![]() Other red flags for investigators were that a year earlier Tom Clayton had doubled his wife’s life insurance policy. Kelley Clayton’s sister said she believes he wanted his freedom. Questions arose as to why Tom Clayton would want to murder his wife. “From what we were able to gather was $10,000 cash.” It was a smoking gun revealing what investigators believed was a sinister murder-for-hire plot.īeard confessed to being hired by Tom Clayton to murder Kelley Clayton,” Lewis said. Phone records showed there were frequent phone calls and texts between them, including the call Tom Clayton made to Beard from the poker game. ![]() ![]() Then, a new person of interest emerged: a man named Michael Beard, a former employee at one of Tom Clayton’s companies who had recently been fired. While looking into Tom Clayton’s alibi, police learned that a woman at the poker game said he asked to borrow her cellphone to make a call just 90 minutes before he got home to find his wife’s body. Despite witnesses seeing Tom Clayton at his friend’s poker game that night, and his GPS placing him there, police took him into custody. One major flag: There were no signs of forced entry or robbery. “There was a lot of things that kind of raised some flags,” Lewis said.
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