People Who Pay People to Kill People
The twisted logic behind hiring a hit man
by Rene Chun
Jun 11, 2019
3 minutes
M couldn’t stand living with her husband, but couldn’t afford to live without him. So she came up with a plan that was boilerplate noir: Hire a killer to murder him, and collect the life-insurance payout. She met the hit man in a Walmart parking lot on Valentine’s Day last year, and gave him a down payment of three gold rings and $402 in cash, and a promise of another $4,500 on the back end.
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