Dad sought hitman on dark web to kill the parents of five children he adopted, US feds say

Police tracked down the person hiding behind the pseudonym – a 62-year-old German man – who was convicted in 2015. But once he had been caught, investigators continued to use his profile to unmask other paedophiles and users of illegal child sex images. — Image by Freepik

After adopting five children, a man wanted their biological parents dead and arranged for their killings on the dark web, according to federal court documents.

In visiting a website “dedicated to arranging contract killings,” Christopher Pence sought a hitman who could make the New York couple’s deaths look like an accident or “a mugging-gone-wrong” in the summer of 2021, court documents say.