Woman Convicted in Plot to Kidnap Investigator
A jury has convicted a businesswoman of plotting the kidnapping of a private investigator, but was unable to reach a verdict on whether she also had him killed.
The partial verdict followed a trial in federal court that included testimony from a woman convicted of spying for the Soviet Union in the 1980s and gruesome allegations that the private investigator was tortured in Tijuana.
Jurors said a majority voted to convict Kimberly Bailey on a federal charge of conspiracy to murder in a foreign country, but that several members of the panel were unsure because authorities never found the body of private investigator Richard Post, who disappeared in 1998.
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