Contract killing

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Contract killing (also known as murder-for-hire) is a form of murder or assassination in which one party hires another party to kill a targeted person or people.[1] It involves an agreement which includes some form of compensation, monetary or otherwise. It is an illegal agreement. Either party may be a person, group, or organization. Contract killing has been associated with organized crime, government conspiracies, dictatorships, and vendettas. For example, in the United States, the Italian- and Jewish-American organized crime gang Murder, Inc. committed hundreds of murders on behalf of the National Crime Syndicate during the 1930s and '40s.

Contract killing provides the hiring party with the advantage of not having to carry out the actual killing, making it more difficult for

forensic evidence linked to the contracting party, makes the case more difficult to attribute to the hiring party. Contract killers may exhibit serial killer traits, but are generally not classified as such because of third-party killing objectives and detached financial and emotional incentives.[2][3][4] Nevertheless, there are occasionally individuals that are labeled as both contract killers and serial killers.[5][6][7]

A contract killer is colloquially known as a hitman. Contract killers who work for criminal organizations are often known as enforcers.

Statistics

A study by the

firearms. Contract killings accounted for 2% of murders in Australia during that time period.[8]
Contract killings generally make up a small percentage of murders. For example, they accounted for about 5% of all murders in
Scotland from 1993 to 2002.[9]

The Hired Assassins (Ernest Meissonier, 1852)

Notable persons

Perpetrators

Mad Dog Coll leaving court surrounded by police officers, 1931

Victims

Employers

  • Dana Ewell, convicted of hiring his college roommate to murder Ewell's mother, father, and sister for the US$8,000,000 estate.
  • John Gotti, Italian-American crime boss, hired hitmen to murder Paul Castellano outside of Sparks Steak House in December 1985.[18]
  • Robert Fratta, ex-police officer, hired two men to kill his wife.
  • Lawrence Horn, record producer whose hiring of a hitman led to the case Rice v. Paladin Press
  • NHL
    player, hired an undercover federal agent to kill his sports agent.
  • Wanda Holloway hired a hitman to kill the mother of her daughter's cheerleading rival, inspiring a film.
  • Silas Jayne, Chicago-area stable owner, was convicted in 1973 of hiring hitmen to murder his half-brother George.[19]
  • Tim Lambesis, heavy metal vocalist who attempted to hire an undercover police officer to murder his wife.[20]
  • Charlotte Karin Lindström
    , Swedish waitress/model who attempted to hire a hitman to kill persons testifying against her boyfriend in a drug trial in Australia.
  • Luciano crime family boss. Ordered Siegel, Tannenbaum, Genovese, Buchalter, Carbo, and Krakower to murder Mustache Petes Joe Masseria and Sal Maranzano in 1931, and stool pigeon
    Harry Greenberg in 1939.
  • Joseph Maldonado-Passage (better known by his stage name Joe Exotic), an American zoo owner who attempted to hire an undercover FBI agent to murder a rival, the CEO of Big Cat Rescue (with whom he had a long-running and public feud).[21]
  • Diana Lovejoy, a technical writer, and her gun instructor Weldon McDavid were convicted of conspiracy to commit murder of Lovejoy's husband in 2016.[22]
  • Vietnamese-Canadian woman who hired three men to stage a home invasion in order to assassinate her parents in retaliation for decades of tiger parenting
    in 2010.
  • duress, the Supreme Court of Canada ordered she could not be retried.[23]
  • Pamela Smart hired teenage lover Billy Flynn and his friends to murder her husband.
  • Thomas Bartlett Whitaker, an American man who hired people to attack his parents and brother in a home invasion in 2003.
  • Flordelis dos Santos de Souza, former Brazilian congresswoman, convicted of the murder of her husband, pastor Anderson do Carmo.[24]
  • Anthony Ler, a Singaporean who hired a 15-year-old student in 2001 to murder his wife with promises of money and sex, as well as manipulation and death threats.
  • María del Pilar Pérez, a Chilean architect who hired a hitman to kill her husband (who had come out as gay), his boyfriend, and her niece's boyfriend.

In popular culture

Fictional cases of contract killing or "hitmen" are depicted in a range of

popular fiction
genres in the 20th and 21st century, including comic books, films, and video games.

Contract killing is a core aspect of the video game franchise Hitman, wherein the player controls a hired hitman simply known as Agent 47.[25][26] In the game Hotline Miami, the player controls a man who receives mysterious calls telling him to kill members of the Russian Mafia.[27]

The website RentAHitman.com is a satirical homepage for a fake contract killing agency. Its owner passes on details of those who try to use his services to law enforcement agencies.[28]

Nothing Personal is a television documentary series that presents stories of contract killings.[29]

See also

Notes

  1. Goju-ryu Karate
    .
  2. ^ According to Julio Santana himself, he stopped counting the number of targets he killed after the 492nd victim, implying that the actual number of victims he killed would be (unofficially) 500 or more.

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  9. ^ "Homicide in Scotland, 2002". Government of Scotland.
  10. ^ G1 (Ceará): Assassinato do pistoleiro cearense Mainha completa 10 anos e segue sem condenação
  11. ^ Aventuras na História: CONFUSÃO E MORTE: MAINHA, O MAIOR JUSTICEIRO DO NORDESTE
  12. ^ Aventuras na História: JÚLIO SANTANA: O BRASILEIRO QUE MATOU 492 PESSOAS E ESCAPOU DA POLÍCIA
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  17. ^ "'Hitwoman' charged in 6 slayings". Pacific Stars and Stripes. Japan. UPI. February 16, 1980. p. 7.
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  19. ^ Boyle, Robert H. (June 4, 1973). "End Of A Bloody Bad Show". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved March 21, 2013.
  20. ^ "Tim Lambesis Sentenced to Six Years in Jail for Murder-for-Hire Plot". Rolling Stone. Retrieved February 21, 2016.
  21. ^ Brulliard, Karin (January 22, 2020). "Zookeeper who killed tigers and tried to have rival murdered is sentenced to 22 years in prison". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
  22. ^ Pelisek, Christine (November 22, 2017). "How Divorce Led to Diana Lovejoy's Murder-for-Hire Plot". PEOPLE.com. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
  23. ^ "Ex-husband in hit-man case says courts were wrong - Nova Scotia". CBC News.
  24. ^ "Brazil: Former congresswoman sentenced to 50 years in prison for husband's murder". November 14, 2022. Retrieved May 10, 2023.
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  28. ^ Salam, Erum (December 17, 2021). "Meet the man who accidentally started an assassin hiring website". The Guardian. Retrieved January 5, 2022.
  29. ^ Egner, Jeremy (March 8, 2011). "Steve Schirripa on the Real-Life Button Men in His New Series". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 9, 2011.

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