The following ABC News crime video is about Leticia Silva. She is accused of trying to murder her children’s grandparents by actually getting the children to kill them. Silva allegedly even mailed a knife to the children to complete the dirty deed. The grandparents live in Greenville, North Carolina. They got wind of this double murder plot and reported it to the sheriff’s office. The children apparently confirmed to authorities what happened, and Leticia Silva was arrested for solicitation of murder. This video was added to the ABC website on March 6, 2013.
The grandparents found a knife under a pillow used by one of the two daughters. Upon questioning, the girls reportedly said they didn’t want to hurt their grandparents and were not going to do it. But law enforcement said it is difficult to know what a young child will do when her own mother tells her to do something.
The girls are 7 and 9 years of age.
Silva allegedly tried to complete the crime by mailing a knife and making phone calls from Lakeland, Florida, which is where she lives.
The specific alleged motive for the crime was not mentioned in this story. But a possible clue is that the grandparents have been the ones with custody of the girls for the past 7 years.