Virginia Woman Attempted to Hire a Hitman

A Virginia woman pleaded guilty to orchestrating a murder-for-hire plot by paying for a hitman on the dark web.

According to court documents, 27-year-old Annie Nicole Ritenour of Culpeper, Virginia, admitted she deposited $3,200 into a murder-for-hire site on the dark web and placed an order. She had disagreed with someone and she was looking for a hitman to murder him.
In mid-September 2021, the FBI reportedly received information from someone connected to a fraudulent murder-for-hire website on the …

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