Woman accused of killing Texas husband also suspected of plotting to murder ex-husband’s new wife, court docs reveal

The Chambers County girl who has been married 5 instances and is accused of killing at the least two of her exes was concerned in a homicide plot in 2021, in keeping with court docket paperwork obtained by KPRC 2 Information.

In accordance with paperwork, Sarah Hartsfield allegedly advised considered one of her ex-husbands he wasn’t allowed again of their house till he carried out a plot to kill the brand new spouse of a distinct ex-husband.

Hartsfield, 48, is at present within the Chambers County Jail accused of murdering her fifth husband, Joseph Hartsfield, who sources stated died of an insulin overdose at a Baytown hospital in January.

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Hartsfield can be underneath investigation in Minnesota as soon as once more, the place she fatally shot her fiancée David Bragg in 2018. Prosecutors initially deemed it self-defense however reopened the investigation days after a Texas grand jury indicted her for the January homicide.

The brand new court docket paperwork obtained by KPRC 2 Information allege that Hartsfield, whose final identify was George on the time, put a success out on her ex-husband Christopher Donohue’s new spouse.

The alleged hit man was her husband on the time, David George, however paperwork state there was concern she’d discover another person to do it if George didn’t.

A submitting for a protecting order towards her claims she wished the girl useless “in order that [Donohue] can be too busy coping with the dying to give attention to combating for [their children] anymore.”

In accordance with a sworn affidavit, when Donohue wrote in asking for the protecting order, George allegedly advised him “he had a pistol that was given to him by Sarah to hold out this act” however that he had been “making an attempt for months to get Sarah to cease pressuring him” and that he’d “misinform her about why it hadn’t occurred but.”

In separate filings weeks later, George denied the alleged plot and known as it a plan to take away two of the Donohue kids from their mom. George additionally wrote that he traveled to Donohue’s house in Arizona from Minnesota.

The plot got here to gentle in March 2021 in Sierra Vista, Arizona. Native police confirmed being concerned within the investigation to KPRC 2 Information.

“On March 19, 2021, an FBI agent contacted a detective with the SVPD and suggested they had been investigating Christopher and Heather Donohue and Christopher’s ex-wife Sarah George. He requested a detailed patrol of Christopher’s residence till that they had a greater understanding of the case. The SVPD carried out shut patrols of the residence as requested,” a division spokesperson wrote in a press release.

The FBI has not supplied info to KPRC 2 Information concerning the investigation.

When investigators spoke to Sarah Hartsfield [George] at her house, “she lied about every thing, and the brokers had been gone,” in keeping with the Donohue affidavit.

Courtroom information present per week after she allegedly spoke to investigators, she filed to divorce David George, the person she wished to hold out the alleged hit.

In accordance with paperwork, Hartsfield misplaced custody of her two youthful kids after the alleged homicide plot got here to gentle. The decide wrote that household violence occurred and was more likely to happen once more.

The decide additionally ordered no contact between Hartsfield and her two youthful kids and Donohue’s new spouse. That order remains to be in impact.

Hartsfield is at present being held on a $5,000,000 bond within the Chambers County Jail on the Texas homicide cost.

“The character of the offender? A lady who’s allegedly engaged in a wide range of felony wrongdoing that you simply’re not more likely to see in your typical run-of-the-mill homicide defendant,” KPRC 2 Authorized Analyst Brian Wice stated. “With regards to the punishment stage of any felony trial in Texas, if in actual fact she’s convicted of homicide, I can virtually guarantee you, that this jury will hear virtually every thing about her life as a result of your life through the punishment stage turns into an open guide.”

Investigators have known as for anybody who knew her or has details about her previous to return ahead for the investigation.

“Sarah Hartsfield maintains her innocence and can help within the investigation of her husband’s premature dying. We adamantly denounce the misinformation that has been supplied to the general public concerning her previous, in addition to any felony involvement at present in Chambers County. We’re engaged within the discovery course of and would remind the general public to withhold any judgment till due course of has been glad,” Hartsfield’s protection legal professional Keaton Kirkwood wrote in a press release to KPRC 2.

Hartsfield is anticipated to be arraigned on March 1, when her protection plans to additionally ask the decide to decrease her bond.

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