Woman Admits Killing Husband In Love Triangle

ROME, Ga.,None — A woman admitted in court that she plotted with a youth minister from her church, with whom she was having an affair, to murder her husband.

Michelle Sullins Reynolds pleaded guilty Wednesday to voluntary manslaughter in the death of her husband, Thad John Reynolds. Officials said Michelle Reynolds plotted with her lover to kill her husband at his workplace.

She was sentenced to a total of 20 years, minus the five years she's already served in jail.

A youth minister from the couple's church, Scott Harper, pleaded guilty in 2008 to stabbing church deacon Thad Reynolds to death in 2004. Harper killed Reynolds in a deadly love triangle, police said.

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richard scott harper IM deadly love triangle Former pastor Richard Scott Harper pleaded guilty to the 2004 murder of church deacon Thad Reynolds. Former pastor Richard Scott Harper has pleaded guilty to the 2004 murder of church deacon Thad Reynolds.

On July 5, 2004, Harper stabbed Reynolds, a 36-year-old father of four, to death when he arrived at the northwest Georgia Frito-Lay distribution center where Reynolds was a district manager. Police said Reynolds was stabbed 19 times.

Both Harper and the Reynolds family attended Hollywood Baptist Church in Rome where Harper was a youth minister and Thad Reynolds was a deacon and marriage counselor.

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