DA: 'Hit list' shows inmate sought to kill 9 witnesses, suggesting methods and order of slayings
Already facing a 50-count indictment, a jailed defendant in a California insurance fraud prosecution is now facing 10 new charges concerning nine witnesses he is accused of targeting for murder in the Contra Costa County case.
District Attorney Mark Peterson said a witness “hit list” found by investigators not only lists the nine witnesses allegedly targeted by Charles Waldo, 37, but specifies the order in which they were to be killed and the methods by which they were to be slain, the Bay Area News Group and KTVU report.
The methods included fatal drug overdoses and staged car accidents, as well as slayings during robberies “gone bad,” the DA said.
Waldo now faces nine new counts of solicitation to commit murder, plus a murder conspiracy count, after his Wednesday indictment.
The articles don’t include any comment from the defendant or his legal counsel.
