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Detective: Video shows murder-for-hire discussion
by Holbrook Mohr/The Associated Pres
May 16, 2012 | 3133 views | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend | print
This April 29, 2012 photo provided by the Greenwood, Miss., Police Department shows Dr. Arnold Smith, 70, of Greenwood. Smith and William Paul Muller, 54, of Morgan City are charged with conspiracy to commit murder and being held without bond at the Leflore County Jail for their alleged roles in a plot to kill Greenwood attorney Lee Abraham. (AP Photo/Greenwood Police Department)
This April 29, 2012 photo provided by the Greenwood, Miss., Police Department shows Dr. Arnold Smith, 70, of Greenwood. Smith and William Paul Muller, 54, of Morgan City are charged with conspiracy to commit murder and being held without bond at the Leflore County Jail for their alleged roles in a plot to kill Greenwood attorney Lee Abraham. (AP Photo/Greenwood Police Department)
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GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi police detective has testified that a video shows an oncologist and an alleged hit man discussing a plot to kill the divorce lawyer who represented the doctor's ex-wife.

The video was shown Wednesday in Leflore County Court in Greenwood during a preliminary hearing for 70-year-old Dr. Ralph Arnold Smith Jr.

The doctor is charged with conspiring to kill attorney Lee Abraham. Authorities say the plot led to a shootout on April 28 in Abraham's office in Greenwood.

Abraham was not killed.

Greenwood police detective Jeff Byars said Smith kept a hidden camera in his own office. Byars testified it shows Smith telling an alleged hit man that he wanted a photo showing Abraham dead.
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