Family’s Tale of Incest, Murder Plot Shock Small Town : Mississippi: Woman, 30, and her grandfather, 71, face 5-year prison terms in bid to kill her husband. Their illicit 20-year relationship led to two children.

It’s a story William Faulkner might have written: An 11-year-old girl and her grandfather begin a two-decade incestuous relationship. She bears him two children and, at age 30, confesses to plotting to kill her husband.

But it’s not fiction to Teresa Hutcheson. She lived it. Now she and her grandfather are going to prison.

Teresa Hutcheson, 31, and William Douglas Hinson, 71, have been sentenced to five-year prison terms with no chance of parole for a failed plot to have a hit man kill her husband and make it look like a hunting accident.

They will begin serving their sentences in January.

Jimmy Dean Hutcheson has filed for divorce.

Details of the story have shocked and disgusted residents of this rural community where Teresa Hutcheson lives with her grandmother and the two children, a 16-year-old girl and 9-year-old boy.

“The old man ought to be castrated,” said Clarke Bell, as he sat drinking coffee at Jimbo’s Restaurant.

Authorities taped conversations in which Teresa Hutcheson and her grandfather promised the would-be hit man $25,000 from a $200,000 insurance policy on her husband’s life. The man went to police.

U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers, who handed down the toughest sentence allowed by law, said the case was “the most sordid” he had ever seen from the bench.

Relatives and people who knew the family, including Teresa Hutcheson’s husband, knew of the incestuous relationship between grandfather and granddaughter.

“Nobody said anything back then,” Teresa Hutcheson said in a recent interview with the Associated Press. “If people want to [complain] about it now, someone should have stepped in long ago. They knew.”

Their relationship was “something that just sort of came about,” she said. “I was a kid and my grandfather was weak.”

Hinson has never been charged for his sexual relationship with his granddaughter.

When she was 6, Teresa Hutcheson and her sister moved in with their grandparents after their father died and mother moved away. One child bonded with the grandmother, and Teresa quickly became her grandfather’s “pet.”

Within five years, Hinson was molesting her. At 15, she gave birth to their daughter. Their son was born seven years later.

When Jimmy Dean Hutcheson married Teresa in 1992, he knew about the incestuous relationship and the two children born from it. But he loved his wife and blamed her “bad childhood.”

He “worshiped the ground she walked on,” his stepmother, Marti Hutcheson, said.

But Hutcheson, 29, said he suspected the relationship was not over when Hinson moved in with him and his wife. “The longer we stayed together, the worse it got,” he said.

In November, 1993, Teresa Hutcheson and Hinson started plotting to kill Hutcheson, according to court records.

When the hit fell through, Teresa Hutcheson and Hinson reportedly switched on the electricity while her husband was fixing wiring in May 1994, burning his hands.

“I never intended to hurt my husband,” Teresa Hutcheson said. “If I did anything to hurt him, I’m paying for it. I don’t have a life. Everything I worked hard for is gone.”

She said the real victims are her children. She has tried to shield them and declined to answer questions about them or their future.

“They’re losing the two most important people in their lives at the same time,” she said, referring to herself and Hinson.

Teresa Hutcheson admitted that she did not expect anyone to understand the relationship she had with her grandfather. He “tried to teach me right from wrong,” she said.

“I love my grandfather,” she said, choking back tears. “I do not hate him, and I don’t feel any malice for him. He’s always been an important part of my life.”