Nashville Couple’s Murder-for-Hire Plot Exposed in 20/20 Episode
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A Discovery That Sparked a Three-Year Investigation
On March 13, 2020, Nashville police received a 911 call from a construction worker who saw a white Acura crashed into a tree. Inside, they found the bodies of Holly Williams, 33, and Bill Lanway, 36. Both had been shot multiple times. “This was like a scene out of a movie,” recalled Metro Nashville PD Detective Patrick Cuthbertson, one of the investigators on the case (ABC News). The three-year investigation uncovered layers of deceit that reached far beyond Tennessee, eventually exposing a murder-for-hire conspiracy orchestrated by a wealthy Texas businessman.Erik Charles Maund: The Mastermind Behind the Plot
According to federal prosecutors, the killings were ordered by Erik Charles Maund, a wealthy Texas auto dealer and heir to a family car dealership empire. Maund allegedly rekindled an affair with Williams while visiting Nashville. When her estranged boyfriend, Lanway, learned of the affair, he threatened to expose it. Rather than risk public embarrassment, prosecutors say Maund paid more than $750,000 to silence the threat. His “solution” was hiring Gilad Peled, an Austin businessman who marketed himself as an expert in “extortion response.”From Surveillance to Execution
Peled brought in two ex-Marines, Bryon Brockway and Adam Carey, to track Williams and Lanway. They compiled battlefield-style reports on the couple’s movements and ultimately staged a deadly confrontation.- On March 12, 2020, Lanway was shot multiple times outside Williams’s apartment complex.
- Williams was kidnapped, driven to a construction site, and killed.
- The couple’s bodies were later discovered in the crashed Acura on the outskirts of Nashville.
Financial Trail of a Murder-for-Hire Scheme
The day of the murders, Maund wired Peled $150,000, with nearly $1 million more transferred over the following year. Prosecutors argued these payments were the financial backbone of the murder-for-hire operation designed to protect Maund’s reputation at the cost of two lives.Arrests, Trial, and Convictions
After a joint investigation by the FBI, Metro Nashville Police, and federal prosecutors, Maund, Peled, Brockway, and Carey were indicted.- Peled accepted a plea deal and testified for the prosecution.
- Maund, Brockway, and Carey were convicted of murder-for-hire with death resulting, kidnapping, and conspiracy.
- Each faces a mandatory life sentence.
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