Former California equestrian Tatyana Remley died by suicide shortly after being released from prison, where she served time for hiring a hitman to kill her husband. She was 44. The San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed her death on Thursday, December 18, was ruled a suicide by gunshot.
Remley gained national attention in 2023 after being convicted in a murder-for-hire plot targeting her estranged husband, Mark Remley. Authorities said she met with an undercover officer and offered to pay to have her husband killed. She pleaded guilty to solicitation to commit murder and was sentenced to three years and eight months in state prison.
The case began after a house fire at the couple’s Del Mar ranch prompted an investigation. Arson investigators found three firearms and ammunition, leading to her arrest on firearms-related charges. Authorities later launched a murder-for-hire investigation after receiving a tip that Remley was trying to hire someone to kill her husband.
“She provided detailed information on how she wanted her husband killed and his body disposed of,” the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department said at the time. Remley allegedly brought firearms and money as a down payment for the killing. The husband survived, and a mutual friend reported that Remley offered $2 million to carry out the plot.
The couple had married in 2011 but had separated and reconciled multiple times before the fire. Mark Remley later told The New York Post that Tatyana contacted him after her release from prison, and they briefly rekindled their relationship. He claimed she confessed to setting the fire and that he tipped off authorities based on recordings of her statements.
Remley had been scheduled to return to court for arson charges related to the house fire on March 3, 2026.
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