Man paid hitman in Bitcoin to make planned killings look like botched robbery, US feds say

On the website, Pence paid US$16,000 (RM74,648) worth of Bitcoin to an administrator and wanted the killings made to seem like a ‘botched robbery’ or an ‘accident’, officials said. — AFP Relaxnews

A Utah man pleaded guilty to hiring a hitman and trying to arrange the killing of two people in New York, federal officials said.

Between July 2021 and August 2021, Christopher Pence, 43, of Cedar City, went to the dark web to arrange for a hitman to kill two people in Rensselaer County, about 160 miles north of New York City, according to a Dec 6 news release from the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York.