Background: Platte County Circuit Court in Wheatland, Wyo. (Google Maps). Inset: Molly Hamby (Platte County Sheriff”s Office).
In Wyoming, a woman finds herself facing serious allegations after reportedly attempting to enlist a friend to murder her husband during a turbulent period in their marriage.
Molly Hamby, 28, is currently detained at the Platte County Jail, charged with solicitation of first-degree murder and solicitation of forgery. Court records acquired by Cowboy State Daily reveal that Wheatland Police Chief Bradley Otte reported Hamby was engaged in text exchanges with a long-time friend concerning marital difficulties. During these exchanges, Hamby allegedly inquired if the friend could “make someone disappear.”
Authorities noted that earlier this month, Hamby and her husband had separated, prompting her to temporarily leave the family residence. Once they decided to attempt reconciliation, Hamby returned home on March 21, agreeing to let her husband access her phone’s text messages.
What he discovered led him to alert law enforcement.
The court documents detail that, the day before Hamby moved back, she had been communicating with her friend, who works as a private investigator. In these messages, which her husband later read, Hamby is said to have mentioned having a “job” for her friend but insisted on discussing it in person. Subsequent messages reportedly include Hamby asking, “Can you make someone disappear,” to which the friend is alleged to have replied, “I Can yes.”
It is reported that Hamby and her friend arranged a face-to-face meeting at an auto parts store. Following this encounter, Hamby allegedly texted, “[W]e need to get this done today if possible he has threaten[ed] to take kids away from me a few times,” further stating, “He can[‘]t have my kids.”
Hamby’s husband went to the Platte County Sheriff’s Office on March 22 to show authorities the text messages. Police spoke with Hamby’s friend, who reportedly revealed details about the alleged murder for hire. The friend told police that Hamby wanted him to act as a bodyguard. But he soon admitted that during their in-person meeting, they allegedly discussed hurting Hamby’s husband.
Police said Hamby also asked her friend to help her forge her husband’s signature on paperwork for a motorcycle title.
When police spoke with Hamby, she allegedly repeated the claim that she sought out her friend for “help and protection.” Hamby was confronted about the text messages she sent to her friend in which she asked him to make her husband “disappear,” and she reportedly admitted to wanting her husband murdered.
Hamby also allegedly provided her friend with details about where her husband would be on March 20, the day she tried to have him killed, police said. According to court documents, Hamby said she was “extremely mad” at her husband and feared that he would take their three children if they got divorced.
Hamby was arrested after her interview was over and charged with solicitation of first-degree murder. She is currently in custody at the Platte County Jail. Her next court date was not made publicly available.
Hamby’s friend has not been charged, according to Cowboy State Daily.
