Erik Maund, Murder-for-Hire, Tennessee 2020

A federal jury in Nashville, Tennessee has returned guilty verdicts against three men in a murder-for-hire scheme. Erik Maund, 48, Bryon Brockway, 48, and Adam Carey, 32, were convicted of murder-for-hire with death resulting after a two-and-a-half-week jury trial.

The scheme involved Maund hiring Peled to respond to an extortion attempt by William Lanway, who had discovered Maund's extramarital affair with Holly Williams of Nashville. Maund agreed to pay Brockway and Carey $100,000 each to murder Lanway and Williams.

On March 12, 2020, Maund wired Peled $150,000 as part of the scheme. Brockway and Carey kidnapped Williams and Lanway from outside Williams' apartment complex in West Nashville and drove them to a nearby construction site where they were murdered.

The victims' bodies were found on the morning of March 13, 2020 inside Williams' vehicle. Over the course of the next year, Maund wired Peled an additional $900,000 as payment for the scheme.

Erik Maund, Bryon Brockway, and Adam Carey face a mandatory life sentence in federal prison. They will be set for separate sentencing hearings sometime in 2024.

Peled, a fourth member of the conspiracy, had previously pleaded guilty to the same charges and agreed to cooperate with the United States by testifying at trial. He will also be sentenced in 2024, where U.S. District Judge William L. Campbell, Jr. will take his cooperation into consideration as part of his ultimate sentence.

United States Attorney Henry C. Leventis praised the work of the detectives of the Metro Nashville Police Department and agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation whose thorough investigation made this outcome possible.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdtn/pr/jury-convicts-three-men-murder-hire-scheme