            I.     Background

       In 1995, when he was 21 years old and she was 16 years old, Harriman met
D.H. and began a romantic relationship with her. By the end of the year, they were
living together. They had a tumultuous relationship; Harriman was jealous and
controlling and began physically abusing D.H. In the summer of 1996, D.H. moved
back in with her mother. Harriman then came to the house and kidnapped D.H. at
knifepoint. He repeatedly hit her, yelled at her, and cursed her. At one point,
Harriman again held the knife to her throat and said he was going to contact a friend
to hurt her. Eventually they ended up at aand choked her, leaving bruises. He was convicted
of simple domestic assault. After this incident, although they continued to have sex
on occasion, Harriman and D.H. never fully resumed their relationship, and they
divorced in 2009. They have two children together.

       In 2011, Harriman was convicted in federal court of two counts of being a
felon in possession of a firearm. The court sentenced him to a term of imprisonment,
and he began serving his sentence in the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.
While there, Harriman often complained to a fellow inmate about D.H. On multiple
occasions, Harriman told this inmate that he wanted to find someone to kill D.H. and
her then-boyfriend. In one conversation, he referred to his children as “collateral
damage.”

      