Latham, also a state lottery official, told the judge the plot to kill her stemmed from her pending divorce from Chris Latham, a Bank of America executive. and Yenawine told him 'Well, it will make it look better so go ahead and kill them too,'" said Nathan Williams. Offers may be subject to change without notice. LATHAM's FATE in court's hands Ex-banker pleads not guilty in plot to kill wife, who says ordeal has been 'heartbreaking' for family, Law enforcement witnesses in Alex Murdaugh's double murder trial continue testifying, With jury selection complete, Alex Murdaugh's murder trial officially begins, The Berkeley Independent - Moncks Corner, SC, Live: Jurors in Alex Murdaugh's murder trial travel to Moselle, site of the slayings, Charleston moves to create new board to help homeowners restore dilapidated houses, Alex Murdaugh's prosecutors push back on 2-shooter theory in final day of testimony, International African American Museum sets new opening date. The would-be killers bought disposable cellphones so their communications couldn't be traced, then traveled to the Lowcountry, where they met with Moore to collect a $5,000 down payment and receive a hit package full of photographs, maps, schedules and other information on Nancy Latham and her family, Boykin said. Warner Bros. Entertainment | Paul Murdaugh had been calling and texting his friend on the evening of June 7, 2021, when suddenly the youngest of Alex Murdaughs sons stopped responding. In contrast, Chris was only convicted on the single count of use of interstate facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire. In a previous Inquisitr article about Nancy Latham, their marriage was described as one that should have lasted a lifetime. She credits him for saving her life before Chris Latham could carry out his sinister plan. Chris Latham was also convicted, and was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. 2023 Telepictures Productions Inc. "It's not by any means celebratory. After Yenawine was arrested in April of 2013, Tudor and Yenawine became cellmates and friends in jail. Published: 16:28, 12 August 2013 | Updated: 19:09, 12 August 2013. Jeff Allred officiating and Peck Funeral Home directing. 804(b)(3). Nancy Latham suspected that her husband was having an affair, and she was correct. Moore is incarcerated in Charleston County. I have looked forward to truth being known, she said. Nancy denied her better half's charges nearly when he made them before that year and kept up with that position all through the contentious official procedures too. at 35 (emphasis in original). With all four individuals subsequently apprehended, the officials unveiled that Chris had offered his accomplices $5,000 as a down payment, promising another $20,000 after the job. Moore and Latham's suggestion that the admission of Yenawine's statements implicated the Sixth Amendment is likewise without merit. That ex-husband was none other than Sam Yenawine, one of the hired hit men. Charged in the plot were 38-year-old Samuel Yenawine of Louisville, Ky.; Yenawine's ex-wife, 37-year-old Wendy Annette Moore, identified as Chris Latham's girlfriend and former assistant at Bank of America; Yenawine's girlfriend, Rachel Palmer, 36, and Russell Wilkinson, 39, both of Louisville. Powered by WordPress.com VIP. https://www.facebook.com/wavytv10/photos/a.106225392035.96583.46472432035/10152325008092036/?type=3. But we are trying hard to collect all the information about him and will update you soon. 1. Nancy Latham is on Facebook. Wilkinson told authorities he and Yenawine met up with Moore in North Charleston and on Sullivans Island, and his story is supported by satellite phone tracking that placed all three together at those times, Boykin said. But Marchant sided with Latham and federal prosecutors, opting to keep him behind bars until trial. This time, however, Chris Latham's outfit was augmented by shackles and chains. Moore is accused of hiring Yenawine to do the job, and he, in turn, contracted Wilkinson's services to watch his back, Senior Agent Joseph Boykin of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has testified. Chris Latham, formerly a high-powered executive with a $683,000 annual salary, has previously denied any involvement in the case. Speculation about Chris Latham's involvement in the alleged plot had swirled around the community since the case broke open in April with the arrest of three suspects, one of whom happened to be his live-in girlfriend and former bank assistant. