A Dallas, Texas, girl who runs a web-based enterprise was sentenced to 10 years in federal jail following her conviction in a murder-for-hire plot.
Ashley Grayson, 35, ran an internet-based enterprise and gained notoriety from her on-line presence, in keeping with the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace within the Western District of Tennessee.
Grayson described herself on her Instagram account as a bestseller, eight-figure enterprise coach, course creator and philanthropist.
In 2021, Grayson had a falling out with a girl from Southaven, Mississippi, who had a web-based enterprise much like her personal. This girl was the goal of the murder-for-hire plot.
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Ashley Grayson was sentenced to 10 years in federal jail following her conviction in a murder-for-hire plot, in keeping with the DOJ. (iStock)
Grayson believed the lady had been creating pretend on-line profiles that criticized her and her enterprise, though the 2 girls by no means met in particular person.
Then, in August 2022, Grayson requested a Memphis girl, whom she had labored with up to now, to fly to Dallas to debate a “enterprise alternative.”
The Memphis girl and her husband arrived in Dallas the next month and met with Grayson and her husband, Joshua.
Grayson provided to pay the Memphis couple to kill the Southaven girl, Grayson’s former boyfriend and a Texas girl who had just lately made social media posts criticizing Grayson. She provided to pay a minimum of $20,000 for every killing.
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In 2021, Grayson had a falling out with a girl from Southaven, Mississippi, who had a web-based enterprise much like her personal and who was the goal of the murder-for-hire plot. (iStock)
On Sept. 10, 2022, the Memphis girl recorded a video name wherein Grayson confirmed that she needed the Southaven girl killed as quickly as potential and even provided an extra $5,000 for the killing to be completed within the subsequent week.
The Memphis couple later despatched Grayson an image of police lights from an unrelated incident in Memphis to make it seem as if that they had unsuccessfully tried to hold out the killings. The couple demanded $10,000, or half of the promised quantity, from Grayson. The Memphis couple then went to Dallas and met with Grayson and her husband and picked up $10,000 from them for the “try.”
In July 2023, a grand jury in Tennessee indicted Grayson and her husband to be used of an interstate facility in fee of murder-for-hire. The case went to trial in March of this yr, when a jury discovered Grayson responsible however acquitted her husband.
Grayson was sentenced to 120 months in jail and three years of supervised launch. (iStock)
Final month, Grayson was sentenced to 120 months in jail, the utmost sentence permitted for her crime, and three years of supervised launch. She is not going to be eligible for parole since this was a federal case.
“This was a twenty-first century crime the place on-line feuds and mindless rivalries bled into the true world,” Appearing U.S. Legal professional Reagan Fondren mentioned in an announcement. “The defendant tried to rent somebody to homicide a girl over issues that occurred completely on the web.”
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“Happily, nobody was bodily damage on this case, however the sufferer and her household nonetheless felt a extreme and emotional influence as the results of the defendant’s actions,” the assertion continued. “The proactive response from the investigating businesses and our prosecutors prevented an much more severe crime from occurring.”
