(Mt. Clemens, MI) A Macomb County jury found 25-year-old Mallorie Wilson-Strat of Ferndale, MI, guilty on Friday on all charges for her part in planning out - and beginning to actually participate in - two attempts to murder her boyfriend's wife.
The jury deliberated about three hours at the conclusion of a three-day trial Feb. 9 before Judge John Foster before convicting Wilson-Strat of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, solicitation of murder and helping during a home invasion.
Wilson-Strat’s boyfriend, Kevin Sears - who was separated from his wife - was himself never charged with planning his wife’s murder, as he was apparently completely unaware his girlfriend was planning to murder his wife, Jessica Sears, 32, of Armada. The plan was not actually carried out; prosecutors contended, however, that the defendant planned it for over two months and paid others to perform the murder.
She was waiting in a “getaway” car during the would-be hit on March 23, 2011, while two of her co-defendants went into the woman’s home in Armada.
The two men changed their minds and ran out of the house.
According to the transcript of the trial, she waited 45 minutes while the men were inside and were planning to kill Mrs. Sears, which gave Wilson-Strat enough time to “think about it and change her mind,” said police.
She faces 15 years to life in prison at her sentencing, which is scheduled for March 7th.
Wilson-Strat is among five people charged in the plot to kill Jessica Sears. She was the first to go to Trial.
Wilson-Strat had no history of serious trouble with the law and was supported during the trial by more than a dozen family members and relatives, including her mother, Mary Strat, who testified in her daughter's defense.
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