Murder-For-Hire

A Wisconsin woman who had a murder-for-hire plot foiled when the intended killer worked as a police informant was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison.

A man in California organized a murder of a doctor who botched foot treatment for his wife. Now, the elderly man faces decades in prison for murder.

A Louisiana man is accused of attempting to order a hit on his business partner in a foiled murder-for-hire plot, authorities said.

A woman who tried to hire a hitman to kill her ex-husband was sentenced to prison. She agreed to pay $5,000 to have him murdered, prosecutors said.

An alleged hired hit man in Arizona is accused of shooting the wrong target in a botched murder-for-hire plot, authorities said. The victim survived the attack.

Four men were indicted in federal court after they allegedly conspired to kidnap and kill two people in Nashville, federal prosecutors said.

Sometimes when people want to kill, they will turn to others for help to murder. These cases of murder-for-hire were unbelievable, but many were unsuccessful.

Two people have been charged in connection to a 1998 cold-case homicide in Virginia. The victim was found dead in a bedroom. There was no forced entry.

The murder trial has begun in the case of a Florida woman who was murdered after alleged hitmen kidnapped her — and then realized they had the wrong person.

A Mississippi woman is accused of trying to hire a hitman using Bitcoin on the internet to have someone killed. Prosecutors announced her federal charges.

A former NYPD officer tried to have her estranged husband and boyfriend's teenage daughter killed in a murder-for-hire plot, federal officials said.

A woman in Wisconsin was sentenced to federal prison for a murder-for-hire plot. She offered $5,000 on the dark web to have another person killed.

A Texas woman allegedly orchestrated her husband’s murder by falsely convincing her boyfriend she was the victim of abuse, federal prosecutors said.

A college student in Washington paid $5,000 on the dark web to have a woman killed, federal investigators say. The woman was the wife of a man the student had an affair with.

A Colorado lawyer and animal activist was sentenced to prison in Colorado for hiring someone to kill her ex. The convicted blamed others for her crimes.

A New Jersey man is accused of trying to hire hit men to kill a trio of people, including his ex-girlfriend. He now faces charges in connection to the murder-for-hire plot.

The man known as the "Tiger King" had his federal prison sentenced tossed. Though he remains behind bars in the plot to murder Carol Baskin.

A Louisiana woman allegedly solicited four teens to kill her ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend in a plot that failed after one hitman bailed, authorities said.

A Florida man faces federal charges for an alleged murder-for-hire plot. One would-be assassin was found dead, but the suspect continued in the plot, feds say.

A man behind held in jail in connection to the beating and stabbing of a woman is now accused of trying to hire someone to kill the same victim, Florida police say.

A Milwaukee man who was charged with murder in 2020 is accused of trying to hire a hitman to kill his victim's father, who witnessed identified him to police.

FBI says a California man tried to hire a group on the dark web to kill a woman he briefly dated. He paid thousands of dollars and demanded proof of the death.

A man in Tennessee faces federal charges for allegedly paying someone to kill his wife. Investigators say they stopped the murder thanks to a tip from the BBC.

A convicted murderer in Detroit allegedly tried to hire a person to kill his ex-girlfriend. The suspect now faces federal charges for the alleged plot.

A Rhode Island man is owed money for a job and wasn't paid, according to the FBI. He then hired someone to commit murder, prosecutors claim.

The plot targeted the victim of a previous crime, according to Georgia police. All suspects are being held in the Forsyth County Jail without bond and charged with conspiracy to commit murder.

A Missouri realtor is facing charges for allegedly attempting to have someone kill her ex-mother-in-law and asking them to "make it look like an accident." A court has ruled she has to undergo a mental health exam.

A mom, daughter and her boyfriend allegedly participated in a murder-for-hire plot that included strangling a victim and lacing his oatmeal with fentanyl.

Police say the wife of a pastor and another man conspired to murder the religious leader. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations charged the suspects this week.

A Missouri realtor tried to put a hit on her former mother-in-law for $1,500, according to prosecutors. The woman is a well-known real estate agent in the Lake of the Ozark area.

Jennifer Emmi was already facing 16 felony and 16 misdemeanor counts prior to her arrest in Colorado. New details reveals her alleged efforts in murder-for-hire.