Woman Charged in Murder Plot Pleads Guilty

(KNSI) — One of three people charged in a murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by the victim’s wife has pled guilty.

Twenty-six-year-old Katrina Marie Hunt pled guilty to aiding and abetting first-degree assault on Thursday.

In August, police responded to a stabbing at a house on the 1000 block of Benedict Drive in Sauk Rapids. They say the victim had been stabbed three times in the chest and once in the neck, back, and the back of his head near the base of his skull. He also had a large gash on his forearm. He was rushed to the hospital for treatment.

According to the criminal complaint, in a sworn statement, Hunt’s husband, Christian David Kane, told investigators that 51-year-old Maria Foster asked him to come to her house and kill her husband because he was abusive. Kane said Foster told him after her husband was dead, he could move into the house with Hunt and a child and have all of her husband’s belongings.

Hunt is facing up to 20 years in prison and a $30,000 fine when she is sentenced on April 7th.

Kane was charged with attempted first-degree murder and first-degree assault. He pled guilty to one count of first-degree attempted murder and will be sentenced on February 24th.

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