Another Facebook murder story concerns a man using Facebook to seek a killer for hire.
"I got 500 on a girls head who wants that bread? Hit me up anyway possible," the budding criminal mastermind wrote on his Facebook page. His accuser saw the message and called police, telling them about the rape and the contract...
Rape? Yes, this attempted murder, or solicitation, was the sequel to an earlier crime. It's a complete short horror story.
The would-be solicitor got impatient:
Adams agreed to meet with Billie at the police station for more chit-chat but ten minutes later he posted another Facebook update saying he "needed this girl knocked off right now."
(thanks to Todd Bryant; photo by Omarukai)
What an idiot! Doesn't he know about Craigslist?
Posted by: HP | February 20, 2011 at 23:53
This is an absolute stupidity! There are people who used this tool for their own foolishness. They should be banned from this site.
Posted by: Brad Fallon | March 06, 2011 at 02:22
HP, I think you've stumbled on another aspect of haunted media: the sequence of feared items. Facebook is Craigslist's successor in this position.
Brad, did you see that British "Facebook of crime" bust last week?
Posted by: Bryan Alexander | March 08, 2011 at 18:02