In August 2023, Homeland Security investigators received a tip from a source that an unknown person, later identified as Murphy, was on the dark web attempting to hire a hitman to kill someone, according to a criminal complaint. — AP
A Texas woman was sentenced to prison after officials said she used the dark web to try to hire a hitman.
Michelle Murphy was given a nine-year prison sentence after she pleaded guilty to one count of murder-for-hire in September 2023, according to a May 9 news release from the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas.
