A small city near Savannah, Georgia, has fired its golf course superintendent after officials there learned of a murder-for-hire plot.
A dispute that occurred about 10 years ago over a $20 million family estate reportedly led Jim Roy Watkins Jr. to hire someone to kill his brother, according to Georgia TV station WJCL-TV.
Watkins allegedly tried to pay $100,000 to commit the crime. The TV station reported that the Florida Department of Corrections confirmed that Watkins served less than two years of a six-year sentence for the crime. He was released in June of 2016. The town of Rincon, Georgia, hired him in June of 2022 as golf superintendent.
This all came to light after a local citizen ran an open records request, discovered Watkins’ past and alerted the city council, which said in a statement that it’s working to finalize an updated policy on background checks for anyone associated with the city.