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June Pickard & Francis Noble Rita Mansour had been happily
married to her husband for three years. Rita, thirty-one, and her husband,
thirty-two-year-old Francis Noble were even talking of expanding their family and having kids.
When she and Francis married, he had moved into her condo in El Cajon, California.
Unexpectedly, his mother had also followed him in the move. Rita didn’t exactly get along with
her mother-in-law but had tried to make it work the best she could for the sake of her marriage.
She and Francis had been planning a cruise, to get away and
maybe start trying for their first child and she had been excited about the trip.
She had been shocked when while she was getting in her car to go to work on January 12,
2012, she was intercepted by two detectives. She didn’t believe what the detectives were saying,
they spend several hours convincing her that there was a hit placed on her by her husband
and mother-in-law. She wouldn’t believe them until she was shown video evidence.
The investigation had started only days before, on January 7, when the El Cajon Police Department
received a call from a concerned citizen. An old classmate of Noble's had bumped into Pickard at
the mall. The two started conversing and “the conversation turned sour pretty quickly,” he
said that Pickard had asked him to assist her in killing her daughter-in-law. The man said
he would help Pickard, but instead call the police and agreed to assist them instead.
The man helped connect Pickard to a “hitman” who was in fact, an undercover police officer,
and the officer quickly set up the first meeting. Pickard and Noble met the officer in the Parkway
Plaza Mall where they discussed what they wanted to be done. [insert clips from the undercover cam]
In addition to the $80,000 in Rita’s bank account,
they also had hoped to gain her condo as well as a $100,000 life insurance policy. Noble
paid the officer $100 as a down payment and promised to get the rest as soon as possible.
They agreed to meet again on January 12th for another part of the payment.
Detectives instead secured the safety of Rita first,
just in case they weren’t the only ones with a contract to hurt the victim. Once she was safely
at the police station, they went to meet again with Pickard and Noble who were then arrested.
They were charged with conspiracy to commit murder and soliciting murder. Initially, they both
pleaded not guilty but soon changed pleas when it was revealed how much evidence was against them.
They were both sentenced to life in prison, which in California is twenty years,
with the possibility of parole. During the sentencing, neither showed any signs of remorse.
They were eligible for parole in 2019 but it appears they are both still in prison.
Swift action in these kinds of cases saves lives. Lieutenant Steve Shakowski
said in a statement “This is not the type of investigation that you can let simmer
for a long period of time because there is a danger factor involved.”
Deputy District Attorney, James Romo applauded the El Cajon Police
for a perfectly executed takedown of two potentially dangerous people.
Wendy Lynn Wein It was the summer of 2020 when the Michigan
State Police got a peculiar call. A man, Bob Innes ran a parody website called “Rent-A-Hitman”
and, since its inceptions he has gone through the process of reporting people who reached out to him
via the website looking to hire a hitman. yeah so i brought some show-and-tell in a
quiet park in fairfield nevada police department cases from indonesia wearing dark sunglasses
to partially protect his identity there's some emails that she had submitted bob innes showed
us his pages and pages of printed out emails this is just a lot of solicitations from people around
the world innis has been getting these messages for over a decade from all sorts of people hoping
for some help how do you describe yourself cyber crusader is yeah i'm the webmaster of
rent to hitman.com your point-and-click solution yes innis runs rentahipman.com a website he
launched in 2005 when he started an i.t business and it was a play on words rent as and hire us hit
as in web hit visitor traffic analytics that kind of thing the business soon fizzled but the site
took on a life of its own when inez checked the email attached to the website a few years later
he had hundreds of unread messages with several dark requests what is the best way to handle it
it's scary because they walk among us i mean i've had cases out of lake county in stockton and la
i'm working on a case right now with the la county sheriff's department really makes you wonder about
who's out there are they your neighbors are they your business associates you never know
Innes said that on July 17, 2020, a woman had reached out to him after filling out a
“service request” form from the site. Initially, she had used a pseudonym,
but Ines had responded asking for more information which included her real name and other personal
information. The fifty-year-old woman, Wendy Lynn Wein, said that she needed a “highly skilled field
operative” to help her with an issue regarding her ex-husband. She wanted him dead. Innes
forwarded the information to the Michigan State Police, who took over communication with Wein.
“Rent-A-Hitman.Com” had been established in 2005 The undercover detective set up two meetings with
Wein, at the first meeting she provided the officer with her ex-husband’s home address,
place of employment, and work schedule. She had also agreed to pay the “service fee” of $5,000.
During an audio recording that was submitted to the court as evidence of their meeting,
one can hear Wein state “I want him gone.” She also stated she hoped
this site was legitimate because she didn’t want to go to jail. At the second meeting,
Wein gave the officer a deposit of $200 after which the officer had been able to arrest her.
Wein was charged with solicitation for murder, and using a computer to commit a crime.
She had allegedly wanted her ex-husband dead due to “inappropriate behavior.”
Wein pleaded guilty and said that she had been going through a lot at the time when she had
sought out a hitman. Saying to the courts, “at the time, I was going through so much I couldn’t catch
my breath. ...If I could go back and change that day, I would. I can assure you of this:
while I’m away from home I’m going to do all the therapy and programs I can.”
The judge on the case, Judge Daniel White said before he made his sentencing decision,
“If the intent wasn’t so serious here, this would almost be comical, but it’s not.” Had
Wein been successful in her attempts to have her ex-husband killed, it could have been an entirely
different trial. He also said “Nobody looking at it could have believed this website was real,
but you did. And this didn’t pop up on your Facebook feed; you went looking for it.”
Wein apologized to her friends and family saying “I take full responsibility for my actions,
and I hope a lesson is learned by my example,” she reportedly said.
“I had no right to lash out at anyone and in a manner of minutes, I changed everyone’s lives.
I come from a small town where everyone knows everybody. I’ve humiliated my family doing this.
I am not making excuses for myself. I simply wanted to let you know where my head was.”
She also apologized to her ex-husband who watched the court proceedings virtually. Wein
was sentenced to twenty-four years in prison, she was credited for 545 days already served and is
set for release in 2044 and she will be released when she is 74 if she serves her full sentence.
Valerie Cincinelli It was in 2012 when
Isaiah Carvalho Jr. got a message and a friend request on Facebook from an attractive woman.
Her name was Valerie Cincinelli and she said she had seen his photo in his dad’s office
and asked about Isaiah and thought she might “shoot her shot.”
Isaiah said the couple met, and immediately began dating. Isaiah said that when they started dating,
everything had been perfect. He knew instantly that she was the one for him.
He described her as a fun-loving person, devoted to her career