The mother of three sons

who all are charged or convicted of murder in separate slayings

is now also in trouble with the law.

Birmingham police have charged 42-year-old Yolanda Seay with conspiracy to commit murder and solicitation for murder.Investigators say Yolanda Seay was active in the planning and solicitation of the shooting of Kandi Hawkins, a witness against two of her sons in separate cases. Hawkins was shot in June and left for dead, but survived her injuries. Her injuries left her a quadriplegic and she is being cared for at an undisclosed location.

Yolanda Seay was arrested Friday night at her Bankhead Highway home, said Birmingham homicide Sgt. Sam Noblitt. She was taken to the county jail with bond set at $120,000.

Her first-born Martez Seay, 25, is charged with capital murder in the May execution-style slaying of Lonnie Vaughn, a Vestavia Hills father of two who was found in northeast Jefferson County, nude and shot multiple times. Hawkins also is charged with capital murder in that case.

Martez Seay is now also charged with solicitation for murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the shooting of Hawkins, his on-again, off-again girlfriend.

Yolanda Seay's youngest son, Demarious Seay, is awaiting trial for capital murder in the April 2008 shooting death of a 17-year-old Parker High School student. He also is charged with attempted murder in the shooting of Hawkins.

Her middle child, Cortez Seay, pleaded guilty and was sentence to life in prison for the 2004 murder of a 50-year-old man in a drug house in a dispute over money.

In an interview with The Birmingham News in June, Yolanda Seay said she ached for the families that have been hurt and said she was heartbroken over Hawkins' injuries.

Click on the link below the map to see details on Jefferson, Shelby and Birmingham homicides in 2009.