Murder for Hire

Video Shows Doctor's Murder-For-Hire Plot Targeting Ex's Divorce Lawyer, Cops Say

AP | HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 05.16.2012

GREENWOOD, Miss. — A well-known Mississippi oncologist accused of orchestrating a plot to kill his ex-wife's divorce lawyer said he wanted a pic...

Man Tried To Have Wife Killed As 'Birthday Present' To Himself, Cops Say

The Huffington Post | Steven Hoffer | Posted 04.25.2012

A Las Vegas man is accused of hiring a hitman to kill his wife as a "birthday present" to himself, according to an official report obtained by The Huf...

Colo. Soldiers Arrested In Mexican Drug Cartel Murder Plot

AP | JUAN CARLOS LLORCA | Posted 03.27.2012

EL PASO, Texas -- Two men with Army ties – including an active-duty sergeant – sought to work with a Mexican drug cartel in a murder-for-h...

Woman Gets Life In Prison For Ordering Hit On Sick Husband

AP | AMY TAXIN | Posted 05.23.2012

SANTA ANA, Calif. — On the night his cancer-stricken brother was stabbed to death, David Jessee knew his sister-in-law was somehow behind it. A...

Va. Woman Pleads Guilty In Murder-For-Hire Plot

The Huffington Post | Posted 02.01.2012

WASHINGTON -- A woman in Virginia's Loudoun County pleaded guilty to murder for hire in federal court on Wednesday, according to the Washington Exami...

John Rudolf

Disgraced Mortgage Broker Pleads Guilty in Murder-For-Hire Plot

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 01.23.2012

NEW YORK -- A disgraced broker already in prison for engineering a $100 million mortgage fraud pleaded guilty Monday to orchestrating a murder-for-hir...

David Lohr

Crime Writer Arrested In Botched Murder-For-Hire Plot

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 12.17.2011

Police in Texas have arrested a published crime writer who allegedly tried to hire a hit man to kill her husband. Nancy Mancuso Gelber, 53, has bee...

Florida Murder-For-Hire Case Featured In 'Dateline NBC' Episode (VIDEO)

Posted 12.14.2011

The television news-magazine "Dateline NBC" will air a segment tonight on Dalia Dippolito, a Florida newlywed who was recently convicted of hiring a h...

David Lohr

Dalia Dippolito, Newlywed Who Hired Hitman, Released From Jail

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 11.13.2011

Dalia Dippolito, the Florida newlywed convicted of hiring a hitman to kill her husband, has been released from jail on a $500,000 bond. Dippolito, ...

UPDATE: 4 On Trial For Murder In Castle Rock Double-Homicide

Posted 10.24.2011

Josiah Sher, one of three suspects in a murder-for-hire case, that was allegedly hired to kill a Castle Rock man’s wife and her brother-in-law, admi...

David Lohr

Target of Murder-For-Hire On Facebook Shot Dead

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 10.17.2011

Authorities in Pennsylvania are investigating the slaying of a Philadelphia man who was gunned down after a judge upheld felony charges against the mo...

U.S. Attorney: No Death Penalty In Contract Killings

AP | By JIM FITZGERALD | Posted 10.03.2011

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- A Florida woman accused of arranging the killings of her husband and mother-in-law will not face the death penalty, a federal pr...

Wife Killer Asked Fellow Inmate To Murder Witnesses

Posted 10.02.2011

A man who was convicted of stabbing his wife to death in a suburban Chicago parking lot has been convicted of a further crime: trying to take out hits...

Ex-Cop Pleads Guilty To Taking Out Hit On Fellow Officer

Posted 06.27.2011

Five years ago, Jerome Finnigan was a member of an elite unit in the Chicago Police Department, tasked with cracking down on gang violence in some of ...

Private: James Patterson At His Most Medicore

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Jackie K. Cooper

Private is not a bad read but it isn't a great one either. It falls into the land of the mediocre and for an author with the talent of James Patterson that shouldn't be enough.

Darien Murders: Bond Denied For Johnny Borizov And Jacob Nodarse, Both Charged With Homicide (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Prosecutors say the gunman who fatally shot a couple and their son in their Darien home Tuesday was hired to commit the crime. Jacob Nodarse, the fi...

Small Town Illinois Sheriff Charged With Pot Dealing And Murder-For-Hire

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

MURPHYSBORO, Ill. — A southern Illinois sheriff already accused of selling marijuana, often while on duty, now faces charges of solicitation of ...