Litchfield, Poston, O’Conner
S.C. - My favorite story of the week. Police learned via an anonymous tip, that Matthew Jason Litchfield Jr., 27, had employed two men, James O’Conner, 33, and Martin Wayne Poston, 30, to help kill his wife, her unborn child and her boyfriend. So they set up a nice sting that got all three men arrested before anyone got hurt. But before we get to that portion of the story, here is a bit of background.
Litchfield was already in trouble with the law because of a May of 2007 arrest on charges of criminal sexual conduct with a minor and lewd act upon a child under 16. As a condition of his bond, he had to wear an ankle bracelet. Later, in July, he was arrested for grabbing his wife of 9 years, Elana Clark, by the neck and choking her at knifepoint. It was this incident that led to Clark leaving Litchfield and taking their two daughters aged 8 and 4, with her. She eventually moved in with her current boyfriend.
In January, after numerous court appearances where both Litchfield and Clark accused the other of being shitty parents, a judge granted custody of their two children to Litchfield’s mother. I would love to know why. Up to this point, Clark had kept her location hidden from Litchfield, but two weeks ago, she was made to state her address in public court.
So now we are in April. Litchfield wears an ankle bracelet and living with O’Conner and Poston. Clark is living with her boyfriend and is now 8-months pregnant, and Litchfield knows where she lives.
On Wednesday, deputies got an anonymous phone call from someone alerting them to a murder-for-hire plot involving Litchfield and Co. They learned that Litchfield had told O’Conner and Poston that a pickup truck would be waiting for them in a convenience store parking lot. They would use this pickup truck to drive to the Clark’s location and use a shotgun to kill the inhabitants. That was the plan. A fairly simple plan. Here is what the men did not know.
They did not know that Clark and her boyfriend were already in protective custody. They also didn’t know that police had immeditately started surveillance on both parties after the anonymous tip. They also didn’t know that before they had got there, police had switched the truck in the convenience store parking lot with one of their own, complete with a nifty wire to record whatever was being said inside it. They were compeltely oblivious to the fact that they were followed to Litchfield’s house where they were observed walking out of the house with a shotgun. They didn’t notcie that parts of the highway they were on was closed down. Since deputies already knew where the two men were headed, they had done this in case the upcoming traffic stop turned hairy and one of the men decided to start using the shotgun they had. But that didn’t happen.
When O’Conner and Poston were pulled over and surrounded by a gaggle of barking S.C. cops with their guns drawn, they gave up without incident. Meanwhile, in front of a church somewhere in South Carolina, Litchfield was just about to attend Wednesday service. Before he could get through the doors, police arrested him in the parking lot.
Both men who were to carry out the deed both have criminal records, Poston’s worst offenses are involving DUI’s and bad checks. O’Conner, on the other hand, proves that looks can be decieving and has a lengthy criminal record and a history with confidential stings.
Litchfield has been charged with three counts each of soliciting to commit murder and conspiracy to commit murder and is being held without bond in the Berkeley County detention center after waiving his right to a bond hearing. James O’Conner and Martin Wayne Poston are both charged with three counts of conspiracy to commit murder. Their bond was set at $1.5 million each.
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27 responses so far ↓
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Kathy
Apr 25, 2008 at 10:01 am -Is this for real?
How the hell do you not notice that the truck you are in is different than the one you were in just a few minutes before. I don’t care how much they look alike, there had to be SOME differences.
These have to be the most retarded hit men in the history of the universe.
How much was he gonna pay them? A case of Natural Light?
2
thepooh5
Apr 25, 2008 at 10:08 am -Probably just a cold pack - they wouldn’t even rate a case….. LOL!!
3
Morbid
Apr 25, 2008 at 10:15 am -lol! Sorry, I added 5 words to the original story. The two guys were supposed to pick up the truck at the convenience store. Before they had gotten there, the cops had swapped out the truck with a different one.
The fact that they then drove the truck to Litchfield’s house, and even he didn’t notice that it was not the right one, leads me to thinking that you may have a good idea as to where the anonymous tip came from…maybe the person who was supposed to supply the truck? Hopefully more information will come out in regards to those details.
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Angel
Apr 25, 2008 at 10:23 am -These guys must have a collective IQ of less than 10. In fact, I’d be really surprised if they have more than one brain cell between the three of them. I guess they take turns, each retaining custody of the brain cell two days a week.
I’m sure they’ll get an excellent education in the pokey, though, won’t they?
5
Kathy
Apr 25, 2008 at 10:54 am -Look at their necks (and faces) they are actually RED!!!
Someone hear dueling banjos?
6
Angel
Apr 25, 2008 at 10:59 am -Don’t forget about the mouth organ, Kathy. I bet they’ll get a lot of practice on those in jail, just not the musical kind. Hahaha
7
mom of 4
Apr 25, 2008 at 12:13 pm -I here em Kathy, all the way up here in Canada. Thats how fucking loud they are! I’m not sure any of them had custody of the lone brain cell they share that day!
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Hippiepoet
Apr 25, 2008 at 1:28 pm -“Squeal like a pig!”
Holy shit, I jumped when their red ass faces appeared. Fuck me, I thought Morbid spiked my kool-aid again and I was seeing shit.
