A Tennessee woman tried to hire an online hit man for nearly $10,000 to kill the wife of a man she met on the dating site Match.com, prosecutors say.
According to court documents, Melody Sasser, 48, used a dark web site known as the “Online Killers Market” to hire a hit man for a “job” last year.
The website allegedly offers services such as hired hitmen, hacking, kidnapping, blackmail, acid attacks resulting in disfigurement and sexual assault. WVLT reported.
Using the username “cattree,” Sasser messaged the website administrator about hiring a hit man, stressing that she would pay $9,750 in Bitcoin to do the “job” and that it needed to look like an accident to avoid suspicion of criminal activity.
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Melody Sasser, 48, tried to hire an online hit man to kill the wife of a man she met on the dating site Match.com. (Knox County Jail)
“I do not want a lengthy investigation as it appears to be either a coincidence, accident or drug-related offense. She recently began living with her new husband,” Sasser wrote to the administrator.
The woman she wanted to kill, identified only as JW, lives in Prattville, Alabama, with her husband, DW, who she met on Match.com before they were married.
DW said Sasser helped him hike along the Appalachian Mountains before moving to Alabama and marrying his now-wife.
According to court documents, Sasser used technology to disguise his voice and left threatening voicemails on JW's cell phone.
According to court documents, Sasser had been in discussions with administrators of “Online Killers Market” for two months over frustrations about “work” not being completed.
Melody Susser used a dark website called “Online Killers Market” to hire a hitman. (iStock)
“I've been waiting 2 months and 11 days and the work is not done,” she wrote to the manager. “Two weeks ago you said the work would start and be finished in a week. The work is still not done. Should I assign it to someone else? Will it be completed? Why is it delayed? When will it be completed?” [SIC]”
According to court documents, Sasser provided photos and location information for JW in his correspondence with the website.
Sasser was allegedly able to track the couple's location using an app called Strava, which connects to Garmin watches and shares fitness data.
On one occasion, she notified the administrator of the “Online Killers Market” that JW had left the house for a two-mile walk.
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According to court documents, Melody Sasser had been in discussions with administrators of “Online Killers Market” for more than two months amid frustration that her “work” wasn't getting done. (iStock)
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However, the plan failed, Sasser was arrested and his home was searched.
When police searched her home, they found a diary listing several other hit man's websites, handwritten records of her interactions with “online murder markets,” and bundles of cash tacked under Post-it notes with Bitcoin addresses.
A federal grand jury indicted Sasser last June on charges of using a facility of interstate commerce to commit murder-for-hire.
Sasser accepted a plea agreement Wednesday, receiving a sentence of 100 months in prison and must pay more than $5,300 in restitution to the victim.
