Lindsay Shiver was, by all outside appearances, a happy wife and mother of three.
According to the several reports, however, Shiver allegedly began an affair in the Bahamas with a 28-year-old man she met at a bar a few months ago.
Eventually, her husband Robert Shiver, a former Auburn football player, learned of the affair after hiring a private investigator and filed for divorce. Lindsay, a former Auburn cheerleader, responded by also filing for a divorce, citing alleged domestic violence.
Robert was a long-snapper for Auburn from 2006-08. Lindsay, a former cheerleader, was Miss Houston County in 2005 and finished second in the National Peanut Festival pageant.
Robert is an executive vice president for Senior Life Insurance Co., according to the agency’s website. He is the son of Allen Shiver, who served for more than four decades as CEO of Flowers Foods before stepping down in 2019.
The couple have a home in Thomasville, Ga., and a vacation home in the Bahamas. The pair have three sons together with the youngest just four years old.
Allegedly, Lindsay and the man she was having the affair with, Terrance Bethel, planned to hire a friend of Bethel named Farron Newbold Jr. to kill Robert.
Lindsay’s grandfather, Tom Shirley, told the New York Post the situation “tore us up.”
“It’s just a shame, a crying shame, for Robert and the kids and everyone else,” Shirley said. “I know Lindsay or I thought I did and I don’t know what could have happened, but something happened.”
Lindsay and her conspirators were arrested in the Abaco Islands last month. After being taken into custody, the trio were transported 90 miles to Fox Hill prison in Nassau.
Lindsay remains in jail after being granted $100,000 bail last Wednesday, her lawyer Ian Cargill told CNN. Bethel and Newbold Jr. were released on $20,000 bail, Cargill told CNN.
Austen Shipley is a staff writer for Yellowhammer News.
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