NJ Man Attempted to Hire a Hitman on the Dark Web

A New Jersey man pleaded guilty to attempting to hire a hitman on the dark web to murder a 14-year-old child.

A screenshot of the murder-for-hire site

According to court records, John Michael Musbach, 31, of New Jersey, paid $20,000 to a fraudulent murder-for-hire site on the darknet to have a child he had sexually exploited killed.
According to the criminal complaint, in the summer of 2015, Musbach exchanged sexually explicit photographs and videos with a 13-year-old victim …

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