The woman told police she wanted to collect on her husband’s life insurance policy.

KEENE, N.H. (AP) – A Marlow woman accused of plotting with an ex-boyfriend to poison her husband struck a deal with prosecutors to avoid being charged with attempted murder.

Corrine Galford, 34, pleaded guilty Friday to attempting to destroy evidence and attempting to buy the controlled drug ketamine. In return, the charge of attempted murder was dismissed.

The deal calls for Galford to serve up to seven years in prison. She was released on bail until her sentencing hearing, which has yet to be scheduled.

Galford was arrested in Keene last summer while allegedly trying to convince her ex-boyfriend Andrew Fredette to buy the animal tranquilizer ketamine. Fredette said she wanted the drug to poison her husband James Galford.

Galford did not believe the charge and said he believed it was a set up by Fredette. According to court records, however, Corrine Galford told police she decided to kill her husband rather than divorce him so she could collect his $200,000 life insurance policy and keep their home.

Galford initially pleaded innocent to charges in March. The couple continued to live together until January, when she filed for a restraining order against her husband, alleging he’d beaten and raped her. Two months later, they were back in court asking for her bail requirements to be amended so they could move back in together.

Transcripts of secretly recorded conversations between Galford and Fredette suggest she tried to convince him to buy the drug and then tried to destroy the body wire he was wearing to implicate her in the alleged murder plot.

“Ms. Galford is looking forward to presenting the extenuating circumstances that led to this situation at her sentencing hearing,” public defender Richard Guerriero said.

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