Rent-A-Hitman

There is something to be said about whoever had the idea to put up this website. 

I especially like the numerous tongue-in-cheek little touches such as the compliance statement, the references to “the Family”, the adherence to COVID-19 protocols, the status update of their Wuhan office, and this footnote:

Due to contractual restrictions, Rent-A-Hitman is no longer affiliated with the CIA, SIS, Diners Club, Jeffrey Epstien or the Illuminati.

But that’s not the real story here.  The website was recently in the news:

Wendy Wein, 51, was charged with solicitation to commit murder and illegal use of a computer to facilitate a crime after recently contacting a false service claiming to offer hitmen to “solve problems,” according to the Michigan State Police of the Monroe post.

On July 17, Wein reportedly contacted the website, www.rentahitman.com, which is not legitimate. After targeting her ex-husband as the root of her problems in a service request, the owner of the website contacted police because he was concerned that Wein may be attempting to kill the man.

“She completed a ‘service request form’ on the website and requested a consultation to help her with an ‘issue,’” said Detective Sgt. Michael Peterson. “Wein specified her ex-husband as the target of her problems.”

“An undercover state trooper posing as a hitman met with Wein in a parking lot in South Rockwood,” Peterson said in reports. “She offered to pay him $5,000 to murder her ex-husband, who lives in another state, and provided him with an up-front payment for travel expenses.”

She was arrested shortly after the incident, according to reports.

Since he started the website in 2005, the owner of www.rentahitman.com told police he has been contacted numerous times by people requesting murders, school shootings and even a baby abduction, police said.

“He claims the website has been responsible for preventing over 130 murders because he refers all requests for hitmen over to law enforcement,” Peterson said.