Ex-deputy asessed nine years for murder plot

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A jasper county ex-deputy will be doing nine years in prison for conspiring to kill a girlfriend and mother of his child.  Simmons, 29, of Joplin, was convicted of conspiracy to commit second-degree murder at a three-day trial in December. It took the jury about 30 minutes to return with the sentencing recommendation the judge followed on Friday.  The trial featured a recording of a conversation between Simmons and his ex-wife, Misty Simmons, on Oct. 30, 2008, in a cemetery at Carterville during which the couple discussed the murder of Kimberlee LeClaire.  Simmons had been fired as a Jasper County deputy a month before for unstated reasons. He  had left his wife for LeClaire and had a child with her. The prosecution said at the trial that Simmons began having second thoughts and wanted to get back together with his ex while keeping custody of the child he had with LeClaire. This is when the murder idea came into play. The trouble was, his ex was involved romantically with another sheriff’s deputy at the time, had reported his loose talk about killing his baby momma to investigators in the Sheriff’s Department, and their conversation during the late-night  in the cemetery was being recorded without his knowledge.

Umm, hey buddy did you think that since she was your ex that maybe you now had something that wasn't there before?  What a dipsh**!  Now I don't condone this type of behavior, but what the hell is wrong with people.  Telling your ex that your thinking about killing the person you left her for?  Evidently this guy didn't get enough sh** the first time with this gal.  I bet he doesn't go running after her again nine years from now.  Wow!