A year-old Florida man and his year-old mistress have been charged with hiring a hitman to kill the male suspect's wife and make it look like a botched burglary. Jacksonville Sheriff's Lt. The search continues for the person who stabbed year-old Velvet Floyd Burns to death last month.
Burns told officers he left for work at 3. Amanda Love, 31 left , and her lover, Jerry 'Tommy' Burns, 50 right , have been charged with second-degree murder in the May 9 stabbing death of Burns' wife, year-old Velvet Burns.
According to Love, Burns allegedly promised the hired killer an unspecified sum of money after the murder was completed.
The payout was to come from his wife's life insurance policy. Burns was working in Tallahassee, about miles west of Jacksonville, at the time of his wife's violent death. A friend who found Velvet Burns' body said when Jerry returned home from work, he dropped to his knees and appeared inconsolable pictured together in Dollywood.
Velvet and Jerry Burns have a son, who had recently gotten engaged, and a daughter, who had just graduated from college last month.
