Convict’s plan to kill Obama

AN ESCAPED convict allegedly murdered an elderly woman as part of a bizarre plot aimed at assassinating US President Barack Obama after a cross-country killing spree, court records showed.

Maybelle Schein, 75, was discovered with her throat cut in the bedroom of her South Dakota home on Saturday afternoon.

Police tracked him down in Madison, Wisconsin.

James Vernon McVay, 41, told police his plan was to kill someone in Sioux Falls and steal their vehicle, then drive to Madison where he would “either break into another house to kill the occupants or would ambush and kill a Madison (WI) police officer to steal the offer’s guns.”

He planned to keep killing people and stealing cars until he made it to Washington where he would “use a rifle to kill the president.”

McVay has been charged with premeditated murder and burglary.