Perdue was sentenced to 60 years for trying to hire someone to kill her husband. A sentence is not a finding on the pending battery case.

A sentence after conviction is the court's judgment on those counts. It is not a finding on the pending aggravated-battery case, and it is not a completed homicide. On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, Stephanie Perdue, 54, of Pace, Florida, was sentenced to 60 years in prison for trying to hire someone to kill her husband. She was convicted in July of two counts of conspiracy to commit first-degree premeditated murder and two counts of solicitation to commit first-degree murder.

In April 2022, Perdue was arrested for shooting her husband in the throat at Little Man's Paint & Body on Myrtle Road. He survived. She was charged with aggravated battery and released on a $100,000 bond. After that release, Sheriff Bob Johnson said she met David Bollier. Jail talk led to undercover controlled calls. Perdue promised an undercover investigator $10,000 to kill her husband, and both were charged in the murder-for-hire plot. Those reported steps are how the conspiracy and solicitation case was built. They are not a finding that her husband was killed.

The state dropped Bollier's charges, including conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, in December 2023. A dismissal of his case is not a dismissal of hers. Perdue is due back in court in November on the separate aggravated-battery charge from the shooting. That hearing is still ahead. The 60-year sentence is the judgment on the July conspiracy and solicitation convictions. It does not decide the battery count. On the still-pending aggravated-battery charge, she is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.