Tennessee Lawyer’s 30-Year Sentence Upheld Despite Multiple Appeals in Failed Murder Plot
Nashville, TN – A Tennessee attorney will remain in prison after a judge recently upheld his 30-year sentence, rejecting multiple appeals for early release following his conviction for attempts to murder his wife. Fred Auston Wortman III, 49, was found guilty in 2015 of attempted first-degree murder and solicitation of first-degree murder. He devised three separate plans to kill his then-wife, which included poisoning her toothpaste, a tactic that also put their daughter at risk. …