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Lindsay Shiver, a Georgia mother of three and former pageant queen has been arrested in the Bahamas for allegedly plotting to kill her estranged husband, a former Auburn University football player, according to reports.
Shiver, 36, was caught when Bahamian police stumbled on her alleged scheme to murder hubby Robert Shiver, 38, while they were investigating a different case, Bahamas Court News reported.
Two men, Terrance Bethel, 28 — identified by the outlet as Lindsay Shiver’s lover — and Faron Newbold, were also arrested in the alleged hit scheme.
Local police unearthed texts that detailed the plot while they searched the phone of a suspected burglar at Grabber’s Bar and Grill in Great Guana Cay in the Bahamas earlier this month.
It wasn’t immediately known whether Shiver, Bethel or Newbold owned the phone.
Robert and Lindsay Shiver own a house in the Bahamas, near where she met her alleged lover Bethel, a source familiar with the case told the Thomasville Times-Enterprise.
Robert Shiver, who was a snapper for the Auburn Tigers from 2006 to 2008, had filed for divorce when he learned his wife was involved in a romantic relationship with Bethel, the outlet added.
Lindsay Shiver — who was named Miss Houston County in 2005 and finished second in the National Peanut Festival pageant that year — according to the outlet allegedly paid a would-be hitman to carry out the murder after her husband filed for the split, according to WTVY.
After their arrest, Lindsay Shiver, Bethel and Newbold were transported from Guana to the Caribbean country’s capital, Nassau.
They appeared in court Friday but were not required to enter a plea, the outlet said.
The trio is due back in court Oct. 5.
Lindsay Shiver’s Instagram account revealed that the couple met during a fitness class at Auburn University in 2007.
“So thankful for that fitness class 13 years ago that brought us together and all of the love, laughter, and life we have created ever since! I love you babe. Cheers to many more,” Lindsay Shiver wrote in the caption of a 2020 post with an array of photos — one of which featured them on their wedding day.
After his career with Auburn University, Robert Shiver signed with the Atlanta Falcons as a free agent but was cut before the start of the 2009 season.
He is listed as the executive vice president of Senior Life Insurance Company in Thomasville, Ga.