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QUEENS, NY (PIX11) — A Queens woman is facing charges for allegedly trying to hire an online hitman to kill her lover’s husband, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.
Yue Zhou, 42, of Flushing, was arrested on June 5 in the Eastern District of Virginia and transported back to New York for processing.
Between March 25 and April 4, 2019, Zhou allegedly attempted to hire a hitman through a dark web murder-for-hire website to kill his lover’s wife, prosecutors said.
She paid a middleman in Brooklyn about $5,000 in cash and contacted the website administrator to confirm the payment, officials said.
Zhou allegedly gave detailed information about his lover’s wife, including her address, work schedule and the best times to attack her. He also allegedly tried to use the website to prepare the murder of his lover’s adult daughter, prosecutors said.
Zhou allegedly texted a neighbor of the daughter in February 2021, offering $10,000 and sexual favors in exchange for killing the daughter and disposing of her body in a lake, authorities said.
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The website Zhou paid on the dark web was a scam and there was no hired hitman involved, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.
“As alleged, the defendant took affirmative steps to hire a hitman to carry out the ruthless murder of her partner’s wife,” said U.S. Attorney Breon Peace. “Her nefarious plan was only thwarted because the website she used to arrange the murder-for-hire was a scam.”
Zhou will be brought before the court on Monday.
Ben Mitchell is a digital content producer from Vermont who has covered local and international news since 2021. He joined PIX11 in 2024. See more of his work here.
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