Photo: Michigan State PoliceA Michigan woman has admitted to trying to hire a hitman to kill her ex-husband through a fictional website called “Rent-A-Hitman.“On Friday, 52-year-old Wendy Wein pleaded guilty to solicitation to commit murder and illegal use of a computer to facilitate a crime,MLive, theHuron Daily TribuneandWJBK report.Wein was arrested in July after she went to the fictitious website rentahitman.com and requested a consultation to help kill her ex-husband, according to a release fromMichigan State Police.She had filled out the website’s “service request form” to help her with an “issue,” which she specified was her former spouse.The website’s owner contacted police, who then sent a state trooper out undercover to pose as a hitman and meet Wein in a parking lot in South Rockwood.Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up forPEOPLE’s free True Crime newsletterfor breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases.During the meeting, Wein offered to pay the undercover trooper $5,000 to murder her ex, who lives in another state, and gave him money up-front for travel expenses. She was then arrested and taken into custody.Wein is scheduled to be sentenced in January. She faces a maximum sentence of 108 months in prison.
Photo: Michigan State Police
A Michigan woman has admitted to trying to hire a hitman to kill her ex-husband through a fictional website called “Rent-A-Hitman.“On Friday, 52-year-old Wendy Wein pleaded guilty to solicitation to commit murder and illegal use of a computer to facilitate a crime,MLive, theHuron Daily TribuneandWJBK report.Wein was arrested in July after she went to the fictitious website rentahitman.com and requested a consultation to help kill her ex-husband, according to a release fromMichigan State Police.She had filled out the website’s “service request form” to help her with an “issue,” which she specified was her former spouse.The website’s owner contacted police, who then sent a state trooper out undercover to pose as a hitman and meet Wein in a parking lot in South Rockwood.Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up forPEOPLE’s free True Crime newsletterfor breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases.During the meeting, Wein offered to pay the undercover trooper $5,000 to murder her ex, who lives in another state, and gave him money up-front for travel expenses. She was then arrested and taken into custody.Wein is scheduled to be sentenced in January. She faces a maximum sentence of 108 months in prison.
A Michigan woman has admitted to trying to hire a hitman to kill her ex-husband through a fictional website called “Rent-A-Hitman.”
On Friday, 52-year-old Wendy Wein pleaded guilty to solicitation to commit murder and illegal use of a computer to facilitate a crime,MLive, theHuron Daily TribuneandWJBK report.
Wein was arrested in July after she went to the fictitious website rentahitman.com and requested a consultation to help kill her ex-husband, according to a release fromMichigan State Police.
She had filled out the website’s “service request form” to help her with an “issue,” which she specified was her former spouse.
The website’s owner contacted police, who then sent a state trooper out undercover to pose as a hitman and meet Wein in a parking lot in South Rockwood.
Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up forPEOPLE’s free True Crime newsletterfor breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases.
During the meeting, Wein offered to pay the undercover trooper $5,000 to murder her ex, who lives in another state, and gave him money up-front for travel expenses. She was then arrested and taken into custody.
Wein is scheduled to be sentenced in January. She faces a maximum sentence of 108 months in prison.
source: people.com
