A newlywed Nigerian woman, 45 year old
Uloma Curry-Walker, who was accused of
soliciting her firefighter husband’s murder
in order to collect $100,000 in insurance
money has been convicted of aggravated
murder. As God will have it, she wasted her
husband’s life for nothing because his ex-
wife was still the beneficiary of his
Insurance policy.
Uloma could receive life in prison without
parole for the November 2013 murder of
her late William Walker, whom she had
married just four months prior.
Jurors deliberated for less than two hours
before coming back with the verdict Friday,
Prosecutors said Uloma was way over her
head after running up tens of thousands of
dollars in debt when she asked her
then-17-year-old daughter and her
daughter’s boyfriend to find someone to
kill her husband so she could collect the
insurance money.
According to court testimony, Uloma gave
the boyfriend, Chad Padgett, a $1,000 down
payment to carry out the murder. Padgett
then contacted his cousin Chris Hein, who
initially failed in his attempt to kill Walker.
Hein then turned to Ryan Dorty to carry out
the murder.
Prosecutors said Dorty ambushed Walker
and shot him four times as he returned
home from getting fast food that Uloma
had ordered.
She and her husband were packing the
night he was killed for a move to a house
they had purchased outside Cleveland.
