Susan Williams Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice has announced that a Garden City mother of four was arrested on March 4th after agreeing to pay a hitman $20,000 to kill her husband. In reality, the hitman was actually an undercover Nassau County Police detective.

Susan Williams, 43, was arrested by detectives with the Nassau County Police Department’s DA Squad and charged with Conspiracy in the Second Degree and Criminal Solicitation in the Second Degree. She faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.

At arraignment Williams was held on bail of $1 million bond or $500,000 cash.

Rice said that on February 19, Williams approached a confidential source and informed him that she wanted to have her husband, Peter Williams, murdered and that she wanted the source to arrange it. Instead of finding a hitman, the source contacted the DA’s Office.

On February 23, while under audio surveillance, the source called Williams to tell her that he could arrange a meeting with a hitman. That meeting took place on February 28, only the hitman was actually an undercover Nassau County police detective. During this meeting, Williams stated that she and her husband were in the middle of divorce proceedings and she wanted him dead.

Williams was told by the undercover detective that it would cost her $20,000 to have her husband killed. Police say that at a March 3 meeting between the two where she was given numerous opportunities to back out, Williams handed the undercover detective a photo of her husband, his home and work address, license plate number, and a provided a $500 down payment.

“That this defendant so casually decided to organize the murder of her husband shocks the conscience,” Rice said. “She was given numerous opportunities to call this off, yet she pursued it vigorously until the very end.”