Journalists Investigating Murder-for-Hire Sites Help Prevent a Bitcoin-Paid Murder
On 2/9/21 at 11:20 AM EST
Journalists uncovered a Columbus, Wisconsin, woman s alleged plot to hire someone over the internet to commit a murder.
Members of the Sun Prairie Police Department were called to a home on January 12 and spoke with the intended victim and three journalists, one of whom told the officials that while investigating a murder-for-hire site on the dark web they found information showing someone wanted to kill the victim, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Madison.
A Columbus, Wisconsin woman has been arrested for allegedly trying to hire a hit man to commit a murder.
A Wisconsin woman allegedly sent photos of the intended victim to the administrator of a contract-murder website and wrote that the man "needs to be killed."
A Wisconsin woman allegedly sent photos of the intended victim to the administrator of a contract-murder website and wrote that the man "needs to be killed."
Kelly Harper was arrested after journalists investigating a murder-for-hire site on the dark web reported her alleged cryptocurrency offer to Wisconsin a.
Kelly Harper, 37, was arrested in Columbus on Friday after she allegedly admitted to the FBI that she used a murder-for-hire site on the dark web to arrange for someone to kill the victim.