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Charleston, SC 29403, News tips/online questions: newstips@postandcourier.com, Delivery/subscription questions: subserve@postandcourier.com, var html = new Date().getFullYear(); His stripper girlfriend wasn't saying a thing. They soon obtain recordings of jail house phone calls between the blonde bombshell and Chris Latham. Oh, hello. "The worst-case scenario would have been they came to my room, shot me, woke up Madison and I wouldn't have died immediately and there would have been nothing I could do and I would have listened to them kill my daughter, and that's the one thing I cannot stop thinking about is how horrific that would be.". 'It's not by any means celebratory,' a somber Mrs Latham told the station WCNC. Of particular importance here, when a constructive amendment claim rests on allegedly erroneous jury instructions, a reviewing court is to consider the totality of the circumstancesincluding not only the instructions and the indictment but also the arguments of the parties and the evidence presented at trialto determine whether a jury could have reasonably interpreted the challenged instructions as license to convict on an unindicted charge. They had 5 daughters: Mary Elizabeth Latham, Susan Latham and 3 other children. All rights reserved. They try every day to find something to be grateful and joyful about and they listen to people talk about life returning to normal one day. Cannon said that the trial had been a trying ordeal for both she and her daughters. He will remain in custody at least until Monday, when a formal detention hearing will be held. When her husband walked into the room Wednesday in a blue fishing T-shirt and faded jeans, it reminded Nancy Latham of the casual wear he favored during a family vacation to a lake house a couple of years back. He answered only yes or no to a magistrate judge's questions. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. Left to die alone like an animal: Parents who left 23-stone disabled daughter to die in her own filth are Holiday home owners in Scotland face new SNP tax hike under plans from front-runner to be new First Scotland should just self-identify as an independent country, one SNP member proposed. ", "The actual picture of myself and Madison is the one that brought me to tears every time I saw it," Cannon said. Moore, Wilkinson and Palmer pleaded not guilty in May. All rights reserved. Moreover, the record reflects that the district court required the government to correct any misperceptions engendered by its evidence relating to Yenawine's past and the money laundering comment. J.A. The Sixth Amendment adds nothing to the appellants' claim, and we find no error in the admission of Yenawine's out-of-court statements. It began, cops would tell Nancy, not long before, when a man named Aaron Wilkinson was pulled over by police for a simple traffic violation. 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Once Aaron Wilkinson directed them to an envelope that contained sensitive information about Nancy Latham, they were sure they had just intercepted something terribly evil. Brought down, some say, by a pair of heels. After arriving in Charleston, Yenawine purchased a pay-as-you-go cell phone and Wilkinson heard him use it to speak to a woman. The mothers name is Not Available. A jury convicted Wendy Annette Moore and Christopher Austin Latham of participating in a murder-for-hire plot targeting Latham's estranged wife. According to the estranged wife, her husband would have benefited greatly from her death. United States v. Whitfield, 695 F.3d 288, 309 (4th Cir.2012). Cops are stumped, until they ask Nancy herself, and she lets them in on a little secret. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. Wilkinson revealed to the police that he and his former prison cellmate, Samuel Yenawine, were involved in a murder-for-hire plot targeting Nancy Latham. Chris Latham Prominent banker in Charleston, South Carolina. Id. Nancy Latham and her daughters kept a low profile after police alerted them about the alleged plot. Police found a gun in his car, and he volunteered information about the scheme to kill Nancy Latham to officers, police said. Nancy and her daughters are rushed to a safe house, but the mother of two is on pins and needles. It thus seemed like their divorce was going to be finalized for good relatively quickly, only for her respite to change once local deputies knocked on her door in early April 2013. Police say Wilkinson had a gun and bullets in the car. Yenawine was back in Kentucky at that point and was arrested later. In addition, she was supported by the way that he had a live-in sweetheart, 37-year-old Wendy Moore, a previous colorful artist turned his own colleague. Grinning and bearing it? Nancy Lathams Attempted Murder As somebody who must be depicted as a wealthy socialite, Nancy Latham was apparently at a decent spot in her life in Charleston, South Carolina, in spring 2013. Read moreLaw enforcement witnesses in