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Murder For Hire

Ruth and Phil Markel

How a Florida grandmother became the center of a murder-for-hire saga

  • Jan 2

Murder plot suspects learned victim's routine before shooting: docs

  • Jul 18, 2025

School worker allegedly involved in murder plot

  • Apr 4, 2025

Katy man linked to murder-for-hire interfering with case, FBI says

  • Mar 31, 2025

Katy man at center of FBI raid accused of being linked to murder plot

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  • Mar 18, 2025

Father and stepson charged in alleged murder for hire on Grand Parkway

  • Feb 18, 2025

Liz Barraza to be honored 6 years after her unsolved murder

  • Jan 24, 2025

How the Texas cheerleader murder plot played out in 1991

  • Dec 18, 2024

Latest Videos

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2 Houston-area men get life in prison in Katy murder-for-hire plot against wrong man, officials say

  • Apr 29
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Weapons, 3D printed gun, drugs found as men face federal charges in murder-for-hire plot

  • Jul 18, 2025
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Katy man at center of FBI raid accused of being linked to murder plot

  • Mar 18, 2025
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Tomball woman to be honored in memorial 6 years after her unsolved murder

  • Jan 24, 2025
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Harris County man charged in alleged LA murder-for-hire waives extradition

  • Dec 18, 2024
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Daughter killed in driveway was murder-for-hire victim, dad claims

  • Jan 25, 2024
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Texas True Crime: Murder and Money

  • Apr 11, 2023
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2 more suspects arrested in connection to killing of Baytown woman

  • May 31, 2022

Latest Stories

Harris County man charged in alleged LA murder-for-hire waives extradition

The accused hitman in a Los Angeles murder-for-hire plot remains in the Harris County Jail, awaiting extradition as the victim's ex-wife made her first court appearance Tuesday.

  • Dec 18, 2024

Ex-wife, 4 others arrested in 'ambush' murder of California doctor

Dr. Hamid Mirshojae was shot and killed in the parking lot of his family medicine clinic in August, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

  • Dec 13, 2024

Chicago rapper Lil Durk arrested in Florida on murder-for-hire charges

Chicago rapper "Lil Durk" has been charged in a murder-for-hire scheme.

  • Oct 25, 2024
Justice Department via AP

Pakistani national with ties to Iran pleads not guilty in alleged murder-for-hire plot against Trump

Coincidentally, Merchant's arraignment came the same day a different man -- 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh -- appeared in a Florida court to answer firearm charges connected to an unrelated apparent alleged attempt on Trump's life.

  • Sep 17, 2024

Illinois woman's secret lover texts 'I'll do it myself' before boyfriend's murder, prosecutors say

Prosecutors read out several text messages in court between the co-defendants in the fatal shooting of Arturo Cantu, which they said is proof of their murder-for-hire plan.

  • May 21, 2024