SCHELLSBURG — A Duncansville woman is facing 32 felony charges, including four counts of attempted solicitation, conspiracy to commit murder, after allegedly offering a Lewistown man cash and drugs to kill her estranged wife and the woman’s family.

Heather Ann Dibert, 43, was arrested Wednesday at a home along Donnertown Road after state police called in the Special Emergency Response Team to assist when she refused to come to the door. Dibert eventually came out of the home and was taken into custody without incident, Tpr. Christopher Fox said.

Dibert was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Tonya M. Osman in Schellsburg later Wednesday, and was remanded to the Bedford County Correctional Facility on $1 million bail. Her preliminary hearing is scheduled for Dec. 20.

In addition to the solicitation to commit murder charges, she faces:

– 12 felony counts of conspiracy to aggravated arson – person present inside property.

– Six felony counts of conspiracy to aggravated arson – bodily injury.

– Six felony counts of criminal solicitation to aggravated assault – attempts to cause serious bodily injury or causes injury with extreme indifference.

– One felony count of criminal solicitation to attempt, solicitation, conspiracy to commit murder.

– One felony count of criminal attempt to attempt, solicitation, conspiracy to commit murder.

– One felony count of criminal solicitation – arson endangering property – reckless endangerment of inhabited buildings.

– One felony count of solicitation.

– One misdemeanor count of criminal solicitation – criminal mischief/damage property intent, reckless, or negligently.

– Six misdemeanor counts of criminal solicitation – criminal homicide.

According to the affidavit of probable cause, the charges stem from a weekslong investigation into an Oct. 28 fire, when a Napier Township, Bedford County, resident called police about 12:35 a.m. to report a small blaze on her side deck, according to police reports. When officers arrived, they saw melted siding on the home and damage to several items on the deck, at which point they contacted a state fire marshal.

The fire marshal removed the damaged items from the deck and found a partially melted plastic bottle containing a partially burnt paper towel and a “small amount of clear liquid.” He reported that the damaged items were only melted on the sides facing the plastic bottle and “determined this area to be the point of origin of the fire.”

During questioning, one of the victim’s parents said she was in her first-floor bedroom about 12:15 a.m. when she heard a thump outside. Upon seeing smoke and fire on the side deck, she woke her husband, who retrieved a fire extinguisher while she called 911. Her husband said he was able to put out the fire on his own.

The couple confirmed that there were six people inside the home at the time of the fire, including three minors, court documents show.

According to statements, one of the home’s residents was in a relationship with Dibert for more than a year and, since September 2022, Dibert “continually threatened to kill” the victim, the victim’s children and the victim’s father.

Police reports show that on Oct. 18, the Freedom Township Police Department removed the victim from Dibert’s home for her safety after receiving a welfare check request from the victim’s father. Dibert had terroristic threats charges filed against her when she appeared at the police department that same day threatening to kill the victim’s father. Police records show that the victim had told Dibert that she was leaving her.

During an interview with the victim, she told officers that Dibert threatened to have Zachery Sellers, who is also charged in relation to this case, “do stuff to her” if she left Dibert.

According to cellphone data obtained through search warrants, on the night of Oct. 27, Dibert and Sellers met in the Port Matilda area about 7:50 p.m. before the two drove separately to the area where the victim lived, arriving about 9:10 p.m.

Dibert’s phone then travels south toward Martinsburg, West Virginia, where it remained for several hours. Her phone searches indicate that she was looking for Club Lust. Sellers’ phone remained in the area of the victim’s home. The data shows Sellers driving around the general area until shortly after midnight on Oct. 28, court documents state.

Sellers’ phone was in the immediate area of the victims’ Tulls Hill home for several minutes, including at the time the victims called 911, the report states.

Investigating officers reported that “this data is consistent with Dibert taking Sellers to the immediate area of the victim’s residence, showing him where the residence was located and then leaving to establish an alibi at Club Lust in West Virginia.”

Sellers, 34, was arrested Tuesday in Lewistown on a felony warrant in connection with the case. During an interview with state police in Lewistown, Sellers allegedly confessed that Dibert led him to the residence where the victim was living with her parents and offered him drugs and money to burn it down. Sellers said he contacted Dibert about the home being occupied by numerous people, including children. Dibert told him to proceed and “kill them all,” the affidavit states.

Sellers’ case is listed as inactive, but his preliminary arraignment is scheduled for Dec. 15 in front of Osman.

Sellers is facing 25 felonies, including:

– Six counts of aggravated arson – bodily injury.

– Six counts of aggravated arson – person present inside property.

– Six counts of arson – inhabited building or structure.

– Six counts of criminal attempt to aggravated assault – attempts to cause serious bodily injury or causes injury with extreme indifference.

– One count of arson endangering property – reckless endangerment of inhabited buildings.

He is also facing one misdemeanor count of criminal mischief – catastrophe and six misdemeanor counts of criminal attempt – criminal homicide.