Twisted siblings’ $2.8m murder plot exposed

A twisted brother and sister plotted to hire a hit man to murder their stepfather for a very disturbing reason.

A twisted Mississippi brother and sister plotted to hire a hit man to murder their stepfather — so they could swipe his trust fund and “bleed that motherf****r dry”, authorities said.

Joshua D. Bryan, 29, and Regan E. Bryan, 30, were sentenced to prison for their roles in the murder-for-hire plot that aimed to get their stepfather’s $1.75 million (AU $2.68 million).

It also targeted his life insurance policy, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi, New York Post reported.

Siblings have been arrested over a plot to murder their stepfather. Picture: Madison County Detention Center

The sick scheme hatched in December 2020, when a confidential informant met with Regan, who claimed her stepfather had molested her in the past and that she wanted him dead, according to court papers.

The informant then offered to murder him for $5,000 (AU $7681) to “take care of him for the rest of his life”, according to the criminal complaint.

The informant then told the stepfather about the sibling’s plot — but continued to meet with Regan and Joshua over several months for secretly recorded conversations about the plan to kill him, according to the complaint.

During one recorded conversation, the informant asked Joshua for the go-ahead for the execution and Joshua told him to “do what he saw fit,” court documents stated. The siblings then spoke about their alibis and ways of paying a hired hit man.

Regan told the confidential informant her stepfather molested her, leading her to wish for his death. Picture: Madison County Detention Center

The siblings were listed as beneficiaries on a $1.75 million trust that the stepfather would’ve inherited from their grandmother. They told the informant that she and Joshua would prefer to “bleed that motherf****r dry” and take every dollar of his estate than watch the stepfather, who was the main beneficiary, rake in the cash.

Joshua and Regan were arrested in January 2021, following an investigation done by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Regan was sentenced to 65 months in prison for conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, which she previously pleaded guilty to, and Joshua was sentenced to 120 months after a jury found him guilty of the same charge in December.

This story originally appeared on the New York Post and reproduced with permission