Florida woman paid FBI agent $5,000 to ‘get rid of ex-husband for good’
FBI agents have successfully ruined a Florida woman’s murder-for-hire plot to kill her ex-husband, who was allegedly abusing their 5-year-old daughter.
Gretchen Buselli first shared her ill intentions with an acquaintance that alerted Police and suggested that an undercover FBI agent carry the crime.
Buselli reportedly told the acquaintance that there were no other solutions than “getting rid” of the victim “for good” before selling his house and moving to Oregon.
The suspect agreed to leave $5,000 under a Tallahassee’s Cascades Park seat after paying the acquaintance $1,000 in “expense money” to dispose of the man’s body in the ocean.
Baselli was arrested and booked into jail, with her court appearance set for Sept. 22. She faces up to a decade behind bars if found guilty.
The agent said it was June 17 when the woman first contacted the man, identified in court documents as C.W., regarding the murder-for-hire plot. The pair then began to communicate using encrypted messages on the app Signal.
Law enforcement reportedly told C.W. to contact the woman on her phone so investigators could monitor what was said.
During a recorded conversation in July, the FBI agent said the woman told C.W. she was in a custody battle with her ex-husband over their 5-year-old daughter.
She said, “she has a judge that doesn’t care, and that she believes the system is corrupt and preventing her from getting justice for her daughter.”
The woman also said she thought her ex-husband was physically, sexually and emotionally abusing their daughter; the only way to protect her was to “get rid of her ex-husband for good.”
When C.W. asked if she wanted her ex-husband dead, the woman said she wasn’t OK with it but was “even less okay with the thought of her daughter being abused,” the affidavit states.
She said she planned to sell her house and pay C.W. with the proceeds, then take her daughter to Oregon after she got custody, the FBI agent said.
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