Woman Pleads Guilty to Hiring a Hitman

A Tennessee woman agreed to plead guilty to attempting to hire a hitman for more than $9,000 on the dark web.

Melody Sasser

Melody Sasser, 47, of Knoxville, Tennessee, admitted she accessed the dark web murder-for-hire site "Online Killer's Market" and attempted to hire a hitman to kill the wife of a man she had met on a dating site.
HSI investigators received information regarding Sasser's murder-for-hire plot from a foreign law enforcement agency in April 2023. The information included …

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