Sterling Man Pleads Guilty in Murder-for-Hire Plot: Media Reports

Image: Dallas Walton Brumback Jr. (Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office)

A Sterling man pleaded guilty last week to attempted first-­degree murder and other charges in a failed plot to kill his ex-wife, according to media reports.

Dallas Walton Brumback Jr., 36, faces up to 50 years in prison when he’s sentenced, the Washington Post reported Monday. The hearing is scheduled for Nov. 23.

Prosecutors said that last year, Brumback offered to pay $5,000 to have his ex-­wife killed, not knowing he was making the offer to an undercover police officer, the Post reported.

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Brumback also pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder, four counts of child abuse and neglect, and two counts of distribution of a controlled substance as an accommodation, Leesburg Today reported. He’s being held without bond at the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center.

In a January bond hearing in the Loudoun County Circuit Court, prosecutors presented evidence that Brumback and his wife Kimberly had been involved with the Ku Klux Klan. But Kimberly Brumback testified that the KKK branch in which they had been involved was defunct.