Woman caught seeking hit-man to kill estranged husband before next custody hearing

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'A Texas woman was busted plotting to kill the father of her 7-year-old son after she brought the child to meet an undercover cop posing as a hitman and put a down payment on the hit.

Nicolette Beard, 33, was cuffed after she met the undercover officer in a College Station parking lot on Wednesday and gave him $800 of the $4,000 she promised to pay to have her child’s father, Anthony Drymalla, 30, killed, police told the Houston Chronicle.

The two met after a friend of Beard’s alerted cops to the scheme, police said.

Beard brought her son to the meetup, but let a friend bring the boy into a store as she discussed the murder-for-hire plot with the supposed contract killer.
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She told the officer that she wanted it to look like an accident and prefered if Drymalla’s wife were injured or killed in the rubout. But she needed him dead within a couple of days, police said.

“They’re in an ongoing custody battle,” College Station Assistant Chief Brandy Norris told WTLV-TV. “And, according to the person who reported it to us, she wanted something done before they went to court (on Friday).”'