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A woman has been extradited from the Pacific to face the Australian criminal justice system over accusations she repeatedly tried murder her ex-husband.
Academic and mother-of-two Lisa Lines, 43, was arrested by Palau law enforcement last week and charged with two counts of attempted murder and two counts of conspiracy to murder.

Lines was extradited to Brisbane, where she will face court with South Australian detectives applying for her extradition to Adelaide.

Lisa Lines.
Lisa Lines arriving on Australian soil. (9News)
Zacharia Bruckner.
Zacharia Bruckner arriving in Adelaide from Brisbane. (9News)

Meanwhile, her former lover Zacharia Bruckner, 30, was also arrested by Queensland Police last week and was charged with conspiracy to murder-related offences.

He didn’t apply for bail and will remain behind bars while legal proceedings continue.

Bruckner will return to court in May.

Lisa Lines.
Lines was arrested in Palau last week. (9News)
Zacharia Bruckner.
Bruckner was arrested in Brisbane last week and extradited to Adelaide. (9News)

Lines and Bruckner are accused of plotting to murder her ex-husband Jonathan Hawtin at least three times.

In 2017, Hawtin was seriously injured and left a tetraplegic after he was allegedly attacked with an axe.

In the same incident, Bruckner suffered a gunshot wound to the abdomen, which police now allege was self-inflicted to stage a self-defence case.

Hawtin was charged with attempted murder but acquitted at trial.

Jonathan Hawtin.
Jonathan Hawtin. (9News)
Crime scene at Adelaide home in 2017 after axe attack.
The crime scene at the Adelaide Hills home in 2017 after the alleged axe attack and shooting. (9News)

It is also alleged Lines and Bruckner as recently as 2023 plotted to hire a contract killer to silence Hawtin and his mother.

Lines is also accused of sending a female lover to suffocate Hawtin while he was in a rehabilitation centre after the 2017 axe incident.

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