Inmate, mom plotted to kill witness

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Police say a woman and her adult son are behind bars for allegedly plotting kill a woman who accused him of rape.  Police say the plan was put together at the Monroe County Jail.

Jason Bridgewater is already locked up and awaiting trial on a rape charge. His mother, Linda Litrell was on the outside.  Police say they tried to hire another inmate to kill the victim before the August trial began.

"He was due to get out anyhow, so we didn't make any deals with him or anything like that.  He wanted to help, and was something that he found reprehensible as well." Detective Brad Swain said.

Police say the payment was to be in the form of prescription drugs that he could sell. The method of killing that Litrell and Bridgewater allegedly requested involved drugs as well. "A lethal amount of Oxycontin to be crushed into liquid form and he would approach her in a public place and by surprise inject her with a lethal dose."Swain added.

After weeks of surveillance police arrested Litrell at her Bloomington home. We visited the house where her father also lives. "Any adult should know that when somebody is in jail, you're not going to go visit them without them hearing every word your saying." Sondley Litrell said.

Sondley Litrell, he goes by Sunny, says he didn't have much to say about it. He stands by his daughter and grandson, and says he has no opinion on whether they're guilty or not.

"I just figured her son sold her on the idea that he wasn't guilty or whatever it was and she went gunho." Litrell added.
If convicted they could spend up to 50 years behind bars.