A man from the US state Tennessee, Nelson Repogle used BTC to order his wife's assassination. He contacted the hitman via a murder-for-hire online platform.
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Fortunately, the FBI succeeded to prevent the crime.The case was discovered by FBI Special Agent Clay Anderson. Repogle sent the hired killer the photo of his wife's car, information about her location, and BTC.
Federal agent cooperated with the FBI Cyber Task Force and after a careful investigation, found out the details of the BTC wallet address attached to the network for crime arrangements.The digital wallet through which the transfer was done, was backtracked to a Coinbase wallet. So, the FBI sent a writ to the exchange to get the details about the wallet. Continuing the investigation with the received info and the web address that Replogle executed, the FBI found out that the order had been conducted from Replogle’s house.
The contract killer's identity wasn't discovered as the latter used his wallet that wasn't linked to Coinbase.