Contained in the Case of the Magnificence Queen and the Plot to Kill Her Husband

Packing baggage and getting out of the door for a household trip can result in rigidity — however the scene that unfolded when Lindsay Shiver known as 911 over a dispute she was having together with her husband, Robert, as they ready to journey to the Bahamas with their three boys in the summertime of 2023 was way more heated. 

Lindsay, 38, advised responding officers, “It’s been hell on earth, as you may think about.” 

Within the midst of an acrimonious divorce, she claimed Robert, 39, had turn into “aggressive” and forbade her to get on the household’s non-public jet as a result of she was planning to spend time within the Bahamas together with her new boyfriend. 

“I advised her, I’m not supporting that,” Robert says in police bodycam video of the incident exterior their home in Thomasville, Ga. “You’re not getting on the airplane. That may mess with the youngsters’ heads. It’s simply one thing we’re not going to do.”

The dispute got here to a head later that day when, after arriving within the Bahamas on the Shiver household’s townhouse on the unique Baker’s Bay Golf & Ocean Membership in Nice Guana Cay, Robert was seen at a close-by bar arm-in-arm with one other lady in pictures that have been despatched to Lindsay. 

In line with Bahamian authorities, Lindsay despatched a WhatsApp group textual content to her then-boyfriend, Terrance Bethel, 30, a bartender, and his pal Farron Newbold Jr., 31, with the images of her husband and the lady on the bar and a chilling two-word message: “Kill him.” 

5 days later, on July 21, 2023, Bahamian police arrested Lindsay, Bethel and Newbold, accusing the lovers of enlisting Newbold in a plot to kill Lindsay’s husband. Charged with conspiracy to commit homicide, the defendants have pleaded not responsible. If convicted, they might withstand 60 years in jail. 

A decide has imposed a gag order, and attorneys for Lindsay, Bethel and Newbold couldn’t be reached for remark. Via a consultant, Robert declined to remark. However in a 2024 interview with ABC Information cited in a bail listening to, Bethel, who’s now not seeing Lindsay, denied the existence of a murder-for-hire plot.

“No one ever wished Robert useless,” he mentioned. “I’m positively not responsible of conspiracy to commit homicide, and [Farron] is just not responsible of being a employed hitman. It’s time to let the world know that we’re harmless.”

For some time it appeared like Robert and Lindsay Shiver had all of it. The couple met in a health class in 2007 whereas attending Auburn College, the place Lindsay, a former magnificence queen in native pageants round her residence city of Dothan, Ala., was a cheerleader, and Robert, a Georgia native, was an extended snapper on the soccer crew.

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They acquired married in 2010 and raised three boys whereas Robert, after a quick stint with the Atlanta Falcons, went to work in insurance coverage and settled in Thomasville. On social media, Lindsay posted pictures of the household on ski journeys to Vail and entertaining visitors on their non-public jet and at their residence within the members-only resort within the Bahamas.

However by early 2023, Lindsay had begun seeing Bethel. On April 5, Robert filed for divorce, accusing his spouse of  “adulterous conduct.”

Lindsay filed papers of her personal the very subsequent day. In response to the infidelity declare, Lindsay mentioned in court docket paperwork that her extramarital relationship was “through the events’ separation and legally condoned by [her] husband.”

She additionally accused him of “bodily and psychological merciless remedy.”

Though formally estranged, the couple have been nonetheless dwelling along with their three sons below the age of 11 on the time of the July 16, 2023, altercation exterior their home. (No costs have been filed in that incident). 

Bahamian police declare they found the alleged plot to kill Robert whereas investigating an unrelated theft at Grabbers, the bar the place Bethel as soon as labored, in keeping with an indictment obtained by ABC Information.

Suspecting an inside job, police searched the contents of workers’ telephones and located the message allegedly ordering Robert’s homicide that was despatched by Lindsay to Bethel and Newbold, a digital creator and longtime pal of Bethel’s. When proven the message, Robert mentioned he feared for his life and requested “police motion,” in keeping with a police report. 

In a court docket look by way of Zoom, Robert mentioned he was “grateful to be alive,” Courtroom TV reported.

Following their arrests, Lindsay and Bethel have been launched on bail. In an interview with Good Morning America, Bethel laid out their potential protection, explaining that Lindsay was venting after arguing together with her husband and used the phrases “kill him” as a determine of speech. 

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“Every time she will get into an argument with [Robert] and she or he tells me about it, in fact I’m furious about it,” Bethel mentioned. “However planning to homicide him? No.” 

Lindsay is at the moment dwelling together with her dad and mom in Alabama forward of her trial within the Bahamas, scheduled to start in August. She sued for, and gained, visitation rights to spend time together with her youngsters. 

In the meantime, Robert has moved on. In January, he appeared on the podcast Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley in an episode titled “Meet My Boyfriend,” revealing that he and the truth TV star had been relationship for greater than a 12 months. He’s nonetheless adjusting to life as a single father with three boys, however the future together with his new love appears promising. 

Chrisley, 27, advised PEOPLE in February, “We come collectively and we get pleasure from our time, and we love one another.”

As for marriage, “I simply imagine that when the timing’s proper,” she added, “and when it’s imagined to occur, it’s going to occur.”

• With reporting by CHRIS SPARGO