A former Marine who infamously urinated on the body of a Taliban soldier is now being credited for stopping his girlfriend's alleged murder-for-hire plot against her child's father.

Joseph Chamblin was recorded with three other soldiers in 2011 urinating on deceased combatants in Afghanistan.

The scout sniper faced a special court-martial and lost a rank after the video surfaced online in January 2012.

Chamblin left the Marine Corps in 2013 as a sergeant and returned home to Tennessee where he had a remodeling and construction business, according to The Daily Beast.

In April 2015 he started dating 29-year-old Laura Buckingham, a fellow ex-soldier who served two tours in Iraq.

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Arrested: Laura Buckingham, 29, was arrested for allegedly asking her boyfriend Joseph Chamblin to recommend an assassin to kill her child's father, police say. She was involved in a custody battle over her 3-year-old son with her ex-boyfriend

Joseph Chamblin was one of four Marines seen in a video where the soldiers urinated on the bodies of dead Taliban insurgents (above). The scout sniper faced a special court-martial and lost a rank after the video surfaced online in January 2012

In April 2015 Chamblin started dating the 29-year-old woman and they eventually moved in together in a Kingston rental home

The couple's relationship grew and they eventually moved in together in a Kingston rental home.

Buckingham was involved in a custody battle with her former boyfriend, Bradley Sutherland, over their 3-year-old son.

Chamblin said that she repeatedly asked him to help her make Sutherland 'go away' using his connections in the military,Knoxville News Sentinel reported.

He decided to record some of their conversations after he became worried that she was actually serious.

Chamblin then handed the recordings over to police who then launched a sting operation where a member of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation went undercover earlier this month.

Buckingham allegedly paid at least part of a $30,000 fee for the murder of Sutherland, who is from New Albany, Indiana but resides in the Louisville, Kentucky area, according to the Sentinel.

Chamblin said that Buckingham repeatedly asked him to help her make Sutherland 'go away' using his connections in the military. He decided to record some of their conversations after he became worried that she was actually serious

Chamblin then handed the recordings over to police who then launched a sting operation where a member of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation went undercover earlier this month. Buckingham allegedly paid money to the agent to have her ex Bradley Sutherland (above) killed

'[Buckingham] acted with intent to complete a course of action that would constitute the offense of premeditated murder by hiring and paying another to kill Bradley Sutherland and thereby taking a substantial step toward the commission of that offense,' according to Roane County Sheriff's Office press statement.

Sutherland was shocked to learn of Buckingham's alleged plan to kill him. He said that he always had a 'civil relationship' with her.

'It's really all a shock. Today on the way home, it hit me, what she'd done, and I had to stop on the side of the road to collect myself,' Sutherland told WATE.

'When it comes down to it, it's all about my son. That's all that really matters.'

According to WATE, Buckingham had been driving to Louisville every Sunday to exchange custody of her son with Sutherland.

He said that she mentioned to him that the drive had become a financial burden, WHAS reported.

In an effort for authorities to be able to show Buckingham (pictured above) that the plan had worked to kill her former flame, Sutherland had to stage his own death in a parking lot

One of Buckingham's relatives told the Daily Beast that she had 'very bad PTSD' that led to at least two suicide attempts. The relative also claims that she became more isolated since she began dating Chamblin (right)

In an effort for authorities to be able to show Buckingham that the plan had worked to kill her former flame, Sutherland had to stage his own death in a parking lot, WLKY reported.

He now has custody of their son as she is currently in jail on $150,000 bond facing a charge of intent to commit first-degree murder.

One of Buckingham's relatives told the Daily beast that she had 'very bad PTSD' that led to at least two suicide attempts.

The relative also claims that the brunette beauty became more isolated since she began dating Chamblin.

'When she was around him she picked up ideas that were kind of foreign to what we knew about her. She would get standoffish and he was getting her to cut-off with her family I think,' the unnamed relative told the Daily Beast.

'I don't know if he had something to do with pushing her over the edge, to want somebody dead—it's crazy.

'I truly think her boyfriend was encouraging her and then of course things went down where she was contracting with an undercover cop.'

An order of protection has been issued against Buckingham for both Chamblin and Sutherland. She is currently in jail on $150,000 bond

According to Buckingham's Facebook page, last month she shared a somewhat cryptic quote, 'Sometimes, the person you'd take a bullet for ends up being the one behind the gun.'

Chamblin told WATE that he and Buckingham are no longer dating.

An order of protection has been issued against Buckingham for both Chamblin and Sutherland.

'If she makes bond, I and my children will be in danger of repercussions,' Chamblin wrote in an affidavit, according to the Sentinel. 'She has threatened me in the past.'

Of the urination incident Chamblin, who wrote a book called 'Into Infamy: A Marine Sniper's War', told the Military Times in 2013 that he didn't see a problem with it.

'I didn't see anything wrong with it. I would do it again. It wasn't like we had some random Afghans laying there. They were insurgents, they had weapons and they were trying to kill us,' Chamblin told the Military Times.