Rockford, Michigan resident Ann Marie Linscott attempted to use the Craigslist online personal ad service to find a hitman to kill her boyfriend's wife.
Fast Facts:
- Ad was looking for "silent assassins"
- Linscott was offering a fee of $5,000
Ann Marie Linscott News and Blogs
- Topix.net: Ann Marie Linscott
- Google News: Ann Marie Linscott
- MLive.com: Woman to appear in court in murder-for-hire case (January 28, 2008)
- ChoicoER.com: "Woman linked to hit on Butte employee" (January 26, 2008)
- FBI agents have arrested Linscott for using interstate commerce to faciliate murder for hire. She may be transferred to California for trial, the state in which her intended victim resides.
- SacBee.com: "Help wanted: Murder for hire" (January 26, 2008)
- Linscott allegedly told officials that she intended to have the Sacramento woman "to be dead or out of the picture." She had met the woman's husband through an online college course in 2004.
- CNET News: Hit man allegedly sought in Craigslist ad (January 27, 2008)
- WWMT.com: Police: Local Woman Sought Hit Man on Craigslist (January 28, 2008)
- USAToday.com: FBI: Woman posted Craigslist ad seeking killer for lover's wife (January 27, 2008)
- Dlisted: Dumblist (January 28, 2008)
- Google Blog Search: Ann Marie Linscott