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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:09 pm Post subject: Woman Arrested for Allegedly Seeking Hitman on Craigslist |
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Now we have new and inventive ways to find hitman. Thank God this woman was stopped! This is just pure insanity but nothing is shocking anymore.
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Woman Arrested for Allegedly Seeking Hitman on Craigslist
Sunday, January 27, 2008
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A woman advertised on the popular Internet site Craigslist for an assassin to kill the wife of a man with whom she'd had an affair, authorities said Saturday.
The ad by Ann Marie Linscott, 49, was posted in November as a generic request for somebody to perform a "freelance" job, court document said. Her true intention was only communicated to those who e-mailed her seeking additional information about the job, the Craigslist CEO said.
Linscott offered $5,000 for the hit, had the name and work address of the woman she wanted dead and she described successful candidates as "silent assassins," according to agents and court documents.
"I've seen some screwy things, but I've personally never heard of anything like this," said Drew Parenti, special agent in charge of the Sacramento FBI office. "For a person to advertise openly for a hit man on Craigslist."
Agents arrested Linscott, whom they say went by Ann Marie and used the simple alias "Marie," on Thursday at her home in Grand Rapids, Mich. Federal prosecutors will ask a judge on Tuesday to make her stand trial in Northern California, where Butte County authorities worked with the FBI to identify the victim and her husband.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,325849,00.html
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