PEKIN, Ill. (WMBD) — A Pekin woman will spend the next 16 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections in connection to a murder-for-hire plot.
Allison L. Salinas, 48, was sentenced after she pleaded guilty to one count of solicitation for murder after she asked a man from Dallas, Texas to kill her husband, according to Tazewell County Court Documents.
She will receive credit for the 10 days she has already spent in jail, the documents said. Before the plea, she faced between 20 and 40 years behind bars for the count.
At her detention hearing last month, Tazewell County Circuit Judge Chris Doscotch granted her pre-trial release under the condition she remains under home confinement and have no contact with her husband.
During that hearing her husband, said he felt safe enough for her to return home with him but Doscotch shot that down saying she must find a “third-party custodian” to stay with.
“I don’t send a person back to live with their abuser,” Doscotch said. “She sent a picture of him to the guy and said take care of it.”
Details of the scheme
The Texas man and Salinas had dated briefly as kids and, back in 2021, began a long-distance relationship. The man initially had doubts about her motives, telling police earlier this month that “he felt that during the relationship, Allison began to attempt to manipulate him after learning about an inheritance he had received.”
The man told police she motioned to leaving her husband so they could split the marital assets. In December 2023, she began the talk of having her husband killed, according to the probable because statement filed in court.
“(The Texas man) initially tried to deflect the conversation because Allison had insinuated her desire for him to kill her husband so that they could be together,” the statement said. “He made it known to Allison that he would not harm her husband, at which point Allison started discussing the idea of finding someone else to murder her husband.”
He reported those talks to police, but when he heard nothing back, he began to record their phone calls. The topic went on for months, much to the chagrin of the Texas man. At one point, he told her that the U.S. Secret Service was involved, having heard about the plot — which wasn’t true, according to court records.
But even as late as mid-June, she was still asking if he could find someone to kill her husband, the statement said.
Phone calls provided to Pekin police detail how Salinas mused about how to kill her husband and, at one point, told the Texas man, “I need you to make this happen.”
A friend of Salinas told Pekin police she had heard some of the conversations and how her friend wanted to hire a “ghost” or a hitman to kill her husband.
“On another occasion, Allison discussed killing her husband by sneaking shellfish into his food, which he is allergic to,” according to the probable cause statement.
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