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I have a local one to share.

A woman in a small nearby town put an ad on craigslist looking for an actress. She then tried to hire the actress (using a powerpoint presentation) to murder her ex-husband in Israel with ricin.

I totally called ricin being involved when the FBI were initially here, though most people suspected a big meth bust.

Full text of article in reply if you want all the info.

Court documents show that an international murder-for-hire plot led to an FBI search in Ponca City, an Oklahoma town of about 24,000 people.

On Friday, FBI agents and the Joint Terrorism Task Force served a search warrant at a home in the 2900 block of E. Hartford. The FBI told FOX 25 at the time that a hazardous materials team was searching the home.

The affidavit, unsealed July 1, shows that an investigation into one of the residents of the home, 37-year-old Danielle Layman, began May 9 after a tip was called in to the FBI Public Access Line. The caller reported they were hired to murder an individual in Tel Aviv, Israel.

The caller told the FBI that on May 3 they responded to a a Craigslist post titled "10 day gig overseas for amateur, competitive pay!". The post stated they were looking for an actor for a production overseas. The ad also states that the actor must be "discrete".

The caller then met with the person behind the ad, who was allegedly Layman posing as "Samantha Dowry," at a coffee shop in Ponca City. Court records show that Layman then informed the caller that she wanted to poison someone with ricin and that if the caller told anyone, they would both be killed.

Layman then played a PowerPoint presentation for the caller, laying out the plans on how they would get to Israel, where the caller would stay and who they would kill, a taxi driver.

Layman allegedly told the caller the taxi driver's last name and gave her his phone number and a packet of instructions titled "Operation Insecticide". The caller would be paid $1,000 for personal expenses and lodging in Israel. The instructions told the caller to prepare their body for two weeks in advance for an eight hour time difference. The caller was instructed to pack a lock and key and vials of powder.

Court records show that Layman then gave the caller a small package that contained ricin in its plant form and was told not to open the package without gloves. Ricin is a lethal substance obtained from castor beans.

The caller was advised to tell airport security that the powder they were carrying, the ricin, was a religious relic that is supposed to "ward off evil spirits". When in Israel the caller was told to stay at a hostel and make friends and offer to go on a tourist trip via a taxi service. The caller would then call the number of the man she was provided and tell him that another tourist recommended him. Prior to taking the taxi, the caller was to prepare two cups of coffee and add the ricin powder to one of them and give it to the driver.

The caller was then to repeat the process over several days and monitor the driver's health. The instructions then state:

"When your mark is hospitalized [or] eliminated - move to a different hotel or motel until your flight home"

Court records show the caller would then be paid $4,000 for completion of the task. After the meeting, the caller asked an attorney friend what to do and was told to notify the FBI immediately.

Prior to meeting with the FBI, the caller disposed of the package in a dumpster at an Oklahoma City apartment complex. The FBI tells FOX 25 says there is no public health risk after the ricin was dumped at the complex.

The FBI took the phone number provided to the caller and traced it to a phone belonging to Layman. Layman, an Israeli national living legally in the United States after marrying a US soldier, was discovered to have children with the taxi driver identified as the "target" in the murder-for-hire plot. Media reports from 2014 show that Layman and her then 13-year-old daughter were visiting Israel when her husband filed a suit demanding visitation rights. The daughter was then prevented from leaving the country for an undetermined amount of time, but later allowed to leave.

During the search of Layman's home June 30, agents reportedly found several dozen castor beans, a mortar and pestle and residue of ground castor beans. Agents also found printed instructions on how to make ricin on the kitchen counter of the home. Agents also stated that Layman could be overheard making a phone call with her husband stating that agents would find the instructions in the home.

Layman was arrested following the search of her home. Her attorney argued Monday that she was in a high-risk pregnancy and asked for house arrest. The request was denied until a detention hearing set for July 11. She will remain in federal custody until that time. If convicted of using a facility of interstate commerce to solicit murder she could be sentenced to 10 years in prison.

That is wild.

Definitely crazier than what anyone here was expecting. I was thinking domestic terrorist of some sort.

Holy shit. That is nuts.

I love that she did a powerpoint on her laptop in the middle of the local coffee shop.

Re: Give me some crazy news stories.

ketita - 2017-07-03 23:48 (UTC) - Expand

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kaijinscendre - 2017-07-04 00:00 (UTC) - Expand

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rosehiptea - 2017-07-04 03:20 (UTC) - Expand

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kaijinscendre - 2017-07-04 04:25 (UTC) - Expand

Lol "Operation Insecticide".

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kaijinscendre - 2017-07-03 23:44 (UTC) - Expand

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(Anonymous) - 2017-07-03 23:58 (UTC) - Expand

this sounds like some really weird parody of a Tarantino movie

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kaijinscendre - 2017-07-03 23:57 (UTC) - Expand

This is insane and amazing and I am so glad you shared that with us. I must see a movie of this.

I love that Powerpoint was involved

I hope it had clip art

Is there clipart for murdering your ex? Maybe like a pill and a skeleton?

Florida now allows anyone to challenge anything being taught in schools. If you live in Florida and hear that a school is teaching something you disagree with (like evolution, or the Civil War ended with Lee's comprehensive defeat) you now have the right to demand the school stop teaching it.

Florida has now hit Peak Florida.

I know what the Satanists and Pastafarians will be at for a while.

Peak Florida. Hah. I have to keep reminding myself that no matter how bad Texas is, Florida (and Louisiana in some ways) is worse. Things aren't as bad as they could get here. Just look at Florida.

Florida is just doing its bit to win liberal environmentalists over to the joys of rolling coal. The more people who roll coal, the sooner sea level rise wipes out Florida. I'm in my VW right now, revving the engine for all its worth.

Re: Give me some crazy news stories.

raspberryrain - 2017-07-04 04:39 (UTC) - Expand

While Florida is in a higher percentile of crazy than much of the country, I heard recently that the reason "Florida Man" type stories come out with the frequency they do is because they have looser laws regarding what information from police reports can be released to the media. Like California Man or Texas Man or Wyoming Man could very well be assaulting their mothers in a dispute about a cheeseburger but we don't hear the cheeseburger part, just the assaulting his mother part.

Edited 2017-07-04 08:22 (UTC)

I work with a person who feels people should be able to do this at schools, but her reasoning is "because it's too complicated for the kids". The conversation came up because her kid hadn't grasped the concept of photosynthesis the first day it was taught. I legit have no idea when stupidity became cool again.

Did she consider her kid was just fucking stupid? Okay, that might be unfair. You don't have to learn everything perfect on the first day, so maybe her kid won't take after her and thus not be fucking stupid at all.

Re: Give me some crazy news stories.

greghousesgf - 2017-07-03 23:58 (UTC) - Expand

On the one hand, I really shouldn't be surprised by this, given the current political climate and whatnot...

...but on the other hand, oh, my fucking lord, are they serious?

Florida: It ain't the heat, it's the stupidity.

"Peak Florida".

Please, don't make Florida "hold my beer" itself.

Isn't "Hold ma beer an' watch this!" Florida's state motto?

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bur - 2017-07-04 00:21 (UTC) - Expand

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(Anonymous) - 2017-07-04 04:18 (UTC) - Expand

As a Floridian, I have to say...

I hate my fucking state. I really, really do. Everyone here is batshit insane, myself included, and it's no wonder. Nearly all the wildlife wants to kill you and the air is made of hot soup 3/4ths of the year. My county and its neighbor are particularly full of scary fundie churches, meth addicts, so very many armed rednecks and a whole lot of overlap between the three groups. Our beaches are great in late spring/early summer when the weather's nice, but it storms for over half the summer and starting mid-July every year the algae and seaweed population explodes all over the shoreline and brings an invasion of jellyfish along with it, making swimming in the Gulf a risky business indeed. We have roaches as big as my hand out in the woods, there are smelly fucking swamps everywhere, the water moccasins are super aggressive and will go out of their way to attack you at the drop of a hat, and the mosquitoes. The god-fucking-damned mosquitoes that laugh at your repellent and citronella candles. Add all those factors together and you've got a recipe for disaster. News stories like this don't faze me anymore because at this point I kind of understand the temptation to retreat into your own insanity and try to make the world bend to your delusions rather than facing reality.

This description of your state was amazing and yet terrifying at the same time. You've made me all the more glad I don't live there :p.

My county and its neighbor are particularly full of scary fundie churches, meth addicts, so very many armed rednecks and a whole lot of overlap between the three groups.

...oh, good lord. Talk about your nightmarish combinations.

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