HAVERHILL – Two people charged last year in connection with the stabbing death of a Vermont man will be arraigned later this month in Grafton County Superior Court.

Amber Talbot, 18, and Timothy Smith, 24, will be arraigned Sept. 28 in the death last October of Christopher Gray, 25, of Groton, Vt.

Prosecutors sought waivers of indictment for Talbot, Smith and Anthony Howe, 19, last week. A court date has not been set for Howe.

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The fourth person charged in Gray's death, Michael Robie, 19, filed court papers last week seeking a new court-appointed lawyer. Robie, identified by Talbot as the father of her son born three weeks before Gray's body was discovered, was serving time at the Grafton County House of Correction at the time of Gray's death last year.

Authorities allege that the four conspired for nearly a month, plotting Gray's death, via telephone calls to Robie, which were recorded at the jail.

In motions filed last week seeking the waivers of indictment, prosecutors allege that between Sept. 17 and Oct. 8, Talbot, Smith and Howe talked with Robie "about killing Christopher Gray."

In those weeks, according to court papers, Smith and Howe "obtained gloves to be used during the killing of Christopher Gray."

The motions further allege that on Oct. 6 to Oct. 7, the three brought Gray to the house on Lime Kiln Road, North Haverhill, where Talbot, Smith and Howe lived, and after Talbot left, the three men went outside and stood around a fire.

The court papers say Smith "prepared to kill (Gray) by arming himself with a knife" and that both men put on gloves before Howe grabbed Gray "around the neck strangling him" and holding him as Smith "used one of two knives to stab (Gray) multiple times," using a second knife after the first one bent.

The court papers allege that Smith and Howe "attempted to destroy" the knives and gloves by throwing them into a fire and burying Gray's body on the Lime Kiln Road property.

"On or about Oct. 7, Michael Robie called Amber Talbot and told her to tell Anthony Howe thank you' for what Howe had done for him," according to the court papers.

Howe and Smith are charged with conspiracy to commit murder, hindering apprehension and second-degree murder. Talbot is charged with conspiracy and second-degree murder.