A North Texas woman who tried to hire a hitman to kill her boyfriend’s lover has been sentenced to nine years in prison, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton said in a news release Thursday. Michelle Murphy, 58, of Bedford, was charged via criminal complaint in September and pleaded guilty in […]
A Phoenix man was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in federal prison after admitting to attempting to hire a hitman to kill his ex-wife in order to retain full custody of their two children, authorities announced Wednesday. Court documents stated 44-year-old Ali Joseph and the woman finalized their divorce on Feb. 17, 2021. Joseph contacted a […]
A custody battle between two parents escalated when the father, a licensed lawyer, tried hiring a hitman to kill his children’s mother, federal prosecutors said. The murder-for-hire plot has now landed Allen Gessen in prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California announced in an April 26 news release. Gessen, an attorney […]
A married Missouri middle school principal who hired a friend to kill his pregnant girlfriend and her unborn child has pleaded guilty to the 2016 murder-for-hire plot. Cornelius M. Green, who was principal at Carr Lane Visual and Performing Arts Middle School in St. Louis, was accused of orchestrating the murder of 30-year-old Jocelyn Peters […]
At 3:30 a.m. local time on Thursday, Gypsy Rose Blanchard left Missouri’s Chillicothe Correctional Center after serving 85% of her 10-year sentence for her role in the fatal stabbing of her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard in 2015. Sentenced in 2016 after admitting to convincing her boyfriend at the time, Nick Godejohn, to travel from Wisconsin to the home she shared with […]