Hello campers, grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.

Wear your camp counselors, I'm Katie, and I'm Whitney.

And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction, or roasting

murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire.

There's an old saying that if you want something done right, you better do it yourself.

But for some people, DIY murder just isn't right for them.

Maybe they're afraid to get their own hands dirty, maybe they know they'd be the prime suspect

if their target were to meet with an unfortunate incident.

There are any number of reasons why a prospective killer might turn to a hitman.

But as we've said before on true crime campfire, there are some real pitfalls to contracting

out your murder plots.

We're about to tell you two stories that illustrate that in vivid technicaler.

This is Stung, two failed murders for hire.

Case 1.

The con man, the yard man, and the hitman.

So campers, for this one, we're in North Liberty, Iowa, June 2016.

The Randy Lamb got a curious call one evening.

Apparently, a local con man named Ron Roby had contacted the Johnson County Sheriff's Office

with a bombshell of a story.

He claimed that in a acquaintance of his, a local landscaper named Justin DeWitt was trying

to find a hitman to kill a dude who'd screwed him over at work.

And not just the dude himself.

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