KAUFMAN, Texas (Reuters) - The wife of a former Texas justice of the peace confessed to her involvement in shooting deaths of the local district attorney, his wife and a prosecutor who had helped to convict her husband for stealing computer monitors, the Kaufman County Sheriff's Office said on Wednesday.
Kim Williams, 46, told investigators she was involved in the killings earlier this year of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland, his wife, Cynthia, and Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse. She has been charged with capital murder and is being held in the Kaufman County Jail on a $10 million bond on Wednesday.
Her husband, Eric, who was charged over the weekend on suspicion of threatening violence, denied involvement in the attacks to several media outlets last week. He has not been charged in the killings.
The development resolves the suspense that has surrounded a disturbing series of murders that had rocked the rural area outside of Dallas and stirred fears about the safety of law enforcement officials.
After the McLellands' murders, suspicion fell on the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, a white supremacist prison gang that had threatened retaliation against prosecutors, including Kaufman County prosecutors, who were involved in a multi-agency task force that announced a sweeping federal indictment of dozens of gang members last fall.
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