Woman pays for hitman to kill wife of man she met on dating app, US feds say


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A woman accused of hiring a hitman to kill the wife of a man she met on Match.com is now prison-bound.

Melody Sasser, a 48-year-old from Knoxville, Tennessee, was sentenced to eight years and four months in prison after pleading guilty to using interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire, the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee said in a Sept 18 news release.

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