Lindsay Shiver, the housewife involved in a ‘murder for hire’ case, was released from a prison in the Bahamas today. She had been incarcerated for four months after making a TV appearance.
Shiver faced criticism for her television interview on Good Morning America, which was deemed as disrespecting the legal process. The segment discussed her upcoming trial for allegedly planning to kill her husband, Robert.
The former beauty pageant winner, 38, didn’t discuss the alleged conspiracy in the October 3 broadcast.
But the spectacle of Shiver ‘parading around in a blue sundress’ on ABC was enough for Justice Cheryl Grant-Thompson to drag her back to court.
As a result of this media appearance, her bail of $100,000 was revoked for violating rules on discussing the case before the trial. Subsequently, she spent the Christmas holiday in the dismal Fox Hill prison in Nassau, known for its poor conditions in the Caribbean.
Justice Neil Brathwaite reversed the decision Wednesday but slapped Shiver and her co-accused barman boyfriend Adrien Bethel, 30, with a gag order preventing them from making public comments.
Shiver can fly back to her native Abbeville, Alabama but will have to live with her parents and wear a GPS ankle tag.
Bethel was also thrown in prison for his role in the GMA segment, in which he scoffed at claims they had plotted with alleged hitman Faron Newbold Jr, 30, to slay Shiver’s estranged husband Robert, 39.
The pair blamed ABC for reneging on a contractual agreement not to air any footage before the outcome of their conspiracy to murder trial, scheduled for August.
But Justice Cheryl Grant-Thompson wrote in a scathing 14-page ruling obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com: ‘What the respondents have done can be seen by the applicant as a spit in the face of justice.
‘If it were the other way around had counsel for the Crown proceeded on a frolic of their own, making unnecessary comments to the international media, the respondents would likely be “up in arms”. They would be concerned with their right to a fair trial.
‘A defendant giving an interview at this stage of proceedings in the US might be unwise but would be perfectly legal.
 But it’s unlawful in the Bahamas, which has its roots in the British justice system, where it’s considered interfering with justice to broadcast anything that could influence a prospective juror.
‘Mrs Shiver … can be seen on the Good Morning America interview parading around in a blue sundress on international television, speaking directly relative to the evidence in the trial,’ the ruling thundered.
It added: ‘The respondents were arrested and charged within The Bahamas. The respondents applied for bail in adherence to the laws of The Bahamas.
‘It cannot now be asserted that since they are citizens of the United States of America that they abide by the laws and customs of the USA in relation to a trial pending in The Bahamas.
‘This court will not accept this blatant disregard for the laws of The Bahamas.’
The spat is the latest contentious episode in an often-times shambolic court process that has seen Shiver’s trial pushed back multiple times just as it’s poised to begin.
She and Robert Shiver once had it all – three great kids, a seven-bed mansion, a private jet and a vacation home in Baker’s Bay, an ultra-exclusive Bahamas enclave where the likes of Tom Brady and Michael Jordan own property.
However, former Auburn football star Robert filed for divorce in April 2023 accusing his wife of cheating, while Shiver countered with claims of ‘physical and mentally cruel treatment’.
Three months later she was sensationally charged in the Bahamas with allegedly conspiring with Bethel to have his childhood pal Newbold Jr murder Robert.
Shiver had allegedly sent Newbold Jr pictures of her estranged husband of 13 years drinking in a bar near Baker’s Bay – along with a WhatsApp message stating ‘kill him’.
The case also hinges on a disputed ‘confession’ in which she admitted to cops that she told Bethel she ‘wanted to kill’ Robert and that Bethel ‘understood’ and ‘wanted to kill him also.’
In the same police interview, however, Shiver insisted that any talk of killing was merely ‘said out of anger and frustration’, according to prosecution documents obtained by DailyMail.com.
When Bahamian authorities informed Robert of the alleged threat, he branded his wife ‘manipulating’ and accused her of having multiple affairs, according to the documents.
She, Bethel and Newbold Jr face up to 60 years in prison if they are found guilty.
Robert is still living at the couple’s marital home in Thomasville, Georgia, where their hostile divorce and custody battle has stalled because of the Nassau proceedings.
He’s currently dating reality TV star Savannah Chrisley, 27, and has never spoken publicly about his estranged wife.
