February 19, 2010 - COLUMBIA, SC—Acting United States Attorney Kevin F. McDonald stated that Judy W. Dickson, age 42, of Salley, South Carolina, was sentenced in federal court today by United States District Judge Margaret B. Seymour, to 87 months' imprisonment for hiring a man to murder her estranged husband and his son.
In May 2009, Ms. Dickson agreed to pay her boyfriend David Hutto to burn the Shallote, North Carolina, home of her estranged husband, Raymond Dickson, and his adult son, Ryan Dickson, while they slept inside. Ms. Dickson told Hutto that she was concerned about her divorce settlement and wanted the proceeds of Raymond s life insurance policy. Hutto told Ms. Dickson he would carry out the plan, but instead alerted Raymond. Hutto then taped phone calls he made to Ms. Dickson, in which they discussed plans to kill Raymond and Ryan via arson, by placing pine straw under the crawl space of Raymond s home and igniting it with gasoline, causing a fire that would result in the death of both men. Hutto turned the tapes over to the FBI, and agents monitored an additional call in which Ms. Dickson insisted that the plot be carried out.
Mr. McDonald stated that the case was investigated by agents of the FBI. Assistant United States Attorney Robert C. Jendron, Jr., of the Columbia office prosecuted the case.
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