A woman in Tennessee paid to hire a hitman to kill the fiancee of a man she met on an online dating site, ABC News reported.
Melody Sasser is accused of transferring about $10,000 in bitcoin to a site named "Online Killers Market" to order the murder of the man's wife.
She'd met the man on Match.com and they had been for hikes together, ABC reported. But she soon learned that he planned to move out of state with the woman who he was soon to marry. That's when she turned to the "dark web," using the pseudonym "cattree" in her online request for a hitman.
"It needs to seem random or [an] accident. Or plant drugs, do not want a long investigation," Sasser posted on Jan. 11, police say.
The couple was also harassed by Sasser, who showed up unannounced at their new home in Alabama in the fall of 2022. "I hope you both fall off a cliff and die," Sasser allegedly told the couple. The woman the man planned to marry also reported that both sides of her car had been "gashed" by an unknown person.
When her target was still alive after a few months, Sasser messaged the website, saying, "I have waited for two months and 11 days and the job is not completed... What is the delay. When will it be done."
On May 18, Sasser was arrested.
