How easy or hard is it to hire a Hitman? I have seen movies basically where its just walking into a bar and asking. I also read news reports of so and so asking for a hitman. Can someone enlighten me?
How easy or hard is it to hire a Hitman? I have seen movies basically where its just walking into a bar and asking. I also read news reports of so and so asking for a hitman. Can someone enlighten me?
Professional hitmen don't actually exist. It's a 'business' that you can't possibly advertise for and has no way for the customer to assess the quality of the provider in advance. Sometimes killings do happen in exchange for money, but they don't involve someone that is a professional killer that works with the public as their primary source of income. It just doesn't exist. But there are some cases where killing does happen for money.
Sometimes two people will conspire to kill another for profit. Maybe one spouse hates another spouse. They ask a close friend or relative to kill their spouse, and they offer a portion of proceeds from life insurance as a payment for their risk and trouble. Or they're cheating on their spouse with someone else, stand to inherit all their spouses assets upon their demise, and promise to marry the person they're cheating with, thus sharing all the assets with them. In this case, it's not a stranger being hired; the killer has known the person 'hiring' them for decades.
Some killings-for-hire are gang related. A gang wants someone killed. They don't hire a random person to do it. They get one of their own members, who they've already known for many years and is a full member of the gang. In compensation for the huge risk the person is taking on to perform the deed, they offer a large sum of cash. Again, an unvetted stranger is not being hired. This person has likely already committed numerous crimes on the gang's behalf in the past. When you've already committed enough crimes on a gang's behalf to get you years in prison, a murder isn't such a stretch.
Some killings-for-hire are done at the behest of nation-states. Spycraft. The KGB or CIA hire someone in a foreign country who is already sympathetic to them to kill someone the intelligence agency wants taken out. The intelligence agency doesn't just select anyone, they go through a long vetting process just like they would any other intelligence asset. In fact, the potential assassin has likely already provided good intelligence and assistance to them for years, already risked extensive jail time or worse. If you're a US military member that's been providing intelligence to the KGB for a decade and have already participated in sabotage efforts, you're already looking at treason charges if you're caught. Offing someone for the KGB isn't such an escalation. And when a nation-state hires someone to perform a killing, they also offer the person a plausible way out. The CIA can hire someone to kill someone for them in a foreign country and hand that person a US passport along with a few million safely in a US bank account in their name. Hell, they can make sure the assassin's family has been given US citizenship and is already in the US before the deed is done. The CIA assassin can perform the killing, and as long as they can get to US or friendly territory before the foreign cops catch up with them, they'll be completely free and clear. And regardless, their family will already be set for life in the US.
These are the kinds of scenarios where killings actually do occur in exchange for money. No one hires someone to kill another that they haven't heavily vetted. If a random civilian is going to hire someone else to kill someone, they won't hire a professional assassin. They'll hire their brother or their lover. Otherwise contract killings only are done by organizations like gangs or national intelligence agencies, and they only hire people to do so that they've worked with for years and who has already committed numerous less severe crimes for them in the past.
In short, there really is no such thing as a professional assassin that serves the general public. Maybe if you are the spouse of a high-level violent gang member, you might be able to convince them to use the gang's resources to pay one of their trusted members to kill someone in exchange for cash. But if you're just a random average person? Forget it. There simply are not professional contract killers hiding in the shadows that a random civilian can hire if they have the cash. Anyone claiming to be that is simply a cop. Any person who DID try to start a career like this would be caught very quickly and have a very, very short career.
Look, I'll do it for a hundred bucks just to spite this person who wrote a pretty good reply. Be the chaos you want to see.
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This applies to the US and western Europe. There are places in the world where hitmen can be hired by normal people, but they are closer to homeless drug addicts than the sort of professional you are probably envisioning.
Every case of a random person hiring a "hitman" that I have heard of has, in fact, been someone hiring an undercover cop. And the people soliciting the services went to jail for a good long while.
Professional hitmen don't actually exist.
