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The First Degree

Episode 239: HitmanForHire.Net

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.510K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On the morning of Saturday, September 16th, 2006, 51-year-old Essam Ahmed Eid and his wife, 43-year-old Teresa Engle, meet with 23-year-old mortgage broker Anne “Lauryn” Royston to refinance their home. As the meeting begins, Eid reveals his true intentions: he is a hitman, and he was hired to kill Lauryn. According to Eid, Lauryn can escape death if she pays him $20,000 within three days. The FBI and Lauryn work together to arrest Eid, the creator of a nefarious website under the domain HitmanForHire.Net. But Eid mysteriously disappears. Meanwhile, in Ireland, 43-year-old Sharon Collins hires Eid to murder her multimillionaire boyfriend and his two sons, so she can steal their family fortune. When Eid and his coconspirators bungle the assassination, the Irish police and US federal agents team up to take down this dangerous man. In episode (insert number), Jac and Alexis chronicle the misadventures of the unexpected culprits behind HitmanForHire.Net.

Transcript

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0:00.0

First degree first degree first degree first degree first degree the first degree

0:13.2

These things are supposed to happen in movies not real life

0:22.2

She said she wanted her shot in the head. She was like graphic with she had detail

0:26.5

This was a real payment she paid I could see it was like paid something I thought like all right

0:31.2

We break up and this is no no joke, but I'm thinking all right

0:34.5

We break up since the one to go scare them. Ah, right. I'm scared. All right

0:38.4

No, she really paid real money and risked her job and her life

0:42.5

I was kind of angry because it was just like you threw your life away

0:46.6

I seen this girl struggle with steady protest. I was dead with eight campus food. I seen her be called camera

0:52.0

I seen her come from a good family a mom that worked and

0:55.6

That's crazy

0:57.6

Welcome to the first degree the true crime podcast that you might end up on my name is jack vannich

1:02.0

I'm sitting here with Alexis link letter. She's wearing some old school vintage first degree merch right now

1:07.2

You can't see it, but it looks good. It's all been wearing for the last several days

1:12.0

I know we're really we're really like leaning into first degree merch territory

1:16.1

And if you guys ever wanted to get merch we're having a big sale on our merch store

1:20.0

So you can get 20% off everything and be twinsies with us, you know

1:24.4

It's really cute. I crop mine. I mean, there's a lot you can do with them. Oh, yeah, and I love them and just where

1:30.4

It's my unit little uniform

1:32.0

I feel like the times are coming back that maybe you know cutting up your shirts might be popular again

1:37.3

You know like back in the day. That's like all I used to do at warp tours cut up people shirts and like yeah time in little braids

1:42.3

Like it might be time it's gonna happen and you should do it with your first-degree merch. Okay, so today is

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