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American woman charged in Bahamas for conspiring to murder husband wants charges dismissed, plans to sue island authorities for arrest

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1b0505&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Murder plot suspect Lindsay Shiver not only wants charges dismissed&comma; plans to sue island authorities for arrest <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1b0505&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>The mother-of-three is charged of conspiring with her lover Terrance Bethel to have her estranged husband&comma; wealthy insurance scion&comma; Robert Shiver&comma; 40&comma; killed <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1b0505&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Shiver&comma; 39&comma; was arrested by Royal Bahamas Police Force in the 2023 plot to murder Robert Shiver&comma; 40&comma; at their vacation home in the Caribbean <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1b0505&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>The former pageant queen and cheerleader Lindsay Shiver first appeared in a court in the Bahamas in December&comma; 2023 charged with attempted murder <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1b0505&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Case against Shiver hinges on WhatsApp messages she allegedly sent to her barman lover Adrien Bethel&comma; 30&comma; and his friend Faron Newbold Jr&comma; 31&comma; in July 2023<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1b0505&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Shiver and co-defendants Terence Bethel and the latter&&num;8217&semi;s friend Faron Newbold all pled not guilty<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;08&sol;Lindsey-Shiver-calls-police-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-448775" style&equals;"width&colon;756px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Lindsay Shiver not only wants charges dismissed&comma; plans to sue island authorities for arrest <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Lindsay Shiver from Georgia&comma; has waited three years to go on trial for allegedly hiring a hitman to kill her husband Robert Shiver in the Caribbean&comma; 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&period;&period;<br>Shiver&&num;8217&semi;s new lawyer claims authorities in the Bahamas have no legal authority to prosecute the mom-of-three for conspiring to murder Robert Shiver&comma; 40&comma; because she was back home in the US when the alleged assassination plot&comma; supposedly took place&period;<br>Lindsey Shiver&comma; 39&comma; not only wants the charges dismissed&comma; but she could also sue the Royal Bahamas Police Force for wrongful arrest&period;<br>If convicted as charged she will be looking at spending 60 years in an island prison&period; The optimistic legal gambit comes as the long-awaited trial for the mother-of-three was again pushed back&comma; to begin November 2&comma; meaning that would have waited three years and four months after her initial arrest to determine her fate&period;&period;<br>The case against Shiver hinges on WhatsApp messages she allegedly sent to her barman lover Adrien Bethel&comma; 30&comma; and his friend Faron Newbold Jr&comma; 31&comma; in July 2023&period;<br>Charging documents claim Shiver sent Newbold a photo of Robert drinking at a beach bar close to their vacation home in the Abaco Islands&comma; along with an instruction to &&num;8216&semi;kill him&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br>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&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;07&sol;Robert-and-Lindsey-Shiver-4&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-500079" style&equals;"aspect-ratio&colon;1&period;027469184747351&semi;width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Linda Shiver &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; was arrested allegedly&comma; for allegedly trying to hire a hitman to assassinate husband Robert Shiver &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; as he vacationed alone in the Bahamas in July 2023&period; Her attorneys filed a motion alleging island police had no jurisdiction to detain and question her<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Lindsay Shiver is seeking to have her charges dismissed&comma; claiming wrongful arrest&comma; three years after she was charged with an alleged murder-for-hire plot against her husband <br>That means officers had no jurisdiction to detain and question Shiver and the trial should therefore be scrapped&comma; according to a motion filed last week by her new lawyer&period;<br>Senior Justice Cheryl Grant-Thompson is expected to issue a ruling by the end of the month&period;<br>The Shivers enjoyed a gilded lifestyle prior to their chaotic breakup&comma; splitting time between a seven-bed mansion in Thomasville&comma; Georgia&comma; and a vacation home in Baker&&num;8217&semi;s Bay&comma; an ultra-exclusive Abaco resort frequented by the likes of Tom Brady and Michael Jordan&period;<br>After 13 years of marriage insurance scion Robert Shiver&comma; 40&comma; filed for divorce in April 2023&comma; accusing his wife of cheating&comma; while Lindsey countered with claims of &&num;8216&semi;physical and mentally cruel treatment&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;08&sol;Terrance-Bethel-left-and-Faron-Newbold-right-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-446388"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Lindsay was charged in the Bahamas with conspiring with her barman boyfriend Adrien Bethel&comma; 30&comma; &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; to have his childhood friend Faron Newbold Jr &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; 31&comma; kill her estranged husband Robert Shiver <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Three months after the filing&comma; she was charged in the Bahamas with conspiring with Bethel to recruit the latter&&num;8217&semi;s childhood pal Newbold for a &&num;8216&semi;hit&&num;8217&semi; on her husband&period;<br>Robert had flown alone to the Bahamas in the couple&&num;8217&semi;s private jet&comma; after a blazing row over her affair with Bethel&period;<br>Shiver admitted to police that she authored the messaged to her lover stating that she &&num;8216&semi;wanted to kill&&num;8217&semi; Robert&period; She further admitted that Bethel &&num;8216&semi;understood&&num;8217&semi; and &&num;8216&semi;wanted to kill him also&&num;8217&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;07&sol;Lindsey-Shiver-arrest-9&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-500088" style&equals;"width&colon;821px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>After the mom-of-three &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; appeared in court in the Bahamas in Dec&period; 2024&comma; charged with conspiracy to commit murder&period; She spent 19 days inside Nassau&&num;8217&semi;s Fox Hill prison<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">However&comma; in the very same interview&comma; she insisted that any talk of murder was merely &&num;8216&semi;said out of anger and frustration&&num;8217&semi;&comma; according to prosecution documents&period;<br>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&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;This n&ast;&ast;&ast;a rolled up on Lindsay and wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t let her on the plane and he put his hands on her&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Bethel had allegedly written to Newbold&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;I am about to come out of retirement for this n&ast;&ast;&ast;a&period; He is flying into Baker&&num;8217&semi;s Bay&comma; she is thinking about letting me kill him but he has the kids&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;07&sol;Lindsey-Shiver-12&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-500083" style&equals;"width&colon;818px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>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<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;07&sol;Robert-and-Lindsey-Shiver-with-their-children-5&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-500089" style&equals;"width&colon;811px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>When the murder plot came to light&comma; Robert Shiver branded his wife Lindsey&comma; &&num;8216&semi;manipulating&&num;8217&semi; and accused her of having multiple affairs&period; After being married for 13 years&comma; the couple who shared three children&comma; had become estranged<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Shaken Robert branded his wife &&num;8216&semi;manipulating&&num;8217&semi; and accused her of having multiple affairs&comma; according to the docs&period;<br>She was charged with conspiracy to commit murder and spent 19 days inside Nassau&&num;8217&semi;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&period;<br>Lindsey Shiver was locked up for a further four months in late 2024&comma; for breaching pre-trial publicity restrictions by appearing in a news segment on ABC&&num;8217&semi;s Good Morning America&period;<br>Robert&comma; who has never spoken publicly about his estranged wife&comma; is still living in Thomasville where their hostile divorce and custody battle slowly crawls towards its conclusion&period;<br><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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