Scorned environmental officer who hired hitman on dark website Online Killers Market to murder wife of man she met on Match.com learns her fate

A scorned biology compliance specializer who hired a hitman to execution the woman of a antheral she met connected Match.com has learned her fate.

Melody Sasser, 48, was sentenced Wednesday to service much than 8 years down bars aft pleading blameworthy to murder-for-hire charges, the Department of Justice announced.

Court documents antecedently obtained by DailyMail.com item however Sasser placed an bid connected the acheronian website Online Killers Market to hire a hitman to termination Jennifer Wallace, the woman of David Wallace, whom she had met online.

She paid astir $10,000 successful Bitcoin - an untraceable cryptocurrency - for the hit, arsenic she described however she wanted the execution to beryllium executed and details astir the Wallace's life.

'It needs to look random oregon accident, oregon works drugs, bash not privation a agelong investigation,' Sasser wrote nether the username 'cattree' successful January 2023, according to the national complaint.

'She precocious moved successful with her caller husband, she works astatine location and successful bureau successful Birmingham. 

'She drives a bluish Subaru Outback, her hubby drives a maroon Jeep Grand Cherokee. 

'Her hubby works astatine Publix portion time, they person 3 dogs that bark and jump.

According to the affidavit, the accusation submitted astir Jennifer Wallace and her hubby was verified to beryllium 100% accurate. 

Sasser had besides uploaded an representation of Jennifer to the tract truthful she could beryllium positively identified by the assigned 'hitman'. 

She past spoke with an Online Killers Market head for 2 months, arsenic the 'job' was near unfinished.

'I person waited for 2 months and 11 days and the occupation is not completed,' Sasser wrote successful a connection to the administrator, according to Fox 19.

'[Two] weeks agone you said it was being worked connected and would beryllium done successful a week The occupation is inactive not done. Does it request to beryllium assigned to idiosyncratic else? Will it beryllium done? What is the delay? When volition it beryllium done?'

Authorities were yet made alert of Sasser's alleged strategy successful April 2023, erstwhile a overseas instrumentality enforcement bureau notified the Department of Homeland Security's that Jennifer Wallace was the people of an assassination plot.

Investigators yet managed to travel the wealth successful the lawsuit and subpoenaed Coinhub, which operates Bitcoin ATM machines that Sasser had allegedly used.

The institution responded with transaction information and lawsuit info that identified Sasser arsenic 'cattree', according to the complaint. 

She had purchased Bitcoin with currency connected astatine slightest 4 occasions astatine Coinhub ATMs successful Knoxville.

An ensuing hunt of Sasser's location besides uncovered a diary listing respective different hitmen websites, a handwritten relationship of conversations with Online Killers Market and a stack of US currency nether a sticky enactment listing a Bitcoin address.

When officers aboriginal informed the Wallace's of the menace connected their lives, Jennifer is said to person instantly told officers astir Sasser. 

Wallace told cops that Sasser and her hubby David had been hiking friends successful Knoxville, Tennessee, anterior to David moving to Alabama to beryllium with his fiancé Jennifer.

David, though, told constabulary helium had met Sasser connected Match.com and that Sasser had gone connected to assistance him hike an Appalachian trail. 

Jennifer Wallace told constabulary that Sasser past turned up astatine their location successful Alabama and told them: 'I anticipation you some autumn disconnected a cliff and die'.

She besides allegedly vandalized Jennifer's vehicle. 

The 2 past accidental they started to person threatening telephone calls from a idiosyncratic utilizing a instrumentality to disguise their voice.

Using the fittingness app Strava, prosecutors accidental Sasser was capable to travel the mates connected their hikes and she past relayed this accusation backmost to the hitman marketplace.

Sasser was indicted by a national expansive assemblage for the usage of interstate commerce facilities successful the committee of murder-for-hire.

She yet entered a plea woody connected Wednesday, arsenic her lawyer argued for a lenient sentence.

Jeff Whitt noted that Sasser had nary anterior transgression history, and alternatively spent hours volunteering to assistance with nationalist work causes, WBIR reports.

'What she did was the effect of a idiosyncratic breakdown,' Whitt told US District Court Judge Thomas Varlan.

'This was a breakdown of monolithic proportion,' helium said, noting that she had antecedently suffered from intelligence and affectional problems arsenic a effect of her parents' decease and had intoxicant maltreatment problems. 

He also claimed his lawsuit was profoundly remorseful for what she had done and wanted Jennifer to cognize she would ne'er person to fearfulness Sasser ever again.

'She wants her to beryllium capable to determination connected with her life,' Whitt said, arguing that his lawsuit apt won't reoffend astatine her age, arsenic Jennifer sat successful the courtroom but did not speak.

But authoritative Anne-Marie Svolto argued that Sasser's transgression was not a one-off effort to bash nary harm.

Instead, Svolto argued, Sasser worked for months trying to fig retired ways to harass and harm Jennifer - adjacent keeping a diary detailing her plans to termination the woman. 

As a result, Jennifer suffered trauma and fear.

She lived distant from her location for a while, got a weapon and she and her hubby repeatedly searched each country of their location to guarantee nary attacker was lurking there.

In the end, Varlan said it was unsocial that Sasser pleaded guilty, but noted the murder-for-hire program was thing she worked up to aft archetypal stalking and vandalizing the victim's vehicle.

He sentenced her to 100 months down bars followed by 3 years of supervised release, and ordered Sasser to wage implicit $5,000 successful restitution.