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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.
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]
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.
Childs wrote a statement in July 1986 when he was held at HMP Winchester, admitting that Pinfold was "only convicted because of my perjured evidence". [11] [12]In 1997, The People reported that Childs had written to a penfriend through the Prison Reform Trust, describing how he dismembered the bodies of his victims and burned them on a 55-gallon drum in his council flat in Poplar. [13]
Anthony Ler Wee Teang [a] (c. 1967 – 13 December 2002) was a Singaporean convicted murderer who hired a youth to murder his wife, 30-year-old real-estate agent Annie Leong Wai Mun, who was in the midst of a divorce with him. Ler's motive was to become the sole owner of their flat and to gain custody of their four-year-old daughter.
The ex-wife of murdered Microsoft executive Jared Bridegan, 33, has been indicted on a first degree murder charge and is accused of conspiring to have her husband killed.. Shanna Gardner-Fernandez ...
Film critic Dana M. Reemes formulates the picture’s theme as follows: “The central question of the drama is under what conditions, if any, a man has the power of life and death over his fellows.” [9] Reemes details an exchange in which John Gant, reputed to be a “notorious hired killer,” reveals his true ethical motivations over a ...
Session musician or "hired gun", a musician who's been hired by a studio or band to play his part on the album or record. Hired gun, an informal name for an expert witness hired by a prosecutor/litigant or defendant in a court case to testify on their behalf for whom the Daubert standard rule of evidence applies.