A Georgia mother who was the target of a $25,000 murder plot hatched on the dark web by her respected doctor fiancé is still letting her young daughter speak to her from prison.
Tonya became aware of her husband-to-be’s sinister plot when she was hospitalized in May 2022 after breaking her ankle at an event at her children’s school.
Nurses pulled the 37-year-old man from Wang’s bedside and forced him to meet with a team of FBI agents in the hospital chapel, where they showed him evidence that Wang, 52, had beaten her. she told the Daily Mail.
“‘You’re a victim, that’s what I’m telling you,'” she recalled the agent telling her.
“‘There’s the suspect. The suspect is sitting in that room.’
“I just want you to understand. We have a duty to warn you that you have been located and that money has been exchanged, and that’s why we’re here.”
Agents showed Tonya, whose last name was withheld, messages her alcoholic husband had posted on the dark web, including her photo and license plate number.
one They wanted the killing to look like an “accident.”
Federal agents discovered the plot after an uninvolved civilian browsed a dark web forum and tipped off the FBI.
“What was most shocking to me was the fact that he never instructed me to make sure my daughter was not a passenger in the car before doing it,” Tonya told the Daily Mail. Ta.
“Our daughter would have been strapped into a car seat, watching her mother bleed to death.”
The two met at a resort in Mississippi where Tonya worked, and Tonya left the Magnolia State for Georgia in 2016.
“I was embarrassed that I had given up everything in my life and moved here with him,” she told British media.
According to authorities, Wang sent $8,000 worth of Bitcoin as a 50% down payment to the job market, but accidentally sent it to the wrong cryptocurrency wallet.
Two days later, he sent another $8,000 to the correct person, who confirmed receipt.
The hitman then asked Wang how he wanted to carry out the murder and whether he wanted it to look like “an accident or a normal shooting.”
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Wang replied, “It’s better to have an accident.” On April 29, 2022, he transferred another $8,000 from the escrow account and asked, “How quickly should I send it?” [the] Will you finish your work?
“Is there a way to check progress? What if someone is in my place?” he wrote.
A few weeks later, he transferred another $1,200 to the escrow account.
She claimed this was not the first time Ms Wang had tried to harm her fiance.
She claimed that an enraged Wang crashed his car in the Blue Ridge Mountains after she forced him to leave a casino in North Carolina.
Tonya told the Daily Mail that she managed to pull Wang out and climb the embankment before the car exploded. He was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving, which was later dropped.
He was sober for a year but relapsed, sparking a series of nasty arguments in which he accused her of having less money than him and asked her, “How am I going to pay for the car now?” Are you going to pay?” he is said to have asked. Ask for her lawyer,” she told the Daily Mail.
The police showed up at her door several times, but she believes his medical credentials kept them at bay.
“He accomplished so much hiding behind a white coat,” she told the outlet.
“Just because he wears scrubs and is a doctor doesn’t mean he’s a good person.”
She believes Wang searched for the killer after telling co-workers about his drinking habits.
The 54-year-old doctor admitted conspiracy last week and was sentenced to more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty in October.
Despite this, Tonya allowed Wang to continue to have contact with her young daughter while in prison.
“I didn’t want her to be mad at her father. You know, I never wanted her to be like that. I wanted to protect his name as well as his image.”
Wang apologized to Tonya after the judge reprimanded her for failing to do so at her Jan. 18 sentencing.
“I am so sorry to have put you in this position. I now know that I have harmed you beyond repair. I hope you find someone who will treat you well.” he wrote in a Jan. 22 email from prison.
