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Erik Charles Maund was busted Friday in connection to the murders of Holly Williams, 33, and her partner William Lanway, who were found riddled with bullets in […]","datePublished":"2021-12-14","dateModified":"2023-01-24","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.mbfc.com\/blog\/author\/mbfc\/#Person","name":"Perry Q. Minton","url":"https:\/\/www.mbfc.com\/blog\/author\/mbfc\/","identifier":12,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/61479d018bb374df87055f74efb25f1134c9a2f95664464cfb27b6aedf242ae8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/61479d018bb374df87055f74efb25f1134c9a2f95664464cfb27b6aedf242ae8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Minton, Bassett, Flores & Carsey, P.C.","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.mbfc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/logo-desktop.png","url":"https:\/\/www.mbfc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/logo-desktop.png","width":186,"height":104}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.mbfc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/muder-victims-1.webp","url":"https:\/\/www.mbfc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/muder-victims-1.webp","height":"1023","width":"1535"},"url":"https:\/\/www.mbfc.com\/blog\/texas-businessman-paid-hitmen-750k-to-kill-mistress-new-man-to-stop-them-from-exposing-affair\/","about":["In the News"],"wordCount":506,"articleBody":"A married Texas businessman paid special forces-trained hitmen $750,000 to murder his mistress and her new boyfriend after they threatened to expose his cheating, according to federal prosecutors.Erik Charles Maund was busted Friday in connection to the murders of Holly Williams, 33, and her partner William Lanway, who were found riddled with bullets in Nashville, Tenn., in March 2020.Maund \u2014 a partner in his family\u2019s auto dealership in Austin \u2014 had arranged to see Williams, with whom he \u201chad a prior relationship,\u201d during a trip to Nashville in February 2020, the indictment said.\u201cGood morning beautiful! \u2026 I will meet you in the bar like last time,\u201d he texted her, according to the charging documents.After the rendezvous, Williams\u2019 new man, Lanway, 36, started sending texts \u201cdemanding payment from Maund and threatened to expose his relationship with [Williams] if he did not receive it,\u201d the feds said.Holly A. Williams and Willam Lanway threatened to expose businessman Erik Maund\u2019s infidelities unless they were paid off. Maund hired a hitman to kill them. Nashville police departmenMaund immediately hired Gilad Peled, a 47-year-old former member of the Israeli Defense Forces and Mossad, according to the indictment.Peled allegedly worked with two ex-active duty Marines with special ops backgrounds: Bryon Brockway, 46, from Austin, and Adam Carey, 30, of North Carolina.Maund, 46, eventually paid more than $750,000 to the trio, who \u201cagreed to kidnap, threaten, intimidate, and murder\u201d the couple \u201cin retaliation\u201d for the \u201cattempted extortion,\u201d the indictment claimed.Erik Maund (left) hired ex-IDF and Mossad agent Gilad Peled (right) to murder his mistress and her new boyfriend when they attempted to blackmail him, feds say.Nashville police departmentBrockway and Carey ultimately snatched the couple outside their apartment building in Nashville \u2014 murdering Lanway on the spot, \u201cshooting him multiple times including two shots to his head one of which was near his right temple,\u201d the indictment said.After stuffing Lanway\u2019s body in a car, they kidnapped Williams and drove her to a construction site, the feds said.There, they murdered her \u201cby shooting her multiple times including a shot to the head near her right temple,\u201d the indictment alleged.Holly Williams and William Lanway were kidnapped outside their apartment, where Lanway was killed immediately. Williams was driven to a construction site where she was shot multiple times, feds say. Nashville Police DepartmentThe bodies were found in a white Acura at the construction site on Good Friday last year, Nashville police said, calling it an \u201celaborate murder-for-hire scheme.\u201dAll four suspects were arrested Friday on charges of conspiracy to commit kidnapping, kidnapping resulting in death, and carrying, brandishing and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.Maund\u2019s attorneys, Perry Minton and Sam Bassett, told the Austin American-Statesman on Monday that they had \u201conly briefly\u201d spoken to their client about the allegations.\u201cThe entire Maund family loves and supports their son,\u201d they insisted of the Texas auto-dealership dynasty.Ex-IDF soldier Gilad Peled worked with former Marines Bryon Brockway (left) and Adam Carey (right) to carry out the murders."},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Blog","item":"https:\/\/www.mbfc.com\/blog\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"A married Texas businessman paid special forces-trained hitmen $750,000 to murder his mistress","item":"https:\/\/www.mbfc.com\/blog\/texas-businessman-paid-hitmen-750k-to-kill-mistress-new-man-to-stop-them-from-exposing-affair\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]