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Ex-NFL Star’s Beauty Queen Wife Granted Bail After Alleged Murder-for-Hire Plot

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Robert Shiver’s estranged wife Lindsay was released on bail—for the second time.

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Lindsay Shiver was released on bail from prison in the Bahamas on Thursday after being charged with plotting to have her estranged husband, ex-NFL player Robert Shiver, murdered.

The Georgia beauty queen, 38, is expected to return to the United States after posting $100,000 bail.

Shiver was originally granted bail in December 2023, five months after her original arrest.

The judge overseeing the case, Justice Cheryl Grant-Thompson, pulled Shiver’s bail last year after she made an appearance on Good Morning America.

The judge called the television appearance a “blatant disregard for the court’s leniency and indulgence.”

This week, the judge reversed her decision on the condition that Shiver and her rumored lover, Terrance Bethel, 30—who is accused of helping Shiver plot to have her husband killed—maintain a gag order.

Shiver, Bethel, and alleged hitman Faron Newbold Jr., were taken into custody in July 2023 by Bahamian law enforcement. The accused pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Ian Cargill, Shiver’s attorney in the Bahamas, defended his client, arguing that she had not violated her jail conditions when she went on GMA.

The judge said, “It was clearly laid out that if Mrs. Shiver wished to travel or move outside of the designated area, she was first to contact and request the permission of the court.”

The judge also added that her ruling was to keep Shiver “out of harm’s way” because another boyfriend tried to “choke and suffocate her with a pillow in Alabama.”

The Shivers’ divorce paperwork shows that Robert accused Lindsay of having an affair, and Lindsay accused Robert of “physical and mental cruel treatment,” including domestic violence.

Robert and Lindsay both want primary custody of their three children and sole use of their Georgia home, which is worth an estimated $2.5 million.

Lindsay allegedly sent Newbold a WhatsApp message in July 2023 instructing “Kill him” after Robert would not let Lindsay use their private jet to visit Bethel.

Five days later, she and her alleged co-conspirators were arrested in the Bahamas.

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