Sammy “The Bull” Gravano would probably disagree with you. He’d likely consider himself a professional since he admitted to involvement in 19 murders. Granted they were all mob related, and not “for hire” by anybody with a pile of cash and a grudge…
Sure. But when I say, "professional hit man" I don't mean a gangster, a mobster, or a spy. I'm referring to more of the professional hitman as seen in popular culture: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ProfessionalKiller
Think the trope in fiction. Someone wants someone killed. They find the shadiest person they can, like their tweaker cousin's dealer. They then ask this shady person if they can put them in touch with a contract killer. Through the grapevine, they meet with someone who is literally a professional killer-for-hire. The usual trope is some extremely well-put together gentleman; he probably wears a 3-piece suit and black leather gloves. He probably views killing as an art form. He takes professional pride in it. He's probably obsessed with expensive firearms and their various accessories, and he personally owns an arsenal big enough to take down the government of a modestly-sized city. Killing is his passion; he only charges at all because he has bills to pay like anyone else. The usual trope is to imagine someone as professional and presentable as the most formal lawyer or doctor you can imagine, except their business is killing.
While the real world version of a professional killer wouldn't be so extreme, the core should remain if they are to be a professional killer. They don't need to dress in a suit, have a private arsenal of rare expensive weapons, and speak in a British accent. But they should still meet the minimum definition of professional to count as a professional hitman. A "professional" is generally someone who offers a specific service to the public as their primary occupation. Lots of people know first aid. But only a doctor or a nurse makes medical care their actual profession. Most people can replace a light switch, but that doesn't make them a professional electrician. A professional usually sees some higher purpose or artfulness in their services and seeks to provide them to all that can afford them.
Sammy Gravano was a mobster, a terrible human being, and a ruthless killer. But he was a mobster first, and a killer second. He committed numerous other crimes on behalf of the mob, not just murder. And he didn't commit murders that weren't at the behest of the mob. You, as a random stranger, couldn't just knock on his door, hand him a bag full of cash, and get him to off someone for you. In fact, he would probably kill YOU just for trying.
Per OP's original question, Sammy Gravano does not count. There was no way for some random person back during his day to find him, hire him, and have him take someone out for them. He was a mobster, not a professional hitman-for-hire. And that is a crucial distinction.
From my extensive experience in this area (true crime podcasts lol), if your hitman is either quoting a reasonable price or offering a payment plan, they're a cop.
Unless you're in South Africa, in which case you can legitimately walk in to a bar and hire a murderer for a very reasonable price.
From my extensive experience in this area (true crime podcasts lol), if your hitman is either quoting a reasonable price or offering a payment plan, they’re a cop.
And the ones asking for payment up front will enjoy the free money. What, were you going to get a receipt for that?
Seriously man, it's a good price, and I have a plan setup with Affirm for payments, you can spread it out over at least a year.
"You better hope I can't get no bullets on layaway..."
LMAO ok now you got me curious what consists of a reasonable price? If the guy I was first married to who beat the shit out of me and raped me how much would that be?
So what is a realistic price in a western country? And what about those darknet hitmans?
Honestly, anything over 30k wouldn't really be worth it. Way easier to get a nice vacation and some therapy sessions for the same money instead of being that mad at someone.
From what I've heard that also applies to some South American countries. But in any developed country it's basically unthinkable to do something like this without getting caught.
Its pretty easy to hire a hitman on the dark web. Just be aware, they all seem to be undercover FBI agents.
So what I just type in Hitman...not the game and there it is? Also how does one use the dark web? Never thought about it. But a friend or so called friend just got busted for hiring a hit man to kill her adult son. And when I knew here I had to teach her how to use windows and type. So I am guessing and correct me if I am wrong it must be pretty easy to use the dark web.
Please don't go further with your curiosity.
Or she just used Facebook marketplace.
For the most part it's just a different browser and way weirder looking links that make navigation too much of a chore for average day to day users, but there are link aggregators, forums, and search tools for finding whatever category of the web you're looking for.
You can Google it, there are guides
Well it makes sense to hire an FBI guy, they have the training and experience.
How easy or hard is it to hire a Hitman?
That's the man right there, Officer.
Seriously though I don't know if it is a stupid ass trope or what but people seem easily to contact.
Depends on who you know.
If you are well connected to a cartel or a similar crime organisation or at least in good standing with them: No, it's not that difficult, sadly.
If you are not, thankfully it's hard.
