A Florida woman has been charged with the murder of her husband who went missing 17 years ago.
An indictment made public Wednesday by Lee County officials accuses the widow of Mike Williams of plotting his death for months before his best friend shot him in December of 2000.
Denise Williams was ordered held without bond after pleading not guilty. She was arrested Tuesday on charges of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and accessory after the fact in her husband's death.
The indictment alleges that she conspired with Brian Winchester for more than nine months to kill Williams. Winchester helped him write a $1 million insurance policy six months before he disappeared, and later married Denise.
The case has always been considered suspicious. Without a body after the disappearance. Denise originally Williams petitioned to have her late husband declared dead due to accidental drowning while duck hunting alone and being eaten by alligators.
She married Winchester in December 2005, but the relationship soured and they divorced in 2016.
Last year, Winchester pleaded no contest to kidnapping his ex-wife at gunpoint and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. The very next day, authorities announced that Mike Williams' remains were found at the end of a dead-end road after they received "new information."
Winchester and Williams could face numerous other charges. The case is pending.