Sheila Mills laughed when she told an undercover detective her estranged husband, Scott, was on blood-thinners — and that she wanted him dead. 

“I want her s--t cut, with blood just every f--king way,” Joseph White told Linda McNeil, describing how he wanted her to kill his ex-girlfriend Cheneta Yates.

Butch Halley ignored warnings from friends and family that his wife, Sunny Gunn-Halley, had not reformed from her criminal past and might wish him harm.

“I’d love nothing more than to have one of his fingers or an ear in a jar of alcohol,” Kevin Condren told an undercover cop while plotting revenge against James Sobanski.

Justin DeWitt had a cold-blooded plan to wipe out a co-worker's family. When that landed him in jail, he reached out to an undercover posing as a hitman to take out the cop who brought him down the first time.

Kristina Johnston showed her good friend a grave she had dug for her ex, Robert West, who had temporary custody of their kids.

At one point, while plotting her husband’s murder with inmate Rick Hampton, corrections officer Pamela Dickens said her two kids would “get over it.”

Upon hearing that his ex-girlfriend, SanDee Jones, was dating a black man, Keith Cote allegedly told Joey Sees, a former Marine, that he wanted to stab her in the heart with an ice pick “so he could watch her die slowly.”

“Why not?” Al Zombory told an undercover detective asking him why he was paying a hitman to kill his daughter’s ex-husband, David Metter. 

Contract killers risk botching a hit if they see their target as a human being, researchers found in one of the only large-scale studies of hitmen ever.