Woman in prison tries hiring inmates to kill family, Florida cops say. She’s sentenced

A woman behind bars solicited other inmates to kill her family and promised them a cut of her $2 million inheritance, Florida authorities said.

Tureygua Inaru, 31, was sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of criminal solicitation to commit murder, records filed in Osceola County show.

She was also sentenced Jan. 8 to three years in prison on two counts of writing threats to kill or to do bodily injury and one count of aggravated stalking with a credible threat.

Prosecutors confirmed the sentences will run concurrently. Her attorney declined to comment to McClatchy News on the case.

The charges stem from Inaru’s time in prison when two fellow inmates reported that Inaru was trying to hire them to kill multiple members of her family, according to an arrest affidavit filed by the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office.

Inaru told her cellmates she would receive $2 million in inheritance after her father and grandparents were killed, and she promised the killer $50,000 for each person killed, inmates told deputies.

She even told one of the cellmates she was trying to hire that the woman could have Inaru’s parent’s house as payment, deputies said. But she said if no one else would do the job, she would do it herself when she got out, according to investigators.

Deputies said one cellmate told authorities that Inaru brought up the plot every day.

Inaru’s cellmates believed she had “snapped” and they reported her to authorities in December 2022, deputies said.

In another layer of the vengeance scheme, Inaru is also accused of bragging that she had a Navy SEAL friend on the outside who was going to kill a prosecutor she claimed was “framing” her for crimes.

The prosecutor told law enforcement he had begun receiving harassing emails, including from real estate sites thanking him for his inquiry into selling his home, which he wasn’t selling, and emails from porn sites, deputies said.

He noted these emails were similar to ones Inaru was accused of sending her Disney World co-workers, which is what landed her in prison in the first place, McClatchy News previously reported.

To investigate further, law enforcement sent an undercover agent to prison to spend time with Inaru in January 2023, according to the affidavit. She told the fake inmate about the prosecutor and the lengths to which she went to obtain his home address, deputies said.

She also said she “made the mistake of telling her story to the wrong people” and that they falsely reported her for trying to kill her family, investigators said.

When investigators interviewed her, she leveled an array of accusations against her family to explain why she wanted them dead, according to the affidavit.

Osceola County is part of the Orlando metropolitan area.

This story was originally published January 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM with the headline "Woman in prison tries hiring inmates to kill family, Florida cops say. She’s sentenced."