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CTOnews.com, July 22 (AP)-A woman in Nevada has been sentenced to five years in prison for admitting to using Bitcoin to hire a killer to kill her ex-husband to defraud her high insurance money, AP reported.

▲ source Pexels court records show that the woman's name is Christie Lynn Fairkins (Kristy Lynn Felkins), 38 years old. She began communicating with someone in 2016 on a website that claims to offer a murder service for hire. Fairkins wanted to kill her ex-husband while he was traveling in Chico, California, according to the indictment.

Fairkins paid $5000 in bitcoin and said she was willing to pay an additional $4000 (currently about 28720 yuan) to speed up the murder, admitting that she "doesn't care" whether her ex-husband's new girlfriend will be hurt during the murder. "

Fairkins also said he hoped to receive a large amount of life insurance after the death of his ex-husband, so he asked to fake the murder to look like an accident. According to her confession record, she asked the "killer" if it was possible to make the murder look like a robbery that went wrong. "

However, the "killer" did not make good on its promise after receiving Bitcoin, and the police said the website was actually a fraudulent website intended to defraud money from unsuspecting customers and was no longer active.

After the trial, the court finally sentenced Fairkins to five years in prison and asked him to continue to be subject to judicial supervision for the first three years after his release.

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