Woman, 42, is charged for murder-for-hire plot after 'offering man $10K and sexual favors to kill her lover's wife'

A 42-year-old female has been charged successful a murder-for-hire crippled aft she allegedly offered a man intersexual favors and $10,000 to termination her lover's woman and big daughter.

Yue Zhou, of Flushing, Queens, was accused of offering cryptocurrency and rate to successfully execute her scheme for nan double execution - while wholly unaware that nan website she was utilizing connected nan acheronian web was fictitious.

Chinese nationalist Zhou, who worked arsenic a masseuse for spas crossed aggregate states, besides had a making love floor plan connected Match.com, sources told DailyMail.com. 

She was arrested connected June 5 successful Virginia and transported to New York connected July 3. On Monday, she was arraigned successful Brooklyn national tribunal by Judge Robert M. Levy and pleaded not guilty. She is being held successful jailhouse and didn't make a bail application. 

The 2 victims, who she tried to get killed pinch nan phony hitman, were unharmed. 

The U.S. Attorney for nan Eastern District of New York noted that 'newer technologies' including Bitcoin were utilized to transportation retired her strategy nan 'end consequence would person been age-old cold-blooded murder.'

'Her depraved scheme was only thwarted because nan website she utilized to group up nan murder-for-hire was a scam,' he said.

Zhou allegedly utilized an othername 'BIGTREE,' and sought to prosecute a hitman betwixt nan dates of March 25, 2019 and April 4, 2019. 

At nan time, Zhou was having an matter pinch her joined lover, and had go emotionally invested successful nan relationship, expressing a desire to get joined and person children pinch him, documents claimed. 

Unaware that nan hitman website she arsenic utilizing was bogus and tally by a 3rd party, she allegedly completed nan financial transactions basal to further her murder-for-hire plot.

During nan probe, typical agents pinch Homeland Security Investigations confirmed that a cryptocurrency transaction occurred related to nan 'BIGTREE' order. 

To salary for nan murder, she contacted a Bitcoin speech work that served arsenic an intermediary, based successful Ukraine. She made a $5,000 costs successful Bitcoin to nan website.

She past provided different $5,000 successful rate to a middleman successful Brooklyn. After some transactions were made she emailed nan hitman-for-hire website administrator to corroborate nan payments were received. 

After making nan payment, she proceeded to springiness a elaborate explanation of her lover's wife, unfortunate number one. 

She gave nan clone hitman nan woman's location address, activity schedule, and nan champion clip of time for nan termination - truthful her person would person an alibi for nan murder.

She continued to unafraid nan execution of her boyfriend's daughter, unfortunate number two.

When she grew suspicious that nan hitman website was a scam, she started to nonstop respective disturbing threats to nan hitman website administrator, threatening beingness and intersexual unit against nan administrator and his family.

In December 2019, Zhou contacted her lover's daughter, who was from an earlier marriage, and sent her threatening messages, according to nan documents. 

She allegedly said: 'Warning: I will trim your assemblage into 100 pieces if you guys still don't return responsibilities. I cognize wherever you live. I watch you each time.'

In February 2021, Zhou sent a matter to a neighbour of her lover's girl pinch a proposition of $10,000 and activity to termination nan girl and get free of her assemblage successful a lake. 

She said, according to tribunal documents, '[t]hrow her assemblage into nan lake. I really don’t want to spot her again.'

Around January 2, 2021, cellular information revealed that Zhou contacted nan neighbour for unfortunate two, from Cheyenne, Wyoming. 

Zhou antecedently worked for short periods of clip astatine aggregate spas astir nan state that are connected to illicit activity work, including a spa successful Cheyenne, Wyoming that went nether nan sanction Asian Relax Sap connected West Lincolnway.

The spa proprietor and an worker were arrested successful April 2021 for adultery pursuing an extended investigation that determined that workers astatine nan spa were offering and performing intersexual acts successful speech for money, section reports show.

Zhou worked astatine nan Cheyenne spa successful 2020 and 2021. 

On June 5, she was arrested astatine a spa successful Virginia pursuant to nan apprehension warrant issued pinch her indictment, according to nan U.S. Attorney's office.

Before her arrest, Zhou had besides worked astatine a spa successful Maryland that was besides connected to illicit activity work, according to section rule enforcement.

Zhou, who faces a lengthy condemnation if convicted, is simply a national of China, and does not person imperishable ineligible US status, and therefore, considered a superior formation risk.

The grounds against Zhou included messages to nan hitman-for-hire website, matter connection correspondence, compartment tract data, IP reside information, witnesser grounds pinch an recognition of nan defendant, a cryptocurrency tracing study and transaction detail.

'Although nan suspect has nary anterior documented criminal history successful nan United States, her engagement successful a depraved crippled to termination Victim-1 speaks volumes arsenic to her characteristics, arsenic does her later targeting of Victim-2, nan big girl of Victim-1’s Spouse,' nan US Attorney's agency said.

Her adjacent tribunal day is scheduled for July 31.