Alex Murdaugh's double murder trial continue testifying, Alex Murdaugh looked clean from head to toe in his first interview with investigators just hours after his wife and son were brutally shot to death, according to testimony prosecutors elicited on the third day of Murdaughs double murder trial. Nancy Latham said a photograph and information on her shopping habits found in a hit package provided to the contract killers could only have come from one source because no one else would have that information.. We are transported to Charleston, South Carolina and into the lives of wealthy couple Chris and Nancy Latham who are described as: " the very picture of a perfect couple in the land of Spanish moss and sweet magnolias."(Source here). 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Nancy wouldnt have known what hit her if it werent for a routine traffic stop. Prosecutors say Chris Latham gave his accomplices a $5,000 down payment and package that included photos of his wife and her schedule. Nancy K Latham Disability is an emerging global issue, as reflected by the first joint World Health Organization (WHO)-World Bank Report on Disability, Rehabilitation, and Inclusion, scheduled . Once they found Nancy and her daughters, there was no time to waste. 1958(a) enumerates two distinct and alternative jurisdictional elements, or links to interstate commerce. Moore and Latham's first contention is that their Fifth Amendment right to indictment by a grand jury was violated when the district court, through its instructions to the jury, constructively amended Counts One and Three of the indictment against them. Chris Latham, 50, pleaded not guilty to conspiracy charges in federal court Wednesday, one day after he was arrested while on vacation in Salem, S.C. Nancy Latham says she's relieved her husband is in jail, but the entire ordeal has been draining on the family. Investigators later learned that appellants Christopher Latham and Wendy Moore also were involved in the plot. And in its closing argument, the government made clear that it was relying on the travel prong: [W]hat the law requires is travel in interstate commerce, and the judge will tell you driving from Kentucky down to South Carolina covers your interstate commerce. "We essentially were in hiding for close to two months and even trying to get our lives back is incredibly hard," she said. She says out of all the evidence presented, a picture of her and her daughter contained in the hit package, struck her the hardest. Nancy Latham denies her husband's accusations and says she's confident prosecutors have a strong case against him. And they said Do you know of anyone that would want to kill you?". Join Facebook to connect with Nancy Latham and others you may know. How do you reconcile the idea that this person hired someone to kill you?. Moore and Latham have not established that any of the testimony to which they object was admitted in error, let alone plain error. Indeed, some of the testimony was elicited by the appellants themselves, through counsel. Nancy was a member of Our Lady of Good Hope Catholic Church, Fort Wayne. She said her husband has even more reason to wish her harm now that the plot has been exposed. Then again, as far as it matters for them in the homicide for-enlist intrigue against Nancy Latham, in August 2014, Christopher Chris Austin Latham and Wendy Annette Moore were condemned to 10 and 15 years in government jail, individually. Viewed in the light most favorable to the government, see United States v. Lentz, 524 F.3d 501, 507 (4th Cir.2008), the evidence at trial established the following. Prosecutors say that Samuel Yenawine, also known as Sammy, planned to kill Nancy Latham for Wendy Moore and Chris Latham. But Nancy says behind their picture-perfect family was a dark secret. Investigators also uncovered independent evidenceincluding cell phone tower evidence and bank recordsthat further corroborated Wilkinson's story. "[It's] kind of a family tradition for us to do on our birthdays. "They were all caught up and passionate about each other.". Wilkinson tells the feds he's got to check in soon or he'll be in big trouble -- Yenawine will suspect something is up. Count One of the indictment alleged that Moore and Latham did knowingly conspire, confederate, agree and have a tacit understanding with each other and with others to travel in, and cause another to travel in, interstate commerce, with the intent that a murder be committed for compensation. "I called the ATF agents and said this is where he is," said Nancy. "It's not by any means celebratory. As she has done in a civil lawsuit against her estranged husband, she accused him of being involved in the plot to kill her. 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