Posted on 06/11/2014 11:25:29 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
19-year-old Marissa Williams was charged with the solicitation of murder and is in the Tuscaloosa County Jail pending a $30,000 bond.
TUSCALOOSA, Alabama -- A 19-year-old is in the Tuscaloosa County Jail after asking a fictional stranger to shoot and kill her family.
According to court records filed Tuesday, 19-year-old Marissa Williams has lived with her aunt in Fosters, Ala., since April 2014. Their relationship was strained by Williams' habits on social media -- she allegedly would invite strangers she befriended on sites like Facebook over to her house.
When her aunt asked Williams to stop inviting men she met online to her home and did not allow her to go to parties with strangers, the 19-year-old blocked her aunt on Facebook, prohibiting the woman from seeing what her niece was doing there.
According to the deposition, Williams' aunt decided to create a Facebook profile for a fictional man that she named Tre 'Topdog' Ellis so that she could add Williams as a friend and chat with her. The woman hoped for a rare glimpse into her niece's online activity and for an opportunity to teach Williams about the dangers of interacting with strangers online.
The experiment soured quickly. According to court documents, Williams began unknowingly talking to her aunt, posing as Ellis, in late May, and on the first day they interacted online, she gave the fictional boy her phone number and home address and asked him to come over and get drunk with her. She then offered to have sex with him if he'd pay her $50 cell phone bill.
Days later, Williams allegedly told the man she knew as Ellis that her family made her angry and that she wanted to get out of Alabama. She then asked the man she'd never met to come kidnap her and take her away from her family. According to the deposition, Williams told 'Tre' to shoot and kill her aunt if she tried to stop him.
Her plans reportedly got increasingly intricate and sinister as time passed. According to the court files, she told the fictional man how to get into her aunt's bedroom so he could kill her and the woman's fiance first, then she asked him to shoot her cousin and the family dog on the way out. Williams allegedly planned to pack her things in his car while 'Tre' murdered her family.
When she read what Williams was asking the fictional boy to do, the aunt called the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Office and asked for help.
According to the deposition, deputies arrived and interviewed Williams, who admitted to the plot but apologized and said she didn't really mean for anyone to be killed. She was arrested and taken to the county jail, where she is charged with the solicitation of murder. Williams remains there pending a $30,000 bond.
It’s years of oppression by whitey that is to blame.
Something tells me she knew who it was.
The dog too??????? What a sicko!
Some people are not worth taking in, even if they are relatives.
um... you need a plot AND at least one overt action, don’t you?
You can’t jail someone for saying ‘I’ll kill you’
You can’t even jail someone for saying “i’ll hire someone to kill you”
But once they say that AND hand over some money, then you have at least one overt action to the furtherance of the plot.
I am not a lawyer, I don’t even play one on TV...
She did more than say, “I’ll kill you.” She attempted to get someone to do it.
You probably slept at a Holiday Inn Express though. Right?
Last I checked ‘conspiracy to commit murder’ is still a crime.
Money need not be exchanged.
Title made me think that the woman in question was putting makeup on a boy.
The girl looks just like a frowny face on Facebook messages.
we're just a depraved decadent deceitful and shameful Godless society...
but to have a conspiracy you have to commit one overt act... did you miss the whole point of my post?
watch the TV shows where they nail some poor bastard for hiring a hit man- until he hands over the money they don’t arrest him.
they give him every opportunity to back out- up to that point.
Am I the only one that thought this story was about a woman putting makeup on a boy?
Anybody ever pitch THAT one to you?
So. A woman pretends to be a boy on Facebook in order to talk to her niece? Talk about creepy. Stalkerish creepy. Only to find out she wants her dead. This whole family sounds wacky.
For a "sting" like this to work, it must be believable. ;)
Doesn’t have to be money.
From the article the girl offered to have sex with the ‘boy’.
That could easily be considered ‘payment’ for the ‘hit’.
But, not all states consider conspiracy in and of itself as a crime. Most state and Federal law states that the persons involved need to exchange ‘goods or services’(money also) first before it reaches ‘criminal conspiracy’
But some states still hold that ‘conspiracy’ is still a crime, whether or not an ‘agreement’ has been tenured.
Not sure if the state she lives in does or not.
she talked to someone else about it but that is the agreement between two parties part of the definition, but not the overt act part.
“Federal statutes, and many state statutes, now require not only agreement and intent but also the commission of an Overt Act in furtherance of the agreement.”
I am not sure, since it says ‘many state[s]’ if it applies to her state
She's an adult at 19. Should have kicked her out after the first week. Why did the aunt take her in in the first place? Seems the aunt should have known long before that the gal was a looser.
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