“I want her s--t cut, with blood just every f--king way,” Joseph White told Linda McNeil, describing how he wanted her to kill his ex-girlfriend Cheneta Yates.
Butch Halley ignored warnings from friends and family that his wife, Sunny Gunn-Halley, had not reformed from her criminal past and might wish him harm.
“I’d love nothing more than to have one of his fingers or an ear in a jar of alcohol,” Kevin Condren told an undercover cop while plotting revenge against James Sobanski.
Justin DeWitt had a cold-blooded plan to wipe out a co-worker's family. When that landed him in jail, he reached out to an undercover posing as a hitman to take out the cop who brought him down the first time.
Upon hearing that his ex-girlfriend, SanDee Jones, was dating a black man, Keith Cote allegedly told Joey Sees, a former Marine, that he wanted to stab her in the heart with an ice pick “so he could watch her die slowly.”
Contract killers risk botching a hit if they see their target as a human being, researchers found in one of the only large-scale studies of hitmen ever.
Dalia Dippolito tried framing her husband, Michael, to get his probation revoked, he said. When that failed, she tried to pay $7,000 to have him killed — but her plan had one problem.
After Joseph Romano was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his million-dollar coin fraud operation, he began plotting his revenge on Judge Joseph Bianco and prosecutor Lara Treinis Gatz.
"There’s no one word for it, but it’s definitely shocking," Meghan Verikas recalled listening to her ex's secretly recorded murder-for-hire plans, while speaking to Oxygen at CrimeCon.
“If it were up to me, I’d have him tied up and then f*cking nipples removed, his dick removed and everything else,” Nancy Mancuso Gelber told a police informant.
Houston veterinarian Valerie McDaniel and her boyfriend Leon Jacob agreed to pay a police informant and an undercover officer almost $20,000 to kill their previous partners.
