Report: Jury Hears Tape of Woman Urging Man to Murder Her Ex-Husband

Eric Stevens of Simsbury, the man who would have been killed if, as prosecutors allege, his ex-wife had been successful in finding someone to murder him, testified at her trial Wednesday, saying he learned of her plotting when he listened to a tape recording of her.

According to a report in the Hartford Courant, the tape recording was played for him on July 6, 2012 by John McDaid, the man Tiffany Stevens of Bloomfield was trying to hire to murder him, that man (John McDaid of Simsbury) had testified on Tuesday.

“Get it done — I paid you up front,” Tiffany Stevens says in the recording played for the jury at her trial. She then said that if she loses custody of her child (which would have meant losing control of the girl’s $50 million trust fund, which was to go to whoever had custody of the daughter, now 9 years old) — she’d kill McDaid:

“And I’ll [expletive] kill you if I lose my daughter,” she said in the tape, according to the Courant.

For more details of Day 2 of the trial, see the article in the Hartford Courant.