TN - Melody Sasser charged with attempting to hire hitman to kill wife of man she met on dating site - June 5, 2023

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'I hope you both fall off a cliff and die': Woman allegedly hired hitman to kill new wife of 'hiking friend' she met on Match.com

Melody Sasser is facing up to 10 years in prison for allegedly trying to hire a hitman to kill the wife of a man she met on Match.com.

lawandcrime.com

A 47-year-old woman in Tennessee has been arrested for allegedly trying to hire a hitman from the dark web to kill the wife of a man she met on Match.com.

Federal authorities took Melody Sasser into custody on May 16 and charged her with one count of murder for hire, court documents reviewed by Law&Crime show.

According to a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, the federal investigation into Sasser began in late April, when authorities received information indicating that an adult woman had been named as a target in a murder-for-hire plot. The information, which came from a “foreign law enforcement agency,” allegedly showed messages from a person using the name “cattree” on a dark web hosted site known as the Online Killers Market, or “OKM,” to solicit the murder of a woman married to retired Air Force veteran David Wallace.

The name of the alleged target in the deadly scheme is redacted from court documents.

OKM, a now-defunct scam site, claimed to have more than 12,000 registered members across the globe and purports to allow users to submit detailed “orders” for future murders, federal authorities say. The person submitting the “order” then receives a quote from an alleged hitman who can then be directly messaged.

Sasser had allegedly provided an initial payment to the hitman in Bitcoin even before placing the order, the criminal complaint says. Authorities followed the money trail from the Bitcoin transfers and learned that Sasser had purchased the digital currency and transferred the funds to potential killers on OKM, per the affidavit.

If convicted, Sasser faces up to 10 years in a federal prison. She is currently scheduled to appear in court on Thursday.

 

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Grand Jury Indicts Knoxville Woman Previously Arrested In Murder-For-Hire Plot

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The tipoff from the foreign agency contained messages between a user and administrator of a site on the “dark web” known as Online Killers Market, which “purports to offer ‘hitman for hire’ type services,” the complaint says. The site allows users to submit an “order” for specific services, including “full intended victim details,” according to the complaint.

Screenshots taken from the site show that the order for the murder-for-hire in Sasser’s case was placed on January 11, according to the complaint.

The user account “cattree,” which authorities believe belonged to Sasser, describes in detail how she wanted the murder to be handled. “It needs to seem random or accident. or plant drugs, do not want a long investigation,” the user wrote, according to the complaint.

The user also uploaded a photo of the intended victim, identified only with by the initials J and W in the criminal complaint, and details about her home, vehicle, and work schedule. Authorities believe Sasser used the hiking app “Strava” to track the woman and her husband’s movements, even sharing details on the dark web about a two-mile hike the intended victim had taken. The woman was living in Prattville, Alabama, at the time, according to the complaint.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/10/us/tennessee-woman-hitman-for-hire-trnd/index.html

 

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