Molly Daniels of Leander pleaded guilty Tuesday in Williamson County state district court in Georgetown to insurance fraud and hindering apprehension in one of the more bizarre criminal cases authorities have seen in a while.

The chain of events that landed Daniels in court began a few weeks after her husband was supposedly burned beyond recognition in a car wreck.

That, prosecutors said, was when Daniels introduced her four-year-old son to her new boyfriend, Jake Gregg, who, it turns out, looked a lot like her dead husband, Clayton Wayne Daniels, but with black hair.

The resemblance was no coincidence.

Prosecutors say she had plotted with her husband to use the corpse of an 81-year-old woman the husband had exhumed to fake his death.

She faces probation to 20 years in prison.

Her husband, who is very much alive, remains jailed in neighboring Burnet County pending trial on arson charges.

A prosecutor says the Leander couple acted out of greed to collect on a $110,000 life insurance policy.