Sometimes, life in New Jersey is so crazy that it sounds like something out of a movie, a TV show, or a bad love song. Meatloaf once sang that he would do anything for love, but I think he would look at Marissa Mark, shake his head sadly, and sing, “...but I won't do that.” Back in 2006, Marissa Mark was living in Allentown, Pennsylvania and getting over a break-up. She could have taken the conventional routes of finding a rebound, eating ice cream directly out of the container, or watching lots of sappy movies, but Marissa had another idea in mind. She found a hitman online and hired him to kill her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend.
Hitmen don't exactly come cheap, and the site operator for Hit Man For Hire agreed to pass along the job to his network of hitmen for $37,000. Marissa paid an initial $19,000 using stolen credit card accounts through PayPal, and she promised to pay off the rest once the job was done. The hitman, Essam Ahmed Eid, contacted the girlfriend using an alias, and he said that he would call off the job if she could pay him off. The girlfriend paid him $20,000, and not long after, Eid was arrested and charged for taking another paid hit job. PayPal canceled the payment transaction, and Marissa was arrested. She is now facing charges and could face up to 56 years in prison.
For being stupid in love, stupid in money, and just plain stupid, we are awarding the Navin R. Johnson Award to Marissa Mark. Hitmen and stolen credit cards are never the answer to a broken heart.
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