KATY, Texas – A Katy woman was arrested Wednesday after police said she tried to hire a hit man to murder her husband.
The problem for her was, the hit man was actually a police informant who turned her in to authorities.
Police said Catherine Shamp approached the informant and told him she was interested in a murder-for-hire on Monday.
The informant notified police, who then set up a sting operation.
Police outfitted the informant with a recording device and scheduled a Tuesday meeting with Shamp.
According to police, investigators then listened as Catherine Shamp offered $20,000 for the murder of her husband, 38-year-old David Shamp.
Police moved in, and she was taken to the Harris County Jail and charged with solicitation for capital murder.
Bail was set at $30,000.
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