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Texas Woman Sentenced for Hiring Hitman with Bitcoin in Dark Web Plot

by Sonia Park
Texas Woman Sentenced for Hiring Hitman with Bitcoin in Dark Web Plot

Michelle Murphy, a 58-year-old woman from the Dallas suburb of Bedford, has been sentenced to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to attempting to hire a hitman to kill her boyfriend’s other lover. This marks the first murder-for-hire case in the region involving cryptocurrency, as Murphy used Bitcoin to facilitate her criminal intent.

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Murphy previously admitted in federal court that she transferred approximately $10,000 in Bitcoin to someone she believed would carry out the murder. However, the intended hitman turned out to be. . .

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