FAYETTEVILLE -- A Lincoln woman accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill her estranged husband pleaded guilty Monday in Washington County Circuit Court.
Jamie Lee Cianflone, 48, of 312 W. Pridemore Drive was arrested in September 2014 in connection with felony solicitation to commit capital murder.
Circuit Judge Mark Lindsay sentenced Cianflone to 30 years in prison with 20 years suspended for murder solicitation. She was given credit for 403 days of jail time served.
She was ordered to have no contact with her estranged husband.
Cianflone thought she was hiring a hit man to kill her estranged husband, who lives in Florida, but the hit man turned out to be an undercover detective who was wearing a recording device, according to an arrest report.
A confidential informant tipped off police to Cianflone's intentions, according to an arrest report. Officers then set up a sting operation, the report says.
Cianflone told the detective that she could gain financially by killing her husband, according to the report. Cianflone told the detective that her husband had cheated her out of large sums of money for child support and other things, and that she wanted what was rightfully hers.
According to the report, Cianflone said she wanted her estranged husband killed so brutally that "his own mother would not be able to identify the body." She agreed to pay $5,000 for the murder, according to the report.
Cianflone was sent to the State Hospital for a mental examination. She reportedly told doctors that she felt drugged on the day she met with the undercover detective and felt that her boyfriend had set her up. Cianflone also said that she was scared, panicked and intimidated by the detective and just wanted to be home and away from the man. She said she felt she was in danger when he showed her a machete, according to reports.
According to the mental evaluation, Cianflone suffered from major depressive disorder, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and had borderline personality traits at the time of the evaluation.
But, doctors said Cianflone did not have a mental disease or defect at the time she met to arrange the slaying, and she did not lack the capacity to appreciate the criminality of her conduct or to conform her conduct to the requirements of the law.
Metro on 11/11/2015