Article dated 07/30/10
Caddo sheriff's detectives now believe Sunday's slaying in Keithville was orchestrated by the victim's wife who is alleged to have hired a hitman through a family friend.
Bobbie Loretta Luttrell, wife of 50 years to Ernest Lutrell, was arrested Thursday for first-degree murder, following her husband's funeral. Detectives said she'd been in Arkansas with family since the killing.
Caddo Parish Sheriff Steve Prator said detectives discovered over the course of a four-day investigation Luttrell plotted with family friend and housekeeper Tina VanMoerkerque, arrested Wednesday, to kill her husband.
Luttrell asked VanMoerkerque to find a hitman to kill her husband and said she'd pay that person $1,000. VanMoerkerque found Erick Crain, who was arrested Tuesday, and he accepted the contract, according to Cindy Chadwick, Caddo sheriff's office spokesperson. Chadwick said Luttrell and VanMoerkerque planned Sunday's murder and robbery together.
Prator said the murder was pre-planned and financially motivated, but said the details of the motivation would come out during trial.
"It's something like a Lifetime movie would be about," Prator said.
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