{"id":103262,"date":"2016-03-07T23:51:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T23:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2016\/03\/07\/former-marine-accused-of-murder-for-hire-plot\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:29:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:29:28","slug":"former-marine-accused-of-murder-for-hire-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/2016\/03\/07\/former-marine-accused-of-murder-for-hire-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Marine accused of murder-for-hire plot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LOUISVILLE\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Posing in an apron last fall on the cover of\u00a0Southern Indiana Living\u00a0as she rolled dough with her 3-year-old in her lap,\u00a0Laura Anne Buckingham looked like the picture of domesticity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the 5-foot-4, 110-pound former Marine who served two tours in Iraq said she was never a &#8220;domestic diva.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She boxed in high school, won a\u00a0Toughman\u00a0contest and rejected a modeling career to prove herself in the Marine Corps, her stepfather said. And even as a baker, she tested the limits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I like to do weird breads,&#8221; Buckingham\u00a0told a\u00a0(Louisville)\u00a0Courier-Journal\u00a0food writer in 2014\u00a0for a story about Bread and Breakfast, her caf\u00e9 and bakery in downtown\u00a0New Albany, Ind.\u00a0&#8220;Because I have never had formal training, I don&#8217;t have a level of appropriateness, and I have no restraints.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She may well have been talking about her life, if allegations against her are true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Buckingham, 29, is sitting in a jail in Roane County, Tennessee, 40 miles west of\u00a0Knoxville, charged with attempted first-degree murder for paying a man she thought was a contract killer to murder a former boyfriend who is the father of her child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to court papers, frustrated with having to make weekly trips from her new home in Tennessee to deliver her son for visits with Bradley Sutherland \u2014 and fearful she might lose custody altogether \u2014 Buckingham allegedly turned to a new boyfriend, Joseph Chamblin, <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">an ex- <\/span>a former Marine sniper who was court-martialed for urinating on the bodies of\u00a0Taliban\u00a0fighters in Afghanistan, and asked if he could make Sutherland &#8220;go away.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At first, Chamblin thought she was joking, according to an incident report. 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But he is determined not to give the story away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I want to formally and publicly reserve the rights to any books, stories, screenplays, movies, TV shows, etc., pertaining to the murder-for-hire case at hand between Laura Buckingham and myself,&#8221; he proclaimed on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Buckingham, who is being held on $150,000 bond, has pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/635929423962898380-laura-buckingham-030716jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-98004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/635929423962898380-laura-buckingham-030716jpg.jpg 800w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/635929423962898380-laura-buckingham-030716jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/635929423962898380-laura-buckingham-030716jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span>Military photos show former Cpl. 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Military publicity photos show her wielding her service rifle in the desert and helping typhoon victims in\u00a0Bangladesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But when she mustered out as a lance corporal and returned to Southern Indiana, where her family had moved, she had &#8220;very bad&#8221; post-traumatic stress disorder, Ward said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sutherland, who met her about five years ago, also said she was &#8220;dealing with some demons&#8221; when she came home, while Kane said she talked about having &#8220;a great deal of concerns about her past in the military.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sutherland said the bakery &#8220;worked its therapy&#8221; on her, as did the love of their child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After starting her baked-goods business from a roadside stand, she moved into a downtown New Albany store in July 2013 and boasted that 600 people came to the grand opening. \u00a0&#8220;The bread has been flying directly out of the oven, our gluten free crowd is expanding and the word is out about our bacon cinnamon rolls,&#8221; she said on the business&#8217; Facebook page. &#8220;We have a dream team here at the bakery.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drama seemed to swirl around Buckingham, some of it involving her suitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After she broke up with Sutherland in July 2013, the next year a man literally knocked down her door to see her while she was entertaining another boyfriend. 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A grand jury investigated but returned no indictment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Buckingham&#8217;s personal Facebook page, where she went by &#8220;Lara Lodus,&#8221; her postings grew bizarre, said William Gimbel, a customer who befriended her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In one, she said, &#8220;Sometimes, the person you&#8217;d take a bullet for turns out to be the one behind the gun.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, Sutherland said she seemed fine the Sunday before her arrest, when he and his fiancee shared a meal with her and their son in New Albany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, she faces 15 years in prison for &#8220;attempting to commit the offense of first-degree murder by hiring and paying another&#8221; to kill him and &#8220;taking a substantial step toward the commission of that offense.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ward, her stepfather, said he hopes the evidence will 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