A prominent Austin businessman has been indicted in the contract killings of his ex-girlfriend and her former boyfriend, according to federal prosecutors.
According to investigators, the man hired a security specialist and two other men to kill the pair. The ex-boyfriend called the married man to extort him or he would expose the affair.
The price for silence was more than $750,000 for the March 2020 hits, according to the federal indictment.
The Metro Nashville Police Department said on Monday, March 16, 2020, that a fatal car crash has turned into a double homicide investigation.
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The representatives for the group did not have a comment. It is not clear if he is still part of the company. His grandfather started the Central Texas automotive chain.
The attorneys representing Mr. Maund said in a statement Monday that they had spoken to him only briefly. In the coming days and weeks, we will understand more. The entire family supports their son.
According to the indictment, the FBI agents described a family member that Maund traveled frequently to Nashville to see. He wanted to see her in Nashville in February 2020.
He sent her a text from a phone number linked to his company while he was in a hotel. Looking forward to tomorrow. I am in Nashville. I will meet you at the bar again. Text when you get there, according to the indictment.
According to the indictment, Lanway threatened to expose the relationship unless he received a payment. The document didn't say how much money Lanway demanded.
The indictment said that after the text message, Maund "set events in motion to kidnap, threaten and intimate (Williams and Lanway) in reprisal."
The indictment said Speartip Security was specialized in responding to extortion demands. Peled wanted to be a member of the Israeli Defense Forces.
The indictment said that two other men joined the plot, but they didn't say how they were associated with Maund. It was said that they were either hired directly or indirectly.
According to federal investigators, a relative of Brockway worked for a security company and gave Peled a "intelligence report" that day that $15,000 had been withdrawn from his bank account.
According to federal officials, Peled received a document that stated Carey and others would use everything at their disposal to stop the attempted extortion of Maund.
Federal officials said they tracked money flowing from Maund to Peled as payment to Peled, Broadway, and Carey for the kidnapping and murder.
Brockway and Carey confronted Williams and Lanway in the parking lot of their apartment complex and kidnapped them. Landway was shot in the head. Williams was shot in the head.
Prosecutors said that the payments for the contract killings were completed by Maund.
Police in Austin pulled over a man and arrested him for the killings. Peled, Brockway, and Cary were arrested at the airport.
The men were in federal custody. If convicted, face up to life in prison.
The Austin American-Statesman originally reported on the murder-for-hire plot of an ex-girlfriend.
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