Louisville doctor accused of hiring undercover fed to kill her ex-husband

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A Louisville doctor has been arrested after allegedly hiring an undercover FBI agent to kill her ex-husband.

Dr. Stephanie Russell, 52, a pediatrician with Kidzlife Pediatrics in Norton Commons, was arrested Thursday by the FBI.

Russell is accused of contacting a person on Sunday to kill her former husband. She agreed to pay a total of $7,000 in the murder-for-hire scheme. She placed half the payment in a drop box outside her office on Wednesday, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Kentucky, and agreed to pay the remaining $3,500 after her former husband was killed.

If convicted, Russell faces up to 10 years in federal prison.

She is being held in the Oldham County Detention Center.

By Ken Howlett, News Director

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