year-old woman to 20 years in prison last week for trying to kill her son and daughter-in-law in a murder-for-hire plot.
According to KSAT-TV, Ruth Ann Comer received the sentence Thursday, April 6, for solicitation of capital murder following her conviction in December.
In 2013, Comer reportedly paid a carnival worker to kill her son, Jacob Thomas, and her daughter-in-law, Kristina Moore. She was taken into custody that year, but in 2014, charges against her were dropped. Prosecutors indicted her again in 2018, KSAT reports.
On Aug. 16, 2013, Comer reportedly met with the carnival worker, Charles Grube, and shared details about Moore’s car and the trailer park where she lived. Court documents cited by KSAT say Comer handed Grube a gun and told him, "I want Kristina gone, and if you have to, kill Jacob."
Prosecutors reportedly believed she hired Grube as a way to cover up the death of her boyfriend Jerry Collins. Collins was found dead in his mobile home Jan. 28, 2012, with his throat slashed. Prosecutors allege Comer paid Moore $10,000 to find someone to kill Collins, but she has never been formally charged in connection with his death. Comer reportedly stood to inherit money from Collins following his death.
KSAT reports Comer will be eligible for parole after 10 years.
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