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Head on over to your favorite news site right now (hopefully it’s this one) and chances are you’ll find a story of a kid being caught trying to kill his family in order to to claim an inheritance. I’m actually pretty sure 80% of every Lifetime movie has that plot. And the reason we bring this up is because a 22-year-old man was fooled by an undercover cop who played the role of a hitman.
It all kicked off when Russian officers learned of a plot that the son was trying to pull off that involved hiring a hitman to kill off his parents and his ten-year-old sister. So because this is Russia and anything is fair game, authorities enlisted the help of the family in order for them to pretend they’ve been murdered by this “hitman.” This done so police could take photos of their bodies and send it to the son for confirmation.
This dude even gave the undercover cop a heads up on where the security cameras would be, how to avoid the guard dogs and even drew up a floor plan.
According to police, he [the song] agreed a fee with the undercover policeman for killing all three of his family members and demanded pictorial evidence. The parents were understandably devastated about their son’s alleged intent, so decided to assist the police in staging the incident. After this was completed, the ‘assassin’ arranged to meet the man to show the photos of the parents to him.
After seeing the pictures, the suspect was reportedly ‘delighted’ and agreed to pay the £38,000 ($53,000) fee to the man he believed was a contract killer the moment he collected his inheritance. The man, who’s not been named, would never get the inheritance and was immediately detained by armed police.
Here are just two of the photos from the fake deaths. While they are fake, some folks may find these graphic, so heads up:
The man of course confessed immediately, and he also admitted that he had tried to kill his parents twice before.
“I had been planning it for several months. I’m so done with them, they didn’t understand me, so I found a contract killer,” the man told police.
I know we get peeved at our folks sometimes, but let’s refrain from reaching out to a hitman, OK? Fantastic.
