Sergeant Jeremiah Peikert, 30, who works as a network communications systems specialist for the U.S. Army and is currently assigned to the 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade at Fort Cavazos, is charged with conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to commit risk of injury to a minor, after he helped his brother set up a murder-for-hire plot, an arrest warrant states.
The soldier’s brother, Joshua Peikert, 31, was also arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to commit risk of injury to a minor. Both Peikert brothers are being held on $500,000 bonds in Connecticut.
The investigation involves a conspiracy to hire a hitman to killed a 29-year-old woman, her 10-year-old girl, one-year-old girl, and the woman’s 23-year-old boyfriend, an arrest warrant states.
State police detectives began investigating the case on Oct. 19, 2023, after a “suspicious incident” involving an inmate was reported at the at Corrigan Correctional Center in Montville, CT.
A former inmate of the facility, referred to in the documents as Witness #1, and who is now incarcerated at another prison, allegedly sent a handwritten letter to the 29-year-old woman detailing a “murder-for-hire” plot targeting her family.
Continue reading at linkAccording to the arrest warrant, Jeremiah Peikert told detectives he was not surprised his brother wanted the 29-year-old woman dead because his brother was very manipulative and had displayed violent tendencies when they were growing up.
“It makes sense now,” Jeremiah Peikert wrote in his statement.
Detectives arrested Joshua Peikert on April 1, 2024; and Jeremiah Peikert on May 2, 2024.
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