When a kill list was discovered on a Dark Web website advertising hitmen for hire, it was already too late for one target.
Stephen Allwine had grown tired of waiting for a hired killer to murder his wife Amy, a 43-year-old dog trainer and mother to a nine-year-old boy.
The church elder, from Minneapolis, had tried to pass off his wife’s death as a suicide, with a gunshot wound to her head.
But police were suspicious. The gun was on the wrong side of Amy’s body, there were bloody footprints through the house, Mr Allwine insisted on being accompanied by a lawyer for questioning.
Upon inspecting his phone, police discovered he’d been having affairs and had sent messages and money to the Dark Web site in exchange for murder.
‘I am looking to hire you for a hit’, one message said. ‘What is the price, ideally making it look like an accident? For reasons that are too personal and would give away my identity, …