The accused confederate and rumored lover of a Georgia magnificence queen claimed Thursday that he’s harmless and “no one wished” her then-estranged husband useless within the alleged murder-for-hire plot within the Bahamas.
Lindsay Shiver‘s ex-boyfriend Terrance “Adrien” Bethel was arrested alongside the mother of three and alleged hitman Faron “Faylo” Newbold in July 2023, when the trio was accused of making an attempt to kill former Auburn soccer captain Robert Shiver.
The plot was foiled when native police unearthed texts that detailed the deliberate hit throughout an unrelated investigation of a break-in on the waterfront bar the place Bethel labored.
Lindsay Shiver allegedly despatched a photograph of her husband with one other girl by way of a sequence of messages within the messaging service WhatsApp to Bethel and Newbold accompanied by the textual content “Kill him.”
“She sends the image that was simply despatched to her,” Bethel informed Good Morning America. “When she came upon he was there and the children had been dwelling, that’s when she’s like ‘kill him.’”
Bethel defended his former lover’s questionable message claiming she wished to know if Robert Shiver left their children unsupervised at their Caribbean island dwelling.
“No person ever wished him useless,” he insisted.
The Bahamian barman claimed his innocence to the outlet as Lindsay Shiver returned to Nassau for a pre-trial courtroom listening to on Oct. 5.
“I’m undoubtedly not responsible of conspiracy to commit homicide,” Bethel mentioned. “And Faylo is just not responsible of being a employed hitman.
“It’s time to let the world know that we’re harmless.”
Lindsay Shiver admitted to investigators that she despatched irritating messages after combating together with her husband, whom she married in 2010.
Bethel had downplayed the texts saying “Everyone says issues out of frustration” and other people take issues at “face worth.”
“None of us have something to cover,” he informed the Each day Mail final August.
“At any time when she will get into an argument with him, she tells me about it. In fact, I’m furious about it, however planning to homicide him? No,” Bethel mentioned laughing on the notion he’s an tried killer.
Shiver “lived a double life” when she steadily traveled to the island of Abaco, the place the household has a second dwelling, and started an affair with Bethel, sources informed The Submit final August.
“She lived a double life — this Georgia housewife with the stunning children and the Bahamas unhealthy woman. She bought caught up in one thing actually unhealthy. It’s unhappy,” the supply mentioned.
Earlier than the collapse of their marriage, the Shivers cut up their time between a multimillion-dollar Thomasville, Georgia mansion and a luxurious unfold within the unique Bahamian enclave of Baker’s Bay.
The couple met whereas Robert Shiver was the Auburn College soccer staff captain in 2007.
The barman mentioned his romance with Shiver was recognized they usually vented to one another steadily.
“Us loving one another was not a secret. She’s my greatest good friend nonetheless, we proceed to care about one another it doesn’t matter what which additionally makes it onerous going by way of this case,” Bethel mentioned.
Shiver, who pleaded not responsible to her fees, has been staying together with her mother and father in Alabama awaiting her March trial, and a Georgia choose granted her permission to journey to the Peach State to go to her children.
Robert Shiver started courting Savannah Chrisley in Sept. 2023 — two months after surviving the alleged murder-for-hire hit.
The Auburn star went undrafted within the 2009 NFL draft however signed as a free agent with the Atlanta Falcons after school. He later turned govt vice chairman for Senior Life Insurance coverage Firm.