A federal jury charged a 36-year-old woman in Sacramento for allegedly trying to hire a hitman using Bitcoin.
Kristy Lynn Felkins, originally from Nevada, reportedly attempted to pay a killer on the darkweb $ 5,000 in Bitcoin to kill her ex-husband.
According to court documents, Felkins used the darkweb in 2016 to seek assassin services to end her ex-husband's life when he moved to Chico. As per the contents of the document, he spoke to someone on the darknet and allegedly transferred 12 BTC on a website purportedly providing the murder service.
However, according to federal authorities, the website is a fake pretending to offer killers for hire to trick users, especially since the website is no longer operational.
As per the court filing, the 12 BTC allegations were tracked by Homeland Security agents to the LocalBitcoins BTC wallet allegedly linked to Felkins. Additionally, he talked about mixing BTC with fake assassins through pseudonyms before actually paying him $ 5,000 worth of BTC back then.
Conversation logs cited in the criminal complaint show planned moves, which began in 2016 when the suspect allegedly created an account under the pseudonym KBGMKN on the darkweb site.
As per the chat log, darkweb received $ 5,000 worth of Bitcoin between March 6 and March 9, 2016. He gave his details, including home address, vehicle registration, and job details, asking the hit man who was supposed to work “for hitmen to kill VICTIM -1 and make it looks like an accident. "
Negotiations continued for a while with the fake killer trying to extort more money from Felkins before finally disappearing without doing the job. According to the conversation log, the account linked to Felkins explains the reasons for trying to kill her ex-husband, stating in the KBGMKN writing:
"This man was mentally, physically, sexually and emotionally abusing me. I ran away, then he took my children from me. She is now mentally abusing my children and threatening their physical health. He is a snake and a master manipulater .. "
However, this is one form of crypto adoption that is not true, where even Felkins ends up in a service provider that is not true (fraud) and in our opinion, from the side of crypto lovers, this is still nothing compared to the contents of the FinCEN document which states that Some of the big banks are actually a pool of very large criminal bucks and that's bad for trust!
