An Alabama man has been charged with accepting money to kill another man earlier this year then buried his body — inside his pickup truck — in a hole he dug with a backhoe and set it on fire. A Bibb County grand jury indicted 57-year-old John Collum on charges of murder for hire, hindering …
A convicted rapist and his girlfriend were sentenced Thursday after they pleaded guilty to a murder-for-hire plot against the prosecutor and judge in his rape case. Alexander Kise was sentenced in May 2024 to 35 years in prison for the rape conviction. On Thursday, he got an additional 5 to 15 years in prison for …
An Alabama plumber has pleaded guilty to seven counts of murder for hire for trying to hire a hitman to kill his wife and six adult children last year. Mohammad A.H. Mohammed, 64, thought he was hiring someone to “take care of” his family in September 2024, the US Attorney for the Northern District of …
A federal jury last week convicted a Florida man of hiring a hitman to kill a federal prosecutor and an FBI agent and attempting to killing the victims of a cyber harassment case against him before that case went to trial. According to the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, Anthony Brillante …
A Florida man awaiting sentencing after he pleaded guilty to forcing a teenage girl to sign a “sex slave contract” with him in 2021 has now been charged with trying to have her killed before she could testify at the sentencing hearing. Andrew Mustapick, 70, reportedly forced the girl to sign a contract that made …
A New Jersey woman was arrested last week and charged in a murder for hir plot to kill her cop ex-boyfriend and his daughter. According to the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office, a confidential informant told law enforcement on April 3 that Jaclyn Diiorio, 26, had said she wanted to have her ex-boyfriend, a 53-year-old Philadelphia …
An Illinois man has been charged with hiring two men to gun down his estranged wife’s girlfriend last month in what prosecutors called “a personal grievance” killing. Sammy Schafer Jr., 36, was charged with two counts of first degree murder and two counts of soliciation of murder in the death of 32-year-old Portia Rowland on …
A Mississippi brother and sister were sentenced Friday for their roles in a murder-for-hire plot. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Mississippi, evidence presented during the trial showed that 29-year-old Joshua Druid Bryan and 30-year-old Regan Emily Bryan attempted to hire someone to kill their stepfather in order to collect on life …
A 44-year-old Virginia woman has been arrested and charged with engaging in a murder for hire plot that was to also include a robbery. The Henry County Sheriff’s Office revealed few details but said Gennevieve McGhee met with a “confidential source” on Tuesday, and the conversation was recorded. “During the exchange, McGhee allegedly discussed detailed …
Sergio Pino, a prominent South Florida developer, shot himself in the head on July 16, spraying his blood over the bedroom of his waterfront Coral Gables mansion. He was just days away from being arrested for hiring not one but two crews to kill his wife of 32 years before their contentious — and lucrative …
An Alabama plumber was arrested this week and charged with trying to hire a hitman to kill his wife and six adult children. Mohammad A.H. Mohammad, 63, was charged with use of interstate commerce in the commission of murder for hire in federal court, according to WBMA. The Hoover plumber met with a man he …
Pennsylvania authorities filed charges last week against a Uniontown man who allegedly paid a then-14-year-old boy in money and drugs to kill another man last year. The teen, Antonyo Owens, was arrested a few days after the June 6, 2023, murder of Anthony Jones, KDKA reported. But Pennsylvania State Police worked the case for the …
