Slain doctor's wife, Donna Moonda, heads to Connecticut prison

A Mercer County woman sentenced to life in prison for her conviction on charges of hiring her lover to kill her wealthy husband will serve her sentence at a minimum-security federal prison in Connecticut.

Donna Moonda, 48, of Hermitage, has been sent to the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, a facility for female offenders in southwestern Connecticut, about 70 miles from New York City. Moonda's lawyers had asked that she be housed at a prison in West Virginia so she would be closer to her family.

Moonda was convicted of hiring Damian Ray Bradford, 26, a Beaver County drug dealer, to kill her husband, Dr. Gulam Moonda. The 69-year-old physician was shot and killed May 13, 2005, along the Ohio Turnpike near Cleveland. Bradford is serving a 17 1/2-year sentence at a federal prison in Kentucky.