Authorities to Share Hood Case Data : Probe: The information may aid investigators trying to solve murder of the Newport Beach developer’s wife.

One day after Newport Beach developer James N. Hood was convicted of killing a former employee, San Bernardino authorities said they will cooperate with Northern California investigators trying to solve the murder of Hood’s wife.

Bonnie Hood was shot and killed at her Sierra Nevada lodge in Tulare County in August, 1990. Prosecutors say they believe Hood hired an employee, Bruce E. Beauchamp, to kill his wife so Hood could collect on a $500,000 insurance policy.

Hood was convicted Thursday of luring Beauchamp to his death--a murder prosecutors believe was motivated by Hood’s desire to silence the gunman.

Hood has denied any involvement in his wife’s death. No charges have been filed against him in that case.

San Bernardino County sheriff’s investigators plan to meet with Tulare County authorities next week to discuss information collected during the Beauchamp murder investigation, officials said.

“We just want to make sure they know about anything we may have uncovered,” said Woody Williams, executive officer of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. “We just want to make sure nothing falls through the cracks.”

At the time of her murder, Bonnie Hood was with her lover, who was shot, but survived and later testified that Beauchamp was the assailant. A jury, however, acquitted Beauchamp of murder in that case.

Hood said he was acting in self-defense when he fatally shot Beauchamp in March, 1992, in Fontana. A San Bernardino County Superior Court jury rejected that claim and convicted Hood of first-degree murder. He faces 30 years to life in prison when he is sentenced in January.