{"id":29228,"date":"2020-09-26T14:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=29228"},"modified":"2025-08-27T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:48:10","slug":"american-woman-allegedly-hired-to-kill-her-ex-husband-for-bitcoins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/american-woman-allegedly-hired-to-kill-her-ex-husband-for-bitcoins\/","title":{"rendered":"American woman allegedly hired to kill her ex-husband for bitcoins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Nevada woman has been charged with arranging the murder of her ex-husband, which never occurred. She paid scammers on the dark web 12 BTC.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View Felkins Criminal Complaint 0 on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/477565081\/Felkins-Criminal-Complaint-0#from_embed\">Felkins Criminal Complaint 0<\/a> by <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View ForkLog's profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/456422024\/ForkLog#from_embed\">ForkLog<\/a> on Scribd<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_92591\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" title=\"Felkins Criminal Complaint 0\" src=\"https:\/\/ru.scribd.com\/embeds\/477565081\/content?start_page=1&#038;view_mode=scroll&#038;access_key=key-JJaWk31v9QiD6KXubhrR\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7729220222793488\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nAccording to a federal agent&#8217;s court filing, Christi Lynn Felkins used a dark-web site that offered assassin-for-hire services. The site no longer exists and was fraudulent \u2014 no criminal orders were fulfilled, and clients&#8217; funds were embezzled.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_111337\" style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111337\" class=\"wp-image-111337 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Untitled-1-22.jpg\" alt=\"American woman attempted to have her ex-husband killed for bitcoins\" width=\"380\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Untitled-1-22.jpg 380w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Untitled-1-22-300x297.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-111337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christi Lynn Felkins. Source: court documents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In 2016, Christi Lynn Felkins ordered the murder of her ex-husband through the site, paying 12 BTC (about $5,000 at the time). For several months she corresponded with the site&#8217;s administrator, who found various reasons why her ex-husband was still alive. He also attempted to obtain an additional $4,000 from Felkins to carry out the order.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2019, U.S. law enforcement received information about this correspondence from a foreign hacker who obtained it by web-scraping the site.<\/p>\n<p>Federal agents also linked Felkins to an account on the P2P platform LocalBitcoins, through which she purchased bitcoins, as advised by the administrator of the fraudulent site.<\/p>\n<p>As reported, researchers found that bitcoin <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/study-bitcoin-remains-the-most-popular-darknet-cryptocurrency\">remains<\/a> the most popular cryptocurrency on the dark web.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Forklog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nevada woman was charged with arranging the murder of her ex-husband, which never occurred. She paid 12 BTC to scammers on the dark web for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1162,1154,26],"class_list":["post-29228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-court-cases","tag-crimes","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"10","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29230,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29228\/revisions\/29230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}