Missouri man sentenced to 10 years in prison for trying to hire hitman to kill alleged victim

A Missouri man accused of molesting a minor has been sentenced to 10 years in federal jail for trying to rent a hitman to kill his alleged sufferer, prosecutors stated.  

Jon Mark Wilson, 58, pleaded responsible final September to utilizing interstate services within the fee of a murder-for-hire plot, in line with the Division of Justice. 

Wilson admitted that he paid an undercover ATF officer $2,000 to homicide his alleged sufferer in a separate statutory sodomy case in Pettis County, Missouri, the DOJ stated. That case remains to be ongoing. 

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Wilson solicited one other individual in January 2019 to homicide the alleged sufferer in order that he might keep away from prosecution within the Pettis County case, prosecutors stated. That individual contacted authorities and helped organize a gathering between Wilson and an undercover officer. 

ATF brokers conducting an investigation. 
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Wilson drove from Sedalia, Missouri to Kansas Metropolis, Kansas to fulfill with the undercover officer on Jan. 22, 2019 and agreed to pay $2,000 plus one other $5,000 after the job was finished. He additionally supplied a photograph of the meant goal, in line with court docket paperwork. 

Sedalia Police Headquarters
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Throughout the assembly, Wilson informed the spy he wished he might kill the sufferer’s mom as effectively however couldn’t afford it, in line with the court docket paperwork. He additionally reportedly hoped that the mom can be so distraught over her youngster’s loss of life that she would kill herself. 

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Court docket paperwork stated Wilson bought 25 shotgun shells for the undercover officer to make use of within the homicide. A Missouri State Freeway Patrol trooper arrested Wilson after he left the world.