The Michigan girl who tried to rent a hitman via a web site to kill her ex-husband has been sentenced to seven to twenty years in jail.
Wendy Lynn Wein, 52, of South Rockford, pleaded responsible on November 12 to utilizing the RentAHitman.com web site to rent somebody to whack her ex-husband and for utilizing a pc to commit a criminal offense in July 2020.
She was sentenced to seven to twenty years in jail on Thursday and might be credited the 545 days she’s already spent in jail.
Wein’s former partner, who was not recognized, was by no means focused as a result of RentAHitman.com was arrange by an IT skilled in 2005 as a part of a category challenge to snag folks trying to rent contract killers.
Bob Innes, the proprietor behind the pretend web site, instantly contacted state police, who despatched an undercover detective posing as a hitman to fulfill with Wein.
Wendy Lynn Wein, 52, of South Rockford, Michigan, was sentenced to seven to twenty years in jail on Thursday for utilizing a pretend hitman web site to take out her ex-husband
She used RentAHitman.com to aim to homicide her husband and wrote ‘I favor not going to jail’
Wein confirmed regret earlier than her sentencing, and admitted she was scuffling with the loss of life of eight of her relations on the time.
‘I take full accountability for my actions, and I hope a lesson is discovered by my instance,’ she mentioned on Thursday. ‘I had no proper to lash out at anybody, and in a fashion of minutes I modified everybody’s lives.
Bob Innes created the web site in 2005 as a category challenge and has helped authorities a number of instances over time
‘I’ve humiliated my household doing this,’ she continued. ‘I’m not making excuses for myself. I merely wished to let the place my head was,’ she mentioned on Thursday.
Wein had used a pretend identify to finish a service request on the location in July 2020, writing to Guido Fanelli that she wished to have her ex-husband killed as a result of he stole $20,000 from her.
‘I favor not going to jail. Thanks in your time,’ she wrote after requesting a session to assist her with an ‘difficulty.’
Fanelli is the alias Innes makes use of on the location, which has ensnared over a dozen others who’ve tried to make use of the web site to rent a contract killer, Rolling Stone reported after Wein’s arrest final 12 months.
Wein ultimately met with the undercover detective and supplied him details about her ex-husband earlier than paying him a $200 down cost for the hit, whereas agreeing on a $5,000 whole when the job was accomplished.
When filling out the request, she used her actual identify and was arrested later that day.