A woman who helped orchestrate the murders of her in-laws has been sentenced to 10 years of probation - as victims slam the district attorney who helped her avoid prison.
Jaclyn Edison was accused of conspiring with her husband Nicolas Shaughnessy to hire a hitman to kill his parents, Ted and Corey Shaughnessy, who owned Gallerie Jewelers in Central Austin.
Wife of slain Austin jeweler Ted Shaughnessy voices grief, betrayal as hitman sentenced
The wife of slain Austin jeweler Ted Shaughnessy conveyed her despair, grief and sense of betrayal Wednesday immediately after one of the hitmen who killed her husband and who was hired by her son pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
The plea deal for Johnny Leon III, 24, was negotiated on the heels of two other identical agreed-upon punishments in the case. The son, 22-year-old Nicolas Shaughnessy, and another hired hitman, 23-year-old Arieon Smith, pleaded guilty to murder last week and were also sentenced to 35 years each.