11 Murder-For-Hire Plots That Backfired In Disastrous Fashion

Published October 5, 2023
Updated October 6, 2023

Jazmin Paez, The Miami Mom Who Wanted A Hitman To Kill Her Three-Year-Old Son

Jazmin Paez

Miami-Dade Police Department18-year-old Jazmin Paez was jailed and granted a $15,000 bond for solicitation of murder.

Jazmin Paez is an 18-year-old mother from Miami, Florida, who also fell for rentahitman.com’s facade.

In July 2023, Paez logged on to the site and filled out the contact form, writing that she wanted “to get something done once and for all” about her three-year-old son.

She added a request that her son “be taken away, far, far, far away and possibly be killed but ASAP.”

As he has done many times before, Bob Innes contacted local police after Paez sent over photos of her son and an address, accompanied by a request that the job be done by the end of the week.

Investigators posing as the hired hitman contacted Paez to once again get confirmation on her request. They negotiated a contract with her for $3,000 — then drove to her home and arrested her.

She was jailed and granted a $15,000 bond, which her father paid.

He later spoke to local news, saying, “My daughter is not a monster. My daughter is a little girl who was born with health problems. She has liquid retained in her neck. She’s had 12 surgeries, she lost the ability to move her face. She’s been bullied in school, they called her ‘the monster.'”

Paez’s son was put in the care of relatives in the meantime.

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Austin Harvey
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A staff writer for All That's Interesting, Austin Harvey has also had work published with Discover Magazine, Giddy, and Lucid covering topics on mental health, sexual health, history, and sociology. He holds a Bachelor's degree from Point Park University.
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Maggie Donahue
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Maggie Donahue is an assistant editor at All That's Interesting. She has a Master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and a Bachelor's degree in creative writing and film studies from Johns Hopkins University. Before landing at ATI, she covered arts and culture at The A.V. Club and Colorado Public Radio and also wrote for Longreads. She is interested in stories about scientific discoveries, pop culture, the weird corners of history, unexplained phenomena, nature, and the outdoors.
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Harvey, Austin. "11 Murder-For-Hire Plots That Backfired In Disastrous Fashion." AllThatsInteresting.com, October 5, 2023, https://allthatsinteresting.com/murder-for-hire-plots. Accessed January 30, 2025.