These staged murder photos led to wife's guilty verdict in murder-for-hire plot to kill husband

Editor's Note: These photos were staged by law enforcement with assistance from the subject photographed to appear to show the victim of a murder-for-hire plot. The subject in the photos was not harmed. Editor's Note: These photos were staged by law enforcement with assistance from the subject photographed to appear to show the victim of a murder-for-hire plot. The subject in the photos was not harmed. Image 1 of / 20 Caption Close These staged murder photos led to wife's guilty verdict in murder-for-hire plot to kill husband 1 / 20 Back to Gallery

Montgomery County prosecutors on Wednesday released the faked photos of a staged murder-for-hire that led to the conviction of a Spring woman for attempting to kill her husband.

Maria Sosa was found guilty Tuesday and sentenced to 20 years in prison for solicitation of murder, a second-degree felony.

Prosecutors say that in 2015, an acquaintance of Sosa reached out to the Precinct 3 Constable's Office alleging that Sosa had asked the person to help find someone to kill her then-husband Ramon Sosa, a Houston-area boxing instructor.

An undercover officer posing as a hitman arranged a parking lot meetup with Maria Sosa on July 20, 2015, where she then offered the officer $2,000 and her husband's used pickup to have Ramon Sosa murdered, prosecutors said.

When the undercover officer offered to have her husband beaten up, Maria Sosa replied, "No, I want him dead."

Two days later, the undercover officer returned with staged photos of her husband appearing to show him shirtless in a ditch with a bullet wound to his temple. Sosa allegedly smiled, shook the undercover officer's hand and paid him an extra $1,000, according to prosecutors.

The couple has since divorced.