Melody Sasser (Facebook).
A federal judge sentenced a Tennessee woman who hired a hit man to take out her desired boyfriend’s fiancee to more than eight years in prison, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
Melody Sasser, 48, pleaded guilty to interstate commerce of facilities in commission of murder-for-hire, prosecutors said . She must also pay over $5,300 to the victim and serve three years probation after she’s released from prison.
“Sasser admitted to using a dark web-hosted site known as the Online Killers Market for the purpose of hiring a hitman to murder an Alabama resident,” the prosecutors’ statement said. The target was the
As Law&Crime previously reported , the federal investigation into Sasser began in late April 2023, when authorities received information indicating that an adult woman had been named as a target in a murder-for-hire plot. The information, which came from a “foreign law enforcement agency,” allegedly showed messages from a person using the name “cattree” on the OKM website to solicit the murder of a woman married to an retired Air Force veteran.