CIRCLEVILLE — Tara Lambert pulled her Lexus into the Kentucky Fried Chicken parking lot, where she met a man and gave him $125 as a down payment for what authorities say was going to be murder.
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Lambert’s target was Kellie Cooke, the mother of her two stepdaughters. The conversation with the man she thought was a hired gun – who was really an undercover detective with the sheriff’s office – was captured on video.
And it was played for the jury Monday in Pickaway County Common Pleas Court, where Lambert, a 33-year-old model from Circleville, is on trial for two counts of conspiracy to commit aggravated murder.
The second charge comes because, at one point, the undercover detective asked Lambert what he should do if Cooke’s husband was home when he took care of what she had suggested should be made to look like a home-invasion gone wrong.
“He can go, too,” Lambert said on the tape.