Three Jailed in Murder-for-Hire Plot

(Akron, Ohio) A 20-year-old local woman, Taylor Marks, has been arrested along with two men stemming from a murder-for-hire plot to kill Marks' mother, Kristie Marks.

Akron police Lt. Rick Edwards says 58-year-old Kristie Marks was stabbed multiple times in the parking lot of an apartment complex on Springdale Street, around 8:00 Saturday night.

Edwards says 19-year-old Troy Purdie is in jail on a charge of aggravated murder, but he says he didn't work alone.

Marks' daughter Taylor can be heard on the frantic 911 call.

"My mom has been stabbed in the parking lot. She was picking me up from my boyfriend's house," Taylor Marks cries to the dispatcher. A moment later, her boyfriend, Brian Smith is heard on the call.

"He pushed her off of this wall thing, he proceeded to stab her. I went to jump down and he tried to cut me and then he ran up the street. I chased him," Smith says.

But Lt. Edwards says it was all a ploy. He says the two orchestrated the entire thing, offering Troy Purdie $5,000 to kill Kristie Marks.

Purdie is in jail charged with aggravated murder. Marks and Smith are also in jail charged with complicity to commit aggravated murder.