Melody Sasser missed her hiking buddy and was jealous of the new woman in his life, but soon she'll have new buddies in prison.
She is accused of paying a hitman from the dark web to kill the wife of her hiking friend and complained to the website administrator that the hit was taking too long to complete, unsealed court documents revealed. She was arrested in May and charged with murder for hire. Investigators are accusing Sasser of targeting a woman in Prattville, Alabama, who had recently married a man Sasser had met on Match.com.
Sasser allegedly used the screen name "cattree" to order the death of her perceived romantic rival on Online Killers Market, a website hosted on the dark web that offers "hitman for hire" services, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee on May 11.
In the description, which authorities say was shared with them via screenshots, cattree said: "It needs to seem random or accident. or plant drugs, do not want a long investigation."
Sassers' alleged acts occurred over a four-month period, from the start of the year until April 27, 2023, according to the criminal complaint. The quoted amount for Sassers' alleged order: $9,750, to be paid in cryptocurrency.
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She is accused of paying a hitman from the dark web to kill the wife of her hiking friend and complained to the website administrator that the hit was taking too long to complete, unsealed court documents revealed. She was arrested in May and charged with murder for hire. Investigators are accusing Sasser of targeting a woman in Prattville, Alabama, who had recently married a man Sasser had met on Match.com.
Sasser allegedly used the screen name "cattree" to order the death of her perceived romantic rival on Online Killers Market, a website hosted on the dark web that offers "hitman for hire" services, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee on May 11.
In the description, which authorities say was shared with them via screenshots, cattree said: "It needs to seem random or accident. or plant drugs, do not want a long investigation."
Sassers' alleged acts occurred over a four-month period, from the start of the year until April 27, 2023, according to the criminal complaint. The quoted amount for Sassers' alleged order: $9,750, to be paid in cryptocurrency.
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