The daughter-in-law of slain War Mayor Thomas Hatcher has been
sentenced on a lesser conspiracy charge.
Rebecca Lynn Hatcher received a one- to three-year sentence
Friday in McDowell County Circuit Court.
Hatcher had been scheduled to stand trial for conspiracy when
she pleaded guilty in June to the lesser charge of attempt to commit felony
conspiracy to commit murder.
City workers found the 72-year-old mayor's body in his home on
July 17, 2012. Prosecutors said he was smothered with a plastic bag. Last
November, a McDowell
County
Rebecca Hatcher on a first-degree murder charge.
Rebecca Hatcher's brother and co-defendant, Earl Click of Grundy , Virginia
