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 …
A Florida man is in jail on federal charges after he allegedly tried to arrange the murder of his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend. Ryan Hadeed, 43, sent a letter in September to someone he thought could handle the job he had in mind, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida. “I …
A volunteer reserve police officer in southeastern Tennessee has been been charged with solicitation to murder after the potential target of the “hit” read text messages on his phone when he allegedly passed out drunk. Jerry McDonald, 49, also served as EMS special operations manager for Life Force, a medical helicopter company operating in southeastern …
A Michigan woman pleaded guilty last week to trying to hire a hitman to kill her ex-husband — using a fake “Rent-A-Hitman” website. Wendy Lynn Wein, 52, faces up to nine years in prison when she is sentenced on January 13, 2022, WJBK reports. Wein used a pseudonym but gave her real contact information when …
A Mississippi woman was arrested by federal agents Tuesday for allegedly trying to hire a hitman over the internet. Jessica Leeann Sledge, 39, has been charged with use of interstate commerce in the commission of a murder-for-hire, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi. Sledge made her first court appearance …
A Florida woman was charged this week in a murder-for-hire scheme allegedly targeting her ex-husband. Gretchen Buselli, aka Gretchen Yarbrough, was arrested Thursday after she allegedly dropped off a $5,000 down payment on the hit earlier in the week, the US Attorney for the Northern District of Florida said. The investigation began in June when …
A Missouri woman was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly fatally shooting her boyfriend in 2004. Alice Weiss, 65, is accused of shooting James Summers, 47, in the head and back with a .22-caliber handgun. Summers was found deceased in the driveway of his Dittmer home, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Authorities have not said …
A 38-year-old Wisconsin woman is being held on a $1 million bail after she allegedly offered a police informant $500 to kill another person. A criminal complaint filed this week in Winnebago County says Melissa A. Smith told the informant the person she wanted killed “had told police [Smith] was selling drugs, had urinated on …
A New Jersey mother awaiting trial for the murder of her toddler son in 2019 has now been charged in a murder-for-hire plot along with her boyfriend. Acting Camden County Prosecutor Jill S. Mayer and Gloucester Township Police Chief David Harkins said that Heather Reynolds, 43, and Jeffrey Callahan, 44, have each been charged with …
On Wednesday, a Texas man appeared on a U.K. talk show to recount how he faked his own death in 2015 to prove that his wife was plotting to kill him. Ramon Sosa told ITV’s “This Morning” that friction between him and his wife, Maria, started several years into their marriage as she would always …
