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Tennessee woman accused of hiring hitman on dark web to kill her hiking buddy's wife
A Tennessee woman is accused of paying a hitman from the dark web to kill the wife of a hiking buddy she met on Match.com and stalking the woman's whereabouts on a fitness app, court documents reveal.
Melody Sasser apparently didn’t like it when her friend, identified in recently unsealed court documents by the initials D.W., told her he was getting married last fall.
“I hope you both fall off a cliff and die,” she told the man, according to an affidavit dated May 11.
Sasser was charged with murder for hire in U.S. District Court for Eastern Tennessee last month and faces up to 10 years in prison if she is convicted.
According to the affidavit, an outside law enforcement agency tipped off the Homeland Security Investigations unit in Birmingham, Alabama, about the alleged plot in April.
Investigators were given messages between an online user, “cattree,” and the administrator of the dark web site Online Killers Market, which offers hitmen for hire, court documents say.
Screenshots from the site showed that “cattree” ordered a murder for hire on Jan. 11, according to the criminal complaint.
Officials say she shared the name of the target, an address, the equivalent of $9,750 in bitcoin and a description saying: “it needs to seem random or accident. Or plant drugs, do not want a long investigation. She recently moved in with her new husband.”
“Cattree” also uploaded a photo of the target, identified by the initials J.W., the documents say.
Investigators alerted police in Prattville, Alabama, where the target lived, and sent patrols to the victim’s home.
When J.W. was notified of the alleged threat, she named “Sasser as a suspect" and said Sasser and her husband were hiking friends before he moved to Alabama, the document says.
D.W. told investigators that he and Sasser met on the dating website Match.com and that she helped him with his Appalachian Trail hike by making reservations at hostels and rest points and watching his vehicle when he was gone, according to the affidavit.
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