Woman charged with trying to hire hitman to kill wife of man she met on Match.com

A woman in the United States has been charged with trying to hire a hitman to kill the wife of her travel companion, whom she met on the website Match.com, writes New York Post.

The woman (47) from Knoxwille in Tennessee is accused of threatening a man and his wife.

She allegedly tracked the woman’s movements using a fitness app and sent real-time updates and information to a fake hitman website, which then tipped off police.

“It must look random or appear to be an accident. Or planted drugs, will not have a lengthy investigation”, the woman is said to have written on the website “Online Killers Market”, on the dark web.

She gave the website about $9,750 in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin on Jan. 11, along with information about the woman and criteria the hitman had to meet to keep the trail cold. The amount corresponds to just under NOK 110,000.

Travel buddies

The man and the now accused woman are said to have matched on the dating site in 2020, and although it is still unclear what kind of relationship they had, they are said to have been traveling companions.

The man told the police that the accused woman even helped him when he was going to walk the “Appalachian Trail”. But the relationship soured in 2022 when the man and his then-fiancée moved to Alabama.

The couple claim the woman followed them to confront them, and when the man told her he was getting married she allegedly said:

– I hope you fall off a cliff and die.

Not satisfied with the service

The prosecution claims that the woman became active on the website “Online Killers Market” in December and that she often expressed her frustration that no hitman had taken the job she had posted.

She is said to have become so angry that she finally took her complaints to the administrator of the website.

“Have been waiting for 2 months and 11 days and the job is not done. 2 weeks ago you said “The work had been done and will be completed within a week”. The job is still not complete. If it has to be assigned to someone else, it will be done. What is the delay, when will it be done?” the woman must have written according to the prosecution.

When told the hitman turned down the job because it was “too risky,” the woman began posting information about her intended victim from the fitness app Strava, including her walking routes and routines.

The woman was arrested on May 18 and is still in custody and will appear in court on Thursday.

If she is convicted, she could face up to 10 years in prison.