A woman who pleaded guilty to trying to hire a hit man to murder her ex-husband has no remorse, the ex-husband claimed ahead of the premiere of a new show on Oxygen about contract killings.
Cynthia Guy, a therapist, asked one of her patients to arrange for the murder of Terry Thomas, prosecutors said.
The Casper Police Department had the patient record a conversation with Guy, during which he gave her a phone number for a person he said was a hit man.
The supposed hit man, “Frankie,” was actually a Division of Criminal Investigation agent, reported the Casper Star-Tribune.
Counselor Cynthia Guy wanted her ex-husband dead, but her patient teamed with investigators to take her down. #MurderForHire @OxygenCrimeTime
— Oxygen (@oxygen) April 3, 2019
Guy called the agent and agreed to pay $4,000—half up front—for the hit and met with him in person, telling him how to enter her ex-husband’s house undetected.
The agent later sent a text alerting Guy that he had killed her ex-husband and Casper police went to Guy’s house and informed her that Thomas had been killed. According to officials, she feigned emotion about the death before officers arrested her for solicitation.
Guy said in the courtroom in 2016 that a series of events led to her committing the crime, including the divorce, totaling her car, and being in debt.
“Due to all of these life-altering events, I temporarily lost my moral compass,” Guy said, reported the Billings Gazette.
Thomas said in a new interview published on April 4 that his ex-wife gave a warning sign before hiring a hit man.
“Before I filed for divorce [two years prior], she made a very odd comment. She actually said at one point, ‘I’m going to kill you or have you killed,” he told Fox News. “Everybody at some point gets angry. A lot of people spurt out ‘I’m going to kill you.’ But 99.9 percent don’t mean it. It’s just something said out of anger that most people in no way intend to follow through.”
“The way she said it, ‘I’m going to kill you or have you killed,’ struck me a little bit differently,” Thomas added. “I actually went to a safe house here in Cheyenne and requested at that time an order of protection, but could not get it because they said no judge would issue an order of protection or a restraining order based on words alone. Since she hadn’t done anything, there was nothing anybody can do.”
Guy was sentenced in 2016 to 20–25 years in prison but Thomas said that despite apologies to her family, co-workers, and community, she never apologized to him.
“I don’t think she has remorse,” he said.
The comments came ahead of the premiere of “Murder for Hire,” which explores contract killings, including the case of Guy.
Thomas told Oxygen.com that the marriage started off well but that his ex-wife soon started behaving like “Jekyll and Hyde,” as she would “snap at the drop of a dime.”
“She would at times become very volatile for no apparent reason,” Thomas said. “But I found she hid it well from most people.”
Things went downhill when Thomas took a job in Cheyenne, about two-and-a-half hours from their home in Casper, and he filed for a divorce. Guy didn’t take the news well and eventually made the attempt to get him killed.
“It appeared, and it made me feel like, she was handing me a model of how to kill her ex-husband. It was a perfect compiled kit,” the undercover agent who posed as a hit man told “Murder for Hire,” describing how Guy handed him pictures of Thomas’ home as well as Thomas himself.
He asked Guy how she wanted it done and she said she preferred that he stage the murder to look like Thomas killed himself. He responded that he would stage a robbery and she agreed.
“I’ve been planning this for six months, so I just had to find the right person to do it,” explained Guy.
Thomas added to Fox News that he’s worried about what will happen once Guy is freed.
“She is incarcerated with like-minded people, Some of those people aren’t going to be in as long as she is. What kind of plot is she potentially still thinking about?” he said.
“And even though I’m supposed to be made aware of her movements, the Department of Justice has failed miserably. She has been moved several times and I didn’t know about it. When I called to complain after I found out, I was just given an apology. … I have no idea of people she has befriended and whether they’re getting out. What potential is there?”
