Cops Say Woman Asked Wrong Man to Bump Off Her Son's Ex

She's "the sweetest woman in the town"—and a 5-foot-three 83-year-old woman allegedly wanted her dead. 

The Boston Globe travels to Plainfield, NH, to look at the case of Pauline Chase and her son, Maurice Temple, who are accused of conspiring to murder Temple's ex-wife, Jean Temple. 

The latter woman is, as the Globe calls her, "the beloved postmaster in this sublime little mountain town," but the report's focus isn't on the target of the alleged hit, but the alleged hit itself—and the somewhat ludicrous idea that one could hire a hitman in a tiny town where everyone knows everyone. Indeed, prosecutors allege Chase sought Mark Horne's help in bumping off her one-time daughter-in-law. But he's no hitman.

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