By Rebecca Thomas
WAFF
PHOENIX — Bernadette Beanes has been behind bars for the past eight months for her role in a May 2013 kidnapping and hostage standoff that ended in death.
According to court documents, Beanes fatally shot another suspect, Isreal Celis, before being arrested.
Now the 20-year-old is accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill four witnesses, including a child.
Fellow inmate Windy Panzo blew the lid off of the alleged murder-for-hire plot, and has since been moved from the general population at the Estrella Jail into protective custody because of death threats.
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