Cleveland television station WEWS reported how a hidden camera helped to bring the woman to justice.
Alberta Payton took out an ad in a Cleveland newspaper for a bodyguard, but then attempted to turn him into a hit man by trying to pay him to kill six people. Some of Payton's family members were among those she wanted killed, WEWS reported.Payton was caught through the bodyguard's hidden camera, which taped more than an hour's worth of evidence in which the woman described what she wanted done to the people.The tape also showed Payton saying she wanted the hit man to "take out" a parking lot attendant who gave her a parking ticket at Cleveland State University.Payton was found guilty on four counts of attempted felonious assault.
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