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Gunman found guilty in 2015 murder-for-hire plot

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A man who carried out the murder of a pregnant woman in Bastrop at the direction of her unborn baby’s father in 2015 was found guilty last month.A jury returned a guilty verdict for capital murder against Freddie Lee Smith on June 30 after six hours of deliberations, according to a press release from the Texas Attorney General’s office.In 2015, former Austin police officer Vontrey Clark paid $5,000 for Smith to kill Samantha Dean, a former victim services counselor with the Kyle Police Department with whom Clark had had a six-year sporadic relationship. Dean was pregnant with Clark’s child, and ...

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