Shot in the neck, murder-for-hire: When will Stephanie Linville Perdue go to trial?

Some women ain’t nothing but trouble. No one knows that better than Milton business owner and father, Sean Perdue. 

In 2021, Perdue had a successful business and was a single dad to a young daughter he doted on, Lily. Divorced after 20 years, Perdue was looking for someone to build a life with and help him with his special needs child of whom he had custody.

He thought he found that special someone in Stephanie Linville Perdue, another woman from the Milton area who was a nurse and seemed to be just what the doctor ordered. 

Instead, she shot him by their first wedding anniversary; the bullet went clean through his shoulder and neck. Sean survived and got a restraining order, but she violated it and ended up back behind bars and blamed Sean for it, according to her arrest report. 

That’s when investigators say Stephanie and her new boyfriend, David Bollier, tried to hire inmates at the Santa Rosa County to kill Sean with fentanyl in a failed murder-for-hire plot. The goal was allegedly to take everything he owned and pay the would-be-hitwomen $10,000 for "the job" that was described in code words as a "party for my grandmother" with "party favors."

Stephanie denied the crime. Now more than two and a half years after she was arrested she still hasn’t gone to trial.

Her attorney has yet again asked for another continuance of the trial. It’s the latest in a string of continuances since she was arrested that is frustrating and worrying to Sean, who just wants to move on and get justice after the toxic relationship nearly cost him everything.

Join us for the latest episode of the Gulf Coast Confidential Podcast, “Shot in the neck, murder-for-hire: When will Stephanie Linville Perdue go to trial?”