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# Murder for Hire

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## Video: Murder for Hire

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_Published 2013-07-09. Watch this police surveillance video of a woman caught hiring a hitman to kill her husband._


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## Transcript

Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. So, just got a little business to discuss? If that's. That's 21 year old Julia Merfeld, smiling. Right before discussing how to carry out her husband's killing. But you want it to look like a break in? Mm- hm. Someone breaking in? Well, we were talking about that too. And Palace was like oh since I know him I might be able to get him outside. I have a girlfriend who wants to move in with me and I don't want her to be scared to move in with me. If she thinks that we got broken into and then Jake got, you know. Yeah, like probably she wouldn't want to move in.

Yeah, so I'm kind of afraid of that cuz I want her to move in with me, cuz I don't want to live there by myself afterwards. So you say you don't want a gun in the house then? Cuz it would be messy in the house. [ LAUGH ] She then takes out her phone. I was looking the, at my calendar and I was thinking either the 18th of April, or the 25th. So. Both days, when she's working. Which, I just wanna make it as, as non- suspicious as possible. When do you anticipate. They decided on a break- in as the cover- up, before they meet again, to seal the deal. How you doing? Good, how are you? Showing him a layout of the home, where to park.

And the front door's here, this is the porch to the main door, that's the one we always use, and that's the, the key works to either door though. And a picture of her husband. So why do it? She says they were fighting. As terrible as it sounds it was easier than divorcing him, you know I didn't have to worry about the judgement of my family, I didn't have to worry about breaking his heart. Julia says she's been thinking about it for a while and it's the best choice. I think I'll just make it painless and I wondered if I [ CROSSTALK ] I'm gonna, I'm just gonna take him all out there and I'm going to shoot him right in the face.

Okay. For $ 50, 000, the deal was made, the money coming from her husband's life insurance. All set. Thank you. Good luck. Thank you. Good luck to you, too.

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