By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 07:50 EST, 16 April 2013 | UPDATED: 09:03 EST, 16 April 2013 Charged: Dorothy Canfield, 84, allegedly tried to hire a hit man to kill the Houston-area prosecutor handling her case An 84-year-old female inmate allegedly tried to hire a hit man to kill the Houston-area prosecutor handling her case and to maim his boss like the series of killings of other law enforcement officials elsewhere in Texas. Dorothy Canfield allegedly sought to have Montgomery County District Attorney Brett Ligon attacked and his assistant district attorney, Rob Freyer, slain. Canfield allegedly wanted the attacks to appear similar to the recent unsolved killings of two other Texas prosecutors- Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse. McLelland and his wife were found dead in their homes on March 30, about two months after Hasse was fatally shot outside the local courthouse.
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Dorothy Canfield, 84, in Houston, Texas tried to hire a hitman to target the prosecutors on her case
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Said to be inspired by the killings of other District Attorneys elsewhere in the state
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She was caught by an undercover sting operation
'Dorothy Canfield hoped to capitalize on the tragic murder of the Kaufman County district attorney, his wife and assistant district attorney @placeholder to disrupt the prosecution of her theft charge in the most violent way possible,' Ligon said.