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Violet Evelyn Alberts

Violet Evelyn Alberts was found dead in May 2022 at her Santa Barbara home. Investigators said they learned she was a victim of a murder-for-hire plot where the suspects wanted control of her multi-million dollar home. (Santa Barbara County Sheriff)

Cops in Santa Barbara, California, arrested four people in a murder-for-hire plot that took the life of a 96-year-old woman preparing to celebrate her upcoming birthday by baking cookies.

Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown at a press conference Thursday described the case as “tangled, evil web of financial exploitation against the victim,” Violet Evelyn Alberts. Her caregiver called deputies to her upscale Montecito home on May 27, 2022. Deputies found her dead in her bed with ingredients for her birthday cookies on the kitchen table. A window in her home had been shattered, they said. The medical examiner later determined cause of death to be asphyxiation.

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