How to leave evidence: hire hit-men via text messages

Murder, plotted via text messages. Kevin Poulsen quotes Oklahoman Tonia Mullins:

"Don't care who as long as they can in no way be traced 2 me or u guys through someone else," the 32-year-old Oklahoma woman texted a would-be intermediary. "Price is going 2 be the big factor here. What r we lookin at?"

Seven to nine years, it turns out. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

The sharp edge of the case is that Mullins' activities inherently created a record of evidence. Voice recordings are also now a text, but this doofus made it easy.

Fed Blotter: Murder-For-Hire Plot Unfolds In Text Messages [Wired: Threat Level]

[#1 posted by mdh , November 22, 2008 7:30 AM]

phwned.

[#2 posted by scaught , November 22, 2008 10:04 AM]

^
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[#3 posted by wrybread , November 22, 2008 2:50 PM]

Best line from the article: "She was then arrested -- with the English language the only murder victim."

[#4 posted by OM , November 22, 2008 3:38 PM]

...Boy, is that not a classic image of selective inbreeding or what?

[#5 posted by zikman , November 22, 2008 10:19 PM]

#3, "Best line from the article: "She was then arrested -- with the English language the only murder victim.""

QFT

[#6 posted by dculberson , November 23, 2008 11:17 PM]

Om, no.

Well, I mean, not selective.