A New York former spa employee has been charged over her involvement in an alleged bitcoin-for-murder scheme that noticed her threaten to cut one supposed sufferer “into a hundred pieces” and supply a neighbor intercourse in the event that they “throw her body into a lake.”
In a letter in assist of pretrial detention, the prosecution particulars how, in 2019, Yue Zhou allegedly sought to rent knowledgeable killer to homicide her lover’s partner. It’s claimed she paid $5,000 in bitcoin to rearrange the homicide via a darkish internet web site.
In the course of the planning section of her plot, she reportedly shared particulars about her lover’s schedule and that of their partner to attempt to make sure that the homicide occurred at a handy time.
She additionally allegedly paid to have her lover’s daughter killed and despatched her threatening messages stating, “Warning: I will cut your body into hundred pieces… I know where you live. I watch you all time (sic).”
In keeping with authorities, sooner or later Zhou started to suspect that the web site was illegitimate and despatched a number of disturbing threats to the web site administrator, threatening bodily and sexual violence towards him and his household.
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Apart from this less-than-legitimate hitman-for-hire web site, the defendant supposedly texted a neighbor of the daughter and provided $10,000 and sexual favors in change for killing her. She inspired this neighbor to “throw her body into the lake,” including “I really don’t want to see her again.”
The letter for pretrial detention additionally alleges that Zhou “has worked for short periods of time at multiple spas around the country that are connected to illicit sex work.”
Zhou entered a plea of not responsible on July 8. The choose agreed to pre-trial detention.
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