The Dothan Eagle reports on the trial of Steven Michael Capshaw. Capshaw is accused of plotting to have someone kill his wife Sandra Capshaw.

Attorney Kevin Butler, a lawyer with the federal public defender’s office in Montgomery, said the case against his client, Steven Michael Capshaw, is about how sadness and sorrow was manipulated for someone else to make money. Butler outlined his client’s defense Monday afternoon at the federal courthouse in Dothan.

Butler said that specifically meant Capshaw’s niece, Nathina Whitaker, suggested the murder-for-hire scheme to his client as an avenue to make money only shortly after he’d been asked for a divorce from his wife.

This odd case seems to have gotten even stranger.