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A hitman, on the other hand, is a term that is often synonymous with contract killer although it can also be used to denote a criminal who frequently carries out a targeted killing (referred to as a "hit") on behalf of an organized crime syndicate to which they are affiliated with.
Contract killing (also known as murder-for-hire) is a form of murder or assassination in which one party hires another party to kill a targeted person or people. [1] It involves an illegal agreement which includes some form of compensation, monetary or otherwise.
The person instigating a proxy murder may or may not be legally guilty of the crime of murder. This legal distinction varies where in the world the murder takes place. The person who instigated the murder is usually guilty as well. They may be charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, or being an accessory to murder.
A hitman offered C$100,000 ($71,400; £56,000) for the assassination of a crime reporter at Montreal newspaper La Presse, the outlet has reported. Convicted killer Frédérick Silva confessed to ...
The ex-wife of a celebrity rehab doctor who was gunned down at point-blank range has now been accused of orchestrating the murder-for-hire plot.. Ahang Mirshojae, 53, was arrested following a ...
Authorities alleged the so-called Pom-Pom Mom attempted to hire the hitman to bump off 38-year-old Verna Heath so her daughter Shanna could win a spot on the cheerleading squad.
Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors is a book written under the pseudonym Rex Feral and published by Paladin Press in 1983. Paladin Press owner Peder Lund claimed, in an interview with 60 Minutes, that the book started life as a detailed crime novel written by a Florida housewife, and that the format was later changed to appeal to Paladin's reader base accustomed to the ...
The ex-wife of a Woodland Hills doctor — who recently wept at his memorial — hired a hitman to ambush and murder him for financial gain, prosecutors say. Ex-wife accused of hiring hitman to ...