Murder for Hire
Killings that were arranged and paid for.
10 cases
The Tiger Parents
Hann and Bich Pan pushed their daughter Jennifer toward perfection at any cost — and when she told police three armed men had burst into the family's Toronto-area home, investigators noticed her story didn't quite add up.
Devious Dixie
On Halloween night 1984, accountant Mel Dyson worked late at his Huntington Beach office while his common-law wife Dixie kept to her routine — a routine that, along with two men named George Ira Lamb and Enrico Vasquez, would draw hard questions from detectives.
Like Mother, Like Son
In Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains, Cheryl Kunkle raised her son Greg Rowe on resentment and control. When sixteen-year-old Kristin Fisher refused the abortion Greg demanded and gave birth to baby Kaylee, mother and son came to share far more than a grudge.
The Dinner Theater Murder
Hoping to rekindle a stagnant marriage, Steven Hricko booked a Valentine's weekend at a Maryland resort featuring a murder-mystery dinner theater show. His wife Kimberly — a surgical technologist whose job included disposing of unused drugs — was suddenly, surprisingly affectionate.
The IHOP Murder
Alcohol carried Dee Casteel from executive secretary for Hialeah's mayor to waitress at a Florida IHOP owned by Art Venecia. When Venecia's younger lover, Alan Bryant, complained that he was sick of 'the old fuddy-duddy,' Dee was the one listening.
The Dark Web Assassin
When Stephen Allwine calmly reported that his wife Amy had shot herself in their Cottage Grove, Minnesota home, the scene almost looked right. But the pieces didn't fit — and the trail led investigators somewhere few had ever gone: the dark web's murder-for-hire sites.
The Death Deal
Motivational speaker Jeffrey Locker was found bound behind the wheel of his station wagon in East Harlem, stabbed seven times. What led the Long Island family man to that street corner was stranger than any robbery.
The Birthday Surprise
On a dark stretch of Ortega Highway in 1999, a security guard found Dr. Kenneth Stahl's car idling with its window blown out and two bodies inside — the night of what was supposed to be a birthday dinner.
The Boardwalk Murders
Kosta Fotopoulos told Daytona Beach police he had shot a burglar who put a bullet in his sleeping wife's head. But the dead intruder had stolen nothing — and had walked straight to the couple's bedroom.
The Grieving Widow
Jamie Faith was walking the dog with his wife Jennifer on their quiet Dallas street when a masked gunman shot him seven times, then turned on her with duct tape. Doorbell cameras up and down South Waverly Drive caught everything.
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