They Were Hiking Friends. Then She Ordered the Hit.

The prosecutor reviewed everything and said something haunting: "I don't think Sasser knows why she wanted her dead either."

In 2023, Melody Sasser—a 47-year-old environmental compliance specialist from Knoxville, Tennessee—paid nearly $10,000 in Bitcoin to have a woman murdered. The target wasn't an ex-lover. Wasn't a rival. She was the fiancée of a man Sasser had hiked with a few times.

This episode traces how a Match.com connection turned into a dark web murder plot, the digital trail that led federal agents to her door, and the question that still has no answer: what turns a hiking friend into someone capable of ordering a hit?

True Crime Cases You Haven't Heard examines the psychology, the evidence, and the 100-month sentence that followed.

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