If you want to apply to become a hitman, you should probably find a more lowkey way of doing it than visiting rentahitman.com – a site that I am definitely not going to visit without a VPN but is set up to incriminate anyone dumb enough to actually try and book a hitman through it.
One person who is definitely dumb enough is Josiah Ernesto Garcia, 21, of Tennessee, who actually applied for a position as a hitman through the website rather than book one for a job. As per NBC, the Air National Guardsman came across the site as he was searching for hitman jobs to support his family.
Look at the ‘testimonials’ on RentAHitman – imagine how dumb you would have to be to think this was a legit site:
Garcia applied on the website for work as a hitman in February, submitting identification documents and a CV, as well as “indicating he was an expert marksman,” earning him the nickname “Reaper,” and was “employed in the Air National Guard since July 2021.”
Garcia continued to follow up on the website for about a month – submitting even more identifying information, including his home address and a head shot – and eventually agreed to kill someone for $5,000 in a conversation with an undercover FBI agent. Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!
In the end, the undercover FBI agent asked Garcia to meet him in a park in Hendersonville, TN, where Garcia was given a kit with information about the ‘hit’ and accepted a $2.5k down payment. He was probably feeling very badass in that moment but that quickly dissipated when he was arrested seconds later. He now faces up to 10 years in prison.
The website’s owner says he has helped prevent more than 130 murders since setting it up in 2005 by referring those interested in his fake service to police. Some of those he has reported have also requested school shootings and even a baby abduction. So yeah, he’s a bit of a hero in that sense. Keep up the good work, whoever you are.
For the private school headmistress who hired her ex-students to kill the wife of her ex-lover, click HERE. That one didn’t quite go to plan either.
