RENO, Nevada -- A Nevada woman who admitted to hiring a hitman on the internet for $5,000 in bitcoin to kill her ex-husband"and make it look like an accident" was sentenced to five years in prison.
Kristy Lynn Felkins, 38, of Fallon, Nevada, pleaded guilty in March to a charge of murder-for-hire as part of a deal with federal prosecutors that avoided trial, court records show. A U.S. District Court judge in California also ordered on Thursday that Felkins be released under supervision for three years after she serves her prison sentence.Felkins began communicating with someone in 2016 on a dark web hitman website that claimed to offer murder-for-hire services, according to her September 2020 indictment. Felkins wanted her ex-husband killed while he was traveling in Chico, California, the indictment said.
Felkins said she expected to receive a large life insurance payment after her ex-husband's death, which she requested to be made to look like an accident. According to her statement, she asked the purported hitman if it was"possible to make it seem like it was a mugging gone wrong?" Felkins, who has been out of custody, was ordered to surrender in September to begin serving her prison sentence.