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Kim Williams is charged with three counts of capital murder
in the 2013 shooting deaths of Kaufman County District Attorney
Mike McLelland, his wife, Cynthia McLelland, and Mark Hasse, an
assistant district attorney. A jury earlier this month convicted
her husband, Eric Williams, of killing Cynthia McLelland and
sentenced him to death. He is also charged with murdering the
two prosecutors.
Eric Williams, 47, was a former justice of the peace in Kaufman
County, about 30 minutes southeast of Dallas, and committed the
murders in revenge for being prosecuted on theft charges,
according to testimony presented at his trial.
Kim Williams testified against her estranged husband during the
penalty phase of the trial, detailing how he planned to carry
out the murders. She told jurors she was guilty of the murders
because she accompanied her husband but that he pulled the
trigger.
Bill Wirskye, the lead special prosecutor in the case, said on
Sunday that Kim Williams is scheduled to enter a guilty plea to
murder at 9 a.m. on Tuesday in Kaufman County.
"We've reached a tentative agreement between the parties,”
Wirskye said. He would not discuss the terms of the plea or
whether it would apply to all three murders or just one. "It's
not final yet," he said.
Paul Johnson, attorney for Kim Williams, did not immediately
return a call for comment on Sunday.
Hasse was fatally shot outside the Kaufman County Courthouse on
Jan. 31, 2013. The McLellands were killed in their home on March
30, 2013.
(Reporting by Kevin Murphy in Kansas City, Mo; editing by
Jonathan Allen, Eric Walsh and Matthew Lewis)
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