A Tennessee woman was arrested this week in an alleged murder-for-hire plot to kill a witness in the murder of her son in November 2022. Ashley Brown, 42, was charged with soliciting first degree murder after she allegedly tried to hire a confidential informant to make the hit, telling the informant she had information about …
Prosecutors say a man charged with killing the husband of a California Highway Patrol captain last year did so as part of a murder-for-hire plot involving the captain and that they intend to seek the death penalty. Cumberland County, Kentucky, prosecutors say that Thomas O’Donnell shot Michael Harding to death “in a conspiracy with the …
A New Jersey man pleaded guilty this week to paying $20,000 in bitcoin to have a 14-year-old boy killed to prevent the teen from testifying against him in a child porn case. John Michael Musbach, 31, exchanged sexually explicit photos and videos with the boy, then 13 and living in New York, until the teen’s …
A Pennyslvania woman has been charged with traveling to New Jersey before Christmas to hire a hitman to kill her ex-husband’s current wife. The Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office says that Marilyn Zhou, 56, says that its Special Investigations Unit learned that Zhou was seeking a hitman for a murder for hire and arranged for her …
A Wisconsin father and son have been arrested in a murder-for-hire plot against the heir to a family estate. The intended victim of the plot is the son of 62-year-old Joseph Anthony Hoppa and brother 38-year-old Jason P. Hopp, who have each been charged with a count of solicitation of firs degree intentional homicide, WBAY …
A Michigan man was charged on Wednesday for his alleged role in a 2020 murder-for-hire plot that led to a woman being shot multiple times. WDIV reported that Clifton Terry III, 31, offered Andre Sims, 25, $10,000 to kill the woman, who Sims shot three times outside a Sterling Heights apartment complex in November 2020. …
Juan Carlos García reportedly paid the equivalent of about $9,000, or 180,000 Mexican pesos, to two hitmen to kill Abril Pérez Sagaón, the mother of his children.
A Florida dentist has been charged in connection with the 2014 murder of his former brother-in-law, a Florida State University law professor. Charlie Adelson was arrested at his home in Broward County and charged with first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and solicitation of murder in the July 2014 shooting death of Dan Markel. The …
A Florida woman has been charged with using a PaycheckProtection Program loan to pay for a hit on a woman she’d been feuding with for years. Transportation Security Administration agent Le’Shonte Jones, 24, was shot and killed last May as she was returning home with her 3-year-old daughter after her shift at Miami International Airport. …
An Alabama man whose brother allegedly gave him a motorcycle to kill his ex-wife surrendered in Texas on Saturday. Central Alabama Crime Stoppers said that Darin Christopher Starr, 54, gave up to a law enforcement officer in Hondo, Texas, at about 1:30 a.m., according to AL.com. Starr was wanted for his part in the fatal …
A New Jersey political consultant on Tuesday pleaded guilty to hiring two men to kill an associate who had previously worked with him on several political campaigns. The victim was Michael Galdieri, who was the son of former state Sen James Galdieri and had been active in Hudson County politics at the time of his …
A Washington man was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison for a botched September 2017 murder-for-hire plot that resulted in the death of his ex-wife’s sister. Kevin Lewis, 34, paid $2,400 to his cousin, Jerradon Phelps, 19, to kill his ex-wife, Amanda Canales. Though Lewis directed Phelps to a home in Everett, he did …
