A woman has been sentenced to over eight years in prison after her murder-for-hire plot using bitcoin fell apart. Melody Sasser attempted to use the dark web to hire a hitman to kill an Alabama resident. She paid nearly $ 10,000 in cryptocurrency and tried to make the murder look like an accident. Authorities …
Woman Sentenced to Prison for Bitcoin-Funded Dark Web Murder Plot
A Utah woman, Krista Renae Stone, 23, was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison for attempting to orchestrate a murder-for-hire using the dark web, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Monday. Stone targeted her ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend, arranging to pay $ 5,000 in bitcoin to a website offering hitman services between …