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How to leave evidence: hire hit-men via text messages
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... who as long as they can in no way be traced 2 me or u guys through someone else," the 32-year-old Oklahoma woman texted a would-be intermediary. "Price is going 2 be the big factor here. What r we lookin at?"
Seven to nine years, it turns out. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
The sharp edge of the case is that Mullins' activities inherently created a record of evidence. Voice recordings are also now a text, but this doofus made it easy.
Fed Blotter: Murder-For-Hire Plot Unfolds In Text Messages [Wired: Threat Level] ...
Giz Tip: Don't Hire A Hit Man via Text Message [Self-incrimination]
Gizmodo —
... Mullins had asked her friend, Robin Berry, to help her contact a hit man, and the two got no further than discussing price between themselves before the police were tipped off and the whole silly enterprise ended. An undercover agent with the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation arrested Mullins and her co-conspirators easily, and the deliciously inept plotters plead guilty earlier this month. [Wired] ...
Text Messages Leave Clear Record of Paid Murder Plan
Technology - Channel Feed —
... won’t on you? That’s the mistake Tonia Mullins made, attempting to hire a hitman to kill his lover’s wife, forgetting that sending text messages create a record of conversation ...
Text Messaging Goes Awry with Murder Plot
Gadgetizer.com —
Text messaging is a great application that is being more and more commonly used across the nation in order to keep in touch with friends, connect with clients and to plan murders?
Tonia Mullins decided to try and hire a hitman to kill her lover’s wife through texting. Great idea.
“Don’t care who as long as they can in no way be traced 2 me or u guys through someone else,” the 32-year-old Oklahoma woman texted a would-be intermediary. “Price is going 2 be the big factor here. What r we lookin at?
Wow. Guess Tonia ...
