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Stephanie Russell appears in a booking photo; inset on the left and right are two text messages about a death spell

Main image: Stephanie Russell (Oldham County Detention Center); inset left and right: two text messages about obtaining a death spell for her ex-husband (defense filing).

The murder-for-hire prosecution of a previously well-liked Kentucky pediatrician whose former medical office boasted a “Disney theme throughout” has grown decidedly weirder in recent weeks.

In late February, defense counsel for Dr. Stephanie M. Russell, 53, filed a series of WhatsApp text messages on the federal docket that show she attempted to enlist the services of several would-be occult practitioners to kill her ex-husband with a “death spell.”

Russell faces one count of using interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire after she allegedly agreed to pay $7,000 to an undercover FBI agent to kill Rick Crabtree, her former spouse, after he was awarded sole custody of their two children.

Prosecutors allege she paid half on retainer to the fake assassin before she was arrested in May 2022. But, according to the defense, her first stop, several months prior, was the world of the supernatural.

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