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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. Either party may be a person, group, or organization.
A common example of a proxy murder would be a person contracting a hit man, [2] or a hired killer. Hit men commit the act of murder on a specific target or targets, and may receive payment in exchange for the murder or murders committed. This is what is known as contract killing. [3]
[1] [2] [3] Also Internet killer is an appellation found in media reports for a person who broadcasts the crime of murder online or who murders a victim met through the Internet. [4] [5] Depending on the venue used, other terms used in the media are Internet chat room killer, Craigslist killer, Facebook serial killer.
A Philadelphia contract killer admitted to the deaths of six people over three years, four of whom he gunned down on orders from a drug trafficker, federal authorities said Wednesday.
The practice of contract killing involves a person (the contract killer) who is paid to kill one or more individuals. [1] As implied by the name, the contract killer typically does such solely for the purpose of profit and often lacks any personal connection to their intended target.
Stephen Wayne Anderson (July 8, 1953 – January 29, 2002) was an American contract killer and serial killer who was executed at California's San Quentin State Prison by lethal injection in 2002 for the murder of Elizabeth Lyman. He was either known to have killed or admitted to the killings of at least eight other people, including a fellow ...
The film presents it as a fluke — the veteran cop who was doing the gig gets suspended for bad behavior, and they need someone to step in at the last minute to impersonate a contract killer ...
The player controls the contract killer Agent 47, who travels the world to assassinate various targets who are assigned to him. The first game in the franchise, Hitman: Codename 47, was published by Eidos Interactive for Microsoft Windows in 2000 and introduced many of the gameplay elements that would become staples of the franchise.