Couple faces charges in death plot
Macomb County residents were recorded in jailhouse phone calls
If you’re plotting to kill someone, you may not want to talk it through during recorded jail conversations.
That’s exactly what two Macomb County residents are accused of doing, authorities said, with the alleged murder-for-hire plot discovered after an attorney in a divorce case filed a Freedom of Information Act for transcripts of one of the suspect’s calls at the Macomb County Jail.
Aaron Muterspaw, 36, of Warren, and Carmen Marchetti, 35, of Chesterfield Township — who dated in high school — are facing charges in the alleged plot that was brought to the attention of the county Sheriff ’s Office late last year.
How authorities say the plot played out
Muterspaw was locked up on a drunken driving charge from Warren, according to the Prosecutor’s Office. He was communicating by jail phone with Marchetti, with their conversations discussing hurting or killing her soon-tobe ex-husband, the Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
It stated the conversations were discovered when the attorney made a FOIA request for recordings of Muterspaw’s phone calls. The Sheriff ’s Office began investigating when it became aware of the situation in December.
Muterspaw and Marchetti each face one count of conspiracy to commit homicide-solicitation of murder and malicious use of a telecommunications service. Marchetti also faces one count of homicide-solicitation of murder, which, like the conspiracy charge, is a life felony, authorities said.
Muterspaw is being held in the jail on a $500,000 bond. Marchetti was given a $100,000 personal bond. Both have probable cause conferences April 15 after arraignments earlier this week in 41B District Court in Clinton Township.
The Prosecutor’s Office said Muterspaw was in the jail from May 1-Sept. 26, 2023, after pleading guilty in the drunken driving case.
While Muterspaw was in jail, the Prosecutor’s Office stated, Marchetti asked him to have her soon-to-be ex-husband killed. He acknowledged her request and said he would facilitate the murder for her, according to the Prosecutor’s Office release.
Dawn Fraylick, communications director for the Prosecutor’s Office, said the information she has is that Marchetti asked Muterspaw if he knew of someone who wanted work and that she would pay well, the work being apparently to kill her soon-to-be ex-husband.
He said he knew people who could do it for her, Fraylick said, adding that she was not
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