A US hitman who is on the run after a botched murder case was exposed has reportedly stayed in touch with friends in his native Wisconsin and said his life has become a “shit show”.
Amy Betro, 44, was allegedly contacted by a local friend in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, who asked her if she was involved in a plot to kill a clothing store owner in England in 2019. Daily Mail report.
According to messages read by the outlet, her unidentified male friend asked her on Facebook on Thursday: “Lott, what are you doing?”
“Hey, I saw it, and there’s so much misinformation being said about me, I don’t even know where to begin,” Vetro responded. “It’s a really bad show.”
Ms Betro’s friend asked if there was anything he could do to “help” her, to which she added: “I’m glad you’re OK!”
“I don’t know,” the suspected killer replied. “I’m not sure there’s anything I can help you with, but I do appreciate you reaching out,” she replied, ending the conversation with a red heart emoji, the outlet reported.
The unidentified friend claimed to be one of several people from her hometown who have spoken to her since her involvement in the failed murder plot came to light, the outlet added.
“I spoke to her best friend today and she said she talks to Amy every day,” he told the outlet.
“She’s on her phone every day, taking pictures from her apartment window and interacting with people on Snapchat all the time.”
Her male friends claim that because of her frequent use of her mobile phone, “if the police really wanted to catch her, they would have done so already.”
“Amy has never said she had no involvement in this,” a friend told the Daily Mail, which claims Betro has admitted the basic facts of the incident.
“She accepts she was involved. She’s just saying some details aren’t correct.”
It remains to be seen what specific allegations she has made about her involvement in the failed murder contract.
But the news that Betro was living a double life as a hitman came as a shock to her mother, Jean Johnson, who had no idea her daughter was being pursued by police.
“It’s just crazy,” Johnson, 62, said. Times Thursday at his home in Stevens Point.
The mother said she had not seen her daughter for five years but continued to text her sporadically during that time and followed her lavish lifestyle on social media.
“Five years ago, she suddenly left all her belongings wherever she was staying and walked out,” Johnson told the outlet. “Amy stopped speaking to me and my entire family. I don’t know what made her do that, but there’s nothing I can do about it now.”
Now her mother says the scheme is over and is begging her daughter to “turn herself in”.
“I would encourage that because she would have nowhere to hide,” Johnson told the outlet.
“She has nowhere else to go and now there’s an international manhunt so she won’t be able to fly anywhere.”
But she offered a stern warning if her daughter was thinking of returning home.
“If she comes here I won’t let her in. I’m going to call the police. I’m scared someone is following her and maybe trying to kill her, now that everything’s out there,” she said.
“She needs to stop running away. She needs to pay the price now.”
Betro is alleged to have been hired by Mohammed Nazir, 30, and his father, Mohammed Aslam, 56, to murder clothing shop owner Sikander Ali in September 2019.
Nazir and Aslam, from Derby, had been harboring a grudge against Ali and his family since 2018 when he was injured during an altercation at a clothing store.
She is accused of wearing a traditional Muslim headscarf, exiting her Mercedes in suburban Birmingham and pointing a gun at victim Sikander Ali as he approached her home in an Audi.
Her weapon was jammed and Ali was able to escape with her life.
However, she reportedly returned the next day and fired three shots in the direction of Ali’s house, but this attempt also failed.
The suspected contract killer fled to the United States two days later and remains at large, the paper said.
Nazir and Aslam were convicted of conspiracy to murder last week and are due to be sentenced on August 9.
