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Hit Man

Crime Tech

The Influencer and the Hit Man

How a war over a domain name ended in a bloody shootout.

Ian Frisch OneZero Dec 2019 25min Permalink

Crime

Love and Loathing in Las Vegas

Inside a sleazy FBI sting involving diet clinics, fitness models, money laundering, and a supposed plot to hire a hitman.

Trevor Aaronson theintercept.com Aug 2018 30min Permalink

Best Article Crime World

The Sicario: A Juárez Hit Man Speaks

The author travels to Mexico to meet a retired assassin and kidnapper, now himself a target of the cartels that once employed him.

Charles Bowden Harper's Apr 2009 35min Permalink

Crime

How Not to Get Away With Murder

Nancy and Frank Howard were happily married for three decades. Then he fell in love with another woman, embezzled $30 million, and hired a parade of inept hit men to kill his wife.

Michael J. Mooney D Magazine Nov 2014 25min Permalink

Crime

The Hit Man’s Tale

How an honors student became a hired killer.

Nadya Labi New Yorker Oct 2012 35min Permalink

Arts Crime Movies & TV

Drugs, Diamonds, International Intrigue — You Won't Believe Two Hollywood Producers' Crazy Backstory

Did Remington Chase and Stefan Martirosian “orchestrate” a contract killing in Moscow?

Gene Maddaus LA Weekly Jan 2014 20min Permalink

Sex, Lies, and Hit Men!

A Houston man allegedly tries to hire several hit men to kill his wife. Each fails miserably. It becomes the talk of the town.

Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Feb 2012 Permalink