Testimony concludes in Mount Vernon murder plot trial
By Kera Wanielista, Skagit Valley Herald
Published: April 8, 2021, 8:27am
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MOUNT VERNON – Testimony wrapped up Wednesday in the trial of a Mount Vernon woman accused of plotting to have her ex-husband killed.
Vanessa Valdiglesias-Lavalle, 37, is charged in Skagit County Superior Court with solicitation to commit murder and solicitation to commit first-degree assault with a noxious substance after she allegedly tried to convince her 10-year-old son to kill his father.
Closing arguments are set for Thursday.
The investigation into the alleged murder plot began in June after the child – the oldest of the two children of Valdiglesias-Lavalle and her ex-husband – recorded a conversation with his mother where she allegedly told him to put rat poison in his father’s food or drink.