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An environmental compliance specialist allegedly tried to hire a hitman to murder the wife of a man she had met on Match.com.
Melody Sasser is said to have placed an order using a website called Online Killers Market to hire a hitman to kill Jennifer Wallace, the wife of a man she had met online.
In an affidavit seen by DailyMail.com prosecutors shared details of a transaction made in January of this year concerning the alleged murder for hire scheme.
Authorities were first made aware of Sasser's alleged scheme in April, when a foreign law enforcement agency notified the Department of Homeland Security's that Jennifer Wallace was the target of an assassination plot.
The overseas agency had discovered messages between a user in the U.S. named 'cattree', who prosecutors claim is Sasser, and the administrator of the Online Killers Market, according to the complaint.
Melody Sasser is said to have placed an order using a website called Online Killers Market to hire a hitman to kill Jennifer Wallace, the wife of a man she had met online.
David Wallace, pictured here, told police he had met Sasser on Match.com and that Sasser had gone on to help him hike an Appalachian trail
The first, dated January 11 2023, included Jennifer Wallace's full name and address in Prattville, Alabama, along with an escrow payment being made.
For the services, Sasser allegedly made payments totaling $9,750 in Bitcoin, an untraceable cryptocurrency.
Alongside the transaction, Sasser had added a description of how she wanted the murder executed and details about the Wallace's life.
According to court documents, Sasser asked the site: 'It needs to seem random or accident, or plant drugs, do not want a long investigation.
'She recently moved in with her new husband, she works at home and in office in Birmingham.
'She drives a
