Woman hired hitman to kill wife of man she met online, court documents say

 

Woman hired hitman to kill wife of man she met online, court documents say

 

We even found “testimonials” pages that were just links to murders covered in the news. We were able to find follow-up articles on these cases in which local gang-members were arrested. Knoxville, tenn. (wvlt/gray news) - a tennessee woman is accused of hiring an online hitman to kill the wife of a man she met on match.Com, according to court documents obtained by wvlt news.

 

"A $9.20 website had just prevented three murders... So, that was the case that really started it all." "The website has prevented, essentially, 150 murders at this point," innes told abc7 news. If convicted, garcia faces up to 10 years in prison, according to a news release from the us attorney’s office for the middle district of tennessee.

 

As the researchers collected ads from open web forums, shops, crypto markets, and the dark web, it quickly became clear that most of them must be fake. "You'd find these hitmen advertisements, mostly as shops, or occasionally in crypto markets, but they overwhelmingly just seemed like they can't be real," holt said. "If I were a scammer or a criminal, this seems like excellent passive income, where you put the ad out, and even if only one person pays you every three months, you could be making $2,000 to $10,000, depending on how much you charge to do nothing." earlier this year, the european union police agency europol, working alongside italian police, arrested a man suspected of hiring a killer on the dark web. The suspect allegedly paid roughly $10,000 worth of bitcoin to have his ex-girlfriend killed.

 

In one instance, an email address from one of the adverts was also found on a popular hacker forum, which raised an interesting question. "If we want to believe that these are legitimate hitmen, is it a hitman who's also a hacker? But more than likely, the easiest answer is, it's probably a hacker running a side gig to make some money," holt said. Holt, whose research focuses on hacking, malware, and other cyber crimes, co-authored a research paper looking into about two dozen of these adverts between 2018 and 2019. Since then, he says there hasn't been a noticeable change in the number of hitman adverts on the dark web. "Some of the sites themselves are up and down anyway, just as you might expect with the dark web […] but nothing today would suggest there's been a wholesale closure of these markets." the department of justice said garcia was charged on april 13 with the use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire.

 

A bay area-based joke website has hire a hitman ended up preventing about 150 murder-for-hires; the most recent case was a michigan woman targeting her ex-husband. Garcia was charged with use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire. On wednesday, garcia met the agent in a park where the agent provided him with a fictional “target package”. The agent also paid garcia $2,500, supposedly the first of two installments. Gamaliel soza, 18, was arrested monday and is accused of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and unlawful use of a communications device. Paez is charged with first-degree solicitation of murder and unlawful use of a communications device, the affidavit says.

 

The hitmen have documentation and contacts to obtain visas and passports where it is almost impossible to stop the entry of these characters to the main countries and cities of the world. The investigation discovered that one person was running multiple dark-web sites, and had a team of programmers and online marketers to create the perception that the organizations were genuine, trustworthy, and efficient. Ulbrich will spend the rest of his life in prison for money laundering, computer hacking, and conspiracy to traffic narcotics. There has never been a murder definitively attributed to dark-web hitmen. Taking part in a consultation call with a hitman, however, would almost certainly be grounds for an attempted murder charge, or conspiracy at the very least. Screenshots in the filing show sasser, under the username “cattree,” messaging a website administrator about hiring someone to do a job and offering $9,750 in payment through bitcoin.

 

Paez was arrested tuesday on charges of soliciting murder and unlawful use of a communications device. She was given a $15,000 bond and ordered to stay away from the child. After helen’s arrest in 2010, innes went back to a relatively normal life. He never planned on being a detective, or a criminal catcher, or whatever it was that he was doing when posing to be a person who could procure assassins online. He was just a man with a wacky website name who happened to intervene in a crime. Ms. Wilson said these sites took attention from the real crime being committed on the dark net, like the drug markets and the sites selling the sensitive personal information of millions of americans.