Three arrested in murder-for-hire gone wrong

(KING) More than 18 months after a woman was murdered in Snohomish County, Washington, three people are in custody.

“There was evidence out there. The detectives just needed to find it, and once they found it, it was literally like taking a thread on a sweater and the whole thing came undone,” said Shari Ireton, director of communications at the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office.

The investigation started before 2 a.m. on September 20, 2017. Alisha Canales-McGuire, 24, had been at her sister Amanda’s home, watching her nephew and two nieces while her sister was out of town.

“Patrol arrived on scene and found Alisha basically dead in the doorway of the home,” said Ireton. “We believed at the time even, that the intended victim was going to be the victim’s sister who had had a very difficult break up and rocky relationship with her ex-husband.”

After the murder, Amanda’s ex-husband, Kevin Lewis, reportedly told investigators “he was home all night.”

It wasn’t until almost a year later that a tip took the case in a new direction.

“Patrol received a phone call from somebody in the Spokane area who said she had been at a social gathering and a young woman there claimed she had been hired to kill someone in Snohomish County,” said Ireton.

The young female would have been 16-years-old at the time of the crime, and the difficult thing for detectives is she went by different aliases on social media. It took months to unravel.

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