9
Athena
Apr 25, 2008 at 1:36 pm -I’m supposed to believe that these guys range in age from 27 to 33? Bullshit. No fuckin’ way. Look at the tectonic rift-sized wrinkle on the middle one’s forehead!
10
crimenthusiast
Apr 25, 2008 at 3:01 pm -LOL - I was thinking the same thing! I can’t beleive that any of these guys are under the age of 40. How ironic that Litchfield was arrested going to church! What was he going to ask God to forgive him for hiring “hitmen” to kill his ex-wife?
Dumbass POSs…that’s for sure.
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Angel
Apr 25, 2008 at 7:10 pm -He probably wasn’t going to ask forgiveness for anything, because asking forgiveness is admitting you did something wrong. I think he was probably enough of a selfish bastard that he was going to thank God for helping him achieve his goal. Fucking asswipe moron….
12
zora
Apr 25, 2008 at 8:53 pm -Not only that, I smell their cheap aftershave … I believe it’s called Ignorance by White Trash.
Sheee-it. I bet if we added all three morons’ IQs together, it still wouldn’t reach a triple digit.
13
Angel
Apr 25, 2008 at 9:09 pm -Read comment #4. I’ve already done the mathematical formula to determine that the collective IQ is not even in the DOUBLE digits. Their collective cognitive capabilities put them only slightly higher on the scale than a dead turnip.
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WryBread
Apr 25, 2008 at 9:27 pm -South Carolina — whew! Not hillbillies!
What UGLY men, and yet one had sex with a woman at least twice to have two kids. Unless the wife stood across the room and the guy shot sperm at her like a hose and it took.
Red faces, red — necks, as Kathy says.
Perhaps a Deputy Fun Kit option — “Paint your own Rednecks!”
15
Angel
Apr 25, 2008 at 9:36 pm -Yeah, the guys were ugly…but have you seen some of the women from some of those po-dunk towns? Those three guys are actually prettier than some of the women there. And I have yet to see a pic of the wife. Perhaps she was one of the fuglier ones and Litchfield was a good catch for her.
16
WryBread
Apr 25, 2008 at 9:41 pm -Oh, Angel, say it ain’t so! These are the ugliest men that I have ever seen.
The one on the left is looking to snag the deputy’s sandwich. The one in the middle thinks maybe he can get away if he wrinkles forehead and pretends to be an old-fashioned water heater. And the third one thinks those glasses make him look like John Lennon, but he just looks like a square of rental-unit carpeting.
17
Hippiepoet
Apr 25, 2008 at 9:52 pm -lmao
18
zora
Apr 26, 2008 at 5:26 pm -ACK! Angel, once again I’ve been exposed as a Skimmer. LOL
But can I say, great minds think alike?
19
Angel
Apr 26, 2008 at 11:06 pm -You may! You know it may have actually been your original thought, and I just read your mind, and typed it up before you did. I am psychic, you know…..No, wait, that’s psychotic, not psychic……maybe I didn’t read your mind after all…But great minds DO think alike!
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nurseronda
Apr 27, 2008 at 12:35 am -Looks to me as though the cops tied them by their feet and dragged them to the station behind the police car with their faces on the pavement.
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Angel
Apr 27, 2008 at 2:55 am -That would be GREAT! Do ya think it might really have happened that way? I could sleep so well tonight, if I could believe that was true. Nah, probably didn’t happen. Cops have to follow rules, and I’m sure one of them says something like, “Thou shalt not drag stupid asshats to jail by their feet, with their faces on the ground.” Or something like that…..Too bad though.
22
nurseronda
Apr 27, 2008 at 3:04 am -Angel, as you have read on D’D, cops don’t always go by the rules. It looks to me that they did just that….Sleep well my friend.
23
Angel
Apr 27, 2008 at 3:17 am -Thanks, I will! *luvs and shugahs*
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bornagainpagan
Apr 27, 2008 at 5:54 am -Yehaw! they shore brede em’ smart downe south.
Forget jail - as with most dumb animals, catch n’ release, or put ‘em ta sleep.
25
parkersmom
Apr 28, 2008 at 3:08 pm -While I understand that these men are total and complete Neanderthals, please don’t make the assumption that just because they are from a small town in the south that we are all like them. Rest assured that they are not comfy-cozy in nice cells with cable t.v. Our jail is just that…jail…not the Comfort Inn as some are.
BTW…Elana is not a very attractive woman, but again that does not mean that we are all what is depicted on Jerry Springer…There are some of us who are able to exude a bit of class.
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thepooh5
Apr 28, 2008 at 3:23 pm -Thanks Parkersmom - my sentiments exactly. I’m so glad you addressed this. As I have stated, I am from a small town from the south, Hee Haw Hell is how I usually refer my town, but these and any others front paging the Demon are no reflection of me or my family.
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Angel
Apr 28, 2008 at 3:35 pm -The Angel knows that not all people from small southern towns are like these guys. If they were Angel would be writing this from a jail cell, or from the terminally ugly ward at the hospital. LOL.
I, myself, live in a small southern town (pop. less than 2000). But you have to admit, most of the fuck-ups on here who are from small southern towns are uglier than homemade sin, and can count the number of original teeth in their mouths on one hand. And have fingers left over to use for nose-picking.
I look like a goddess, myself, and my hubby is the sexiest man alive! In my own little world, of course. To the rest of the population, we are probably pretty average specimens. With brains and class, when we choose to employ those two traits.
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