Man Convicted in Multi-State Murder-for-Hire Case Involving Former CHP Captain

Jury throws book at Napa hitman who killed CHP captain lover’s husband — despite his kids’ pleas

A Kentucky jury gave no quarter to a Napa Valley man hired by a former California Highway Patrol captain to kill her husband in a twisted murder-for-hire plot – even after the killer’s distraught children begged for mercy.

Napa Valley man convicted after texts reveal how CHP captain and lover lured husband to his death

A Kentucky jury needed just two hours to convict 64-year-old Thomas O’Donnell of killing Michael Harding, the estranged husband of a former California Highway Patrol captain who prosecutors say hired O’Donnell as a hitman while she sat hundreds of miles away in Sacramento. The Friday verdict in a Cumberland County courthouse capped a case built...

Man convicted in multi-state murder-for-hire case involving former CHP captain

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CHP captain hired a hitman to kill her husband; now saga is near an end

The conviction of Thomas O’Donnell, 64, brings to a near-end a multiyear, multistate saga that has left two people dead and one facing life in prison.