Why? Because it's illegal and that is a problem for the buyer in that case. Why? Because if you hire someone he can simply fuck off with the money. Now what do you do now? You can't go to the police or sue him. You can of course hire another hitman and try to kill the first hitman . But who guarantees that this hitman is not also fucking off with the money? (There was literally a case when this happened).
So unless you have some kind of "society net" behind you, that protects you from this, either via coercion ("Pablo will kill your family if you fuck off with his money, the buyer is his veterinarian!") or other guarantees ("You are no longer welcome with lemmafia, you screwed over one of us!") you are likely fucked.
And if you would,you would not ask that here.
Which is good.
The old school hitman that worked for a higher up in a syndicate has nearly disappeared these days at least in the industrial nations. DNA based investigation techniques are fairly common these days and it is nearly impossible to be certain that you left no traces. And these can fuck you over 20 years later. So it's not a long term career these days as people don't want to risk being caught for drunk driving 20 years later and now have a murder case brought up against them all of a sudden. Additionally these kind of people are a liability - they can connect someone who does not want to be connected to a crime to one. Which makes them very interesting witnesses.
Even the crime cartels often use kids/minors as hitman these days - sometimes even brought in from South America,etc. just for the crime. They have very little risk of detection as they won't be in any databases, they don't care if they get their DNA on something when they disappear into a slum (or worse) afterwards anyway and if caught they won't get harsh sentences most of the time.
This is super interesting. Do you have any more information about these child assassins? Like an article to read? Or an anime I can watch?
A good article on the general topic
I can't find the one about the US I read, but here's a similar one in terms of burglary.
And an anime? Dude. What the fuck is wrong with you?
There is nothing glorious,nothing anime-worthy about these cases. There are victims on both sides - the crime victim of course,but also the child murderers are often somewhat a victim. They are not old enough to grasp the full concept of what they are up against, they are often first tricked and then coerced/forced, often come from a destitute family and economical situation and there have been cases when they disappear afterwards. A murder is a murder,but often they don't know what they get themselves into.
The only winners are the cartel/gang bosses. As usual.
All you gotta do is use www.rentahitman.com They've been around for a few years now and have heard good things about them.
Oh my god they even have a pop-up
Damn, beat me to it.
I can also recommend this service.
Contact your local FBI office - they'll put you in touch with some of the people they're keeping an eye on. You'll have to wear a wire though.
As everyone already mentioned, all hitmen are just cops with a fake moustache.
So just skip the middleman, and start swatting your enemies. Same results, probably at a discount for you!
There was a movie about this last year. It was based on a true story, but strays a bit from what actually happened. It's pretty good. It's called Hitman.
It’s called Hitman.
There's also a series of science-based, 100% hitman simulator video games of the same name.
The German Name for the Film is "A killer romance". I dont know why they change the english name to an other english name but they did it.
Can recommend the film.
It's all about the marketing. They probably wanted German audiences to know its a romantic comedy and not just an action movie
Last year? I only know 2007 and 2015 with 2007 being better IMO.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit_Man_(2023_film)
That one. Glen Powell actually showed some serious acting chops in that movie, I really enjoyed it.
It's always a cop, not a hitman
Asking for a friend?
Well first off go look at all those articles where someone hires a hitman and is arrested. its harder than that for sure but you keep seeing the stories pop up.
From my understanding, in Brazil, you just ask your local dealer if he knows someone and he'll put you in touch
Ok that has me thinking never go to Brazil.
You need some kind of special coin -- no, I'm not sure where to get one -- and then you go to this hotel right here. Then you go to the bar and ask.
The dark web is a pretty good bet. Going into a bar is probably going to get you arrested.
If you go through the dark web don’t meet the hit man in person. Remain anonymous (plausible deniability). Use an anonymous way to send money. I have no experience in the dark web but I’d assume there is a way to do the equivalent of an escrow account. Where you put the money in and it won’t release until contract is complete.
Well don't know about the dark web but it kind of seems like the people who are caught get caught by UI's. But even in that case someone would have to set person A to person B.
Asking about it on lemmy, i would say incredibly hard.
Ask Tiger King 😂
eBay has them for cheap using the Buy it now option. ☺️
Just contact the ICA and ask for Agent 47.
