Murder plot suspect Lindsay Shiver not only wants charges dismissed, plans to sue island authorities for arrest

The mother-of-three is charged of conspiring with her lover Terrance Bethel to have her estranged husband, wealthy insurance scion, Robert Shiver, 40, killed

Shiver, 39, was arrested by Royal Bahamas Police Force in the 2023 plot to murder Robert Shiver, 40, at their vacation home in the Caribbean

The former pageant queen and cheerleader Lindsay Shiver first appeared in a court in the Bahamas in December, 2023 charged with attempted murder

Case against Shiver hinges on WhatsApp messages she allegedly sent to her barman lover Adrien Bethel, 30, and his friend Faron Newbold Jr, 31, in July 2023

Shiver and co-defendants Terence Bethel and the latter’s friend Faron Newbold all pled not guilty

Lindsay Shiver not only wants charges dismissed, plans to sue island authorities for arrest

Lindsay Shiver from Georgia, has waited three years to go on trial for allegedly hiring a hitman to kill her husband Robert Shiver in the Caribbean, but now the woman charged with masterminding the sinister plot is hoping that the latest legal maneuvers by her lawyers would obviate the prospect of going through with trial..
Shiver’s new lawyer claims authorities in the Bahamas have no legal authority to prosecute the mom-of-three for conspiring to murder Robert Shiver, 40, because she was back home in the US when the alleged assassination plot, supposedly took place.
Lindsey Shiver, 39, not only wants the charges dismissed, but she could also sue the Royal Bahamas Police Force for wrongful arrest.
If convicted as charged she will be looking at spending 60 years in an island prison. The optimistic legal gambit comes as the long-awaited trial for the mother-of-three was again pushed back, to begin November 2, meaning that would have waited three years and four months after her initial arrest to determine her fate..
The case against Shiver hinges on WhatsApp messages she allegedly sent to her barman lover Adrien Bethel, 30, and his friend Faron Newbold Jr, 31, in July 2023.
Charging documents claim Shiver sent Newbold a photo of Robert drinking at a beach bar close to their vacation home in the Abaco Islands, along with an instruction to ‘kill him’.
She was arrested several days later in the Bahamas but her recently-retained lawyer Terrel Butler points out that the messages were sent before she arrived in the country.

Linda Shiver [right], was arrested allegedly, for allegedly trying to hire a hitman to assassinate husband Robert Shiver [left], as he vacationed alone in the Bahamas in July 2023. Her attorneys filed a motion alleging island police had no jurisdiction to detain and question her

Lindsay Shiver is seeking to have her charges dismissed, claiming wrongful arrest, three years after she was charged with an alleged murder-for-hire plot against her husband 
That means officers had no jurisdiction to detain and question Shiver and the trial should therefore be scrapped, according to a motion filed last week by her new lawyer.
Senior Justice Cheryl Grant-Thompson is expected to issue a ruling by the end of the month.
The Shivers enjoyed a gilded lifestyle prior to their chaotic breakup, splitting time between a seven-bed mansion in Thomasville, Georgia, and a vacation home in Baker’s Bay, an ultra-exclusive Abaco resort frequented by the likes of Tom Brady and Michael Jordan.
After 13 years of marriage insurance scion Robert Shiver, 40, filed for divorce in April 2023, accusing his wife of cheating, while Lindsey countered with claims of ‘physical and mentally cruel treatment’.

Lindsay was charged in the Bahamas with conspiring with her barman boyfriend Adrien Bethel, 30, [left], to have his childhood friend Faron Newbold Jr [right], 31, kill her estranged husband Robert Shiver 

Three months after the filing, she was charged in the Bahamas with conspiring with Bethel to recruit the latter’s childhood pal Newbold for a ‘hit’ on her husband.
Robert had flown alone to the Bahamas in the couple’s private jet, after a blazing row over her affair with Bethel.
Shiver admitted to police that she authored the messaged to her lover stating that she ‘wanted to kill’ Robert. She further admitted that Bethel ‘understood’ and ‘wanted to kill him also’.

After the mom-of-three [left], appeared in court in the Bahamas in Dec. 2024, charged with conspiracy to commit murder. She spent 19 days inside Nassau’s Fox Hill prison

However, in the very same interview, she insisted that any talk of murder was merely ‘said out of anger and frustration’, according to prosecution documents.
Robert was unaware of the alleged threats to his life until police quizzed Bethel over an unrelated break-in and discovered the messages on his phone.
‘This n***a rolled up on Lindsay and wouldn’t let her on the plane and he put his hands on her,’ Bethel had allegedly written to Newbold.
‘I am about to come out of retirement for this n***a. He is flying into Baker’s Bay, she is thinking about letting me kill him but he has the kids.’

The Alabama native won the title of Miss Houston County in 2005 and then went before climbing to second runner-up in the National Peanut Festival pageant the same year

When the murder plot came to light, Robert Shiver branded his wife Lindsey, ‘manipulating’ and accused her of having multiple affairs. After being married for 13 years, the couple who shared three children, had become estranged

Shaken Robert branded his wife ‘manipulating’ and accused her of having multiple affairs, according to the docs.
She was charged with conspiracy to commit murder and spent 19 days inside Nassau’s notorious Fox Hill Prison before she was released with a GPS ankle monitor and allowed to return to the States to live with her parents in Alabama.
Lindsey Shiver was locked up for a further four months in late 2024, for breaching pre-trial publicity restrictions by appearing in a news segment on ABC’s Good Morning America.
Robert, who has never spoken publicly about his estranged wife, is still living in Thomasville where their hostile divorce and custody battle slowly crawls towards its conclusion.