A New Jersey man who exchanged sexually express movies and pictures with a 13-year-old New York woman has admitted paying $20,000 in bitcoin to have the kid sufferer murdered earlier than finally calling it off.
John Michael Musbach, 31, of Haddonfield, pleaded responsible Thursday to utilizing interstate commerce amenities within the fee of a murder-for-hire plot, in accordance to federal prosecutors. He now faces up to 10 years in jail when he is sentenced June 13.
Musbach started speaking on-line with the sufferer in the summertime of 2015. Musbach finally started utilizing these chats to request and obtain sexually express movies and pictures of the woman and to ship her related movies and pictures of himself, however the woman’s mother and father found the character of the chats and notified native regulation enforcement officers in New York state, the place they lived.
He was arrested on youngster pornography expenses in March 2016 and finally pleaded responsible to youngster endangerment in October 2017. He acquired a two-year suspended jail sentence and was positioned on lifetime parole.
In Might 2016, Musbach began speaking with the administrator of a murder-for-hire website on the darkish internet, whereas his prison case was pending, officers have stated. After asking if the woman was too younger to goal and being informed the age wasn’t an issue, prosecutors stated Musbach paid roughly $20,000 in bitcoin for the hit.
When pressed for an extra $5,000 to safe the hit, Musbach finally sought to cancel and requested for a refund of his $20,000. The web site’s administrator then revealed that the location was a rip-off and threatened to reveal Musbach’s info to regulation enforcement.
Federal prosecutors didn’t specify Thursday how the plot was uncovered. However throughout his indictment in 2020, prosecutors stated an informant gave the Division of Homeland Safety messages between Musbach and the faux web site for contract killings.