Utah Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Hire a Hitman

A Utah man pleaded guilty to trying to hire a hitman on a dark web murder-for-hire site to murder two people.

Christopher Pence, 43, of Utah, admitted he paid approximately $16,000 in bitcoin to the administrator of a murder-for-hire site as payment for a hit on a couple. Pence and the couple conflicted over the custody of children he and his family had adopted from the couple.
In September 2021, an informant sent the FBI chatlogs acquired from an undisclosed …

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