Missouri man gets 10 years for trying to hire hitman on boy he allegedly molested

A Missouri man has been jailed for a decade after he admitted to attempting to rent a hitman to homicide a boy he’s accused of molesting in a bid to cowl up the alleged abuse.

Jon Mark Wilson, 58, was sentenced to 10 years in federal jail final week after paying an secret agent $2,000 to homicide his alleged sufferer, the Division of Justice stated Tuesday.

Wilson had already been charged with two counts of first diploma statutory sodomy in Pettis County when he began attempting to solicit a hitman for the homicide plot in 2019, federal prosecutors stated.

Investigators deliberate for an secret agent to satisfy with Wilson in Kansas in January 2019 after they have been tipped off by the supply he’d initially requested to rearrange the murder-for-hire.

Wilson advised the agent that he additionally wished the sufferer’s mom killed as properly — however he didn’t have sufficient extra for each.

He stated that he hoped the sufferer’s mom can be so distraught over her son’s demise that she would simply kill herself, the feds stated.

“It’s the one selection I obtained,” he advised the agent, in accordance with courtroom paperwork.

Wilson handed over $2,000 money to the agent and a photograph of the boy he allegedly had abused.

He additionally bought 25 shotgun shells for the agent to make use of within the homicide.

Wilson was arrested by a Missouri State Freeway Patrol trooper when he drove again over the state border after the assembly.

He pleaded responsible final September to 1 depend of using interstate services within the fee of homicide for rent.

The sodomy case in opposition to Wilson remains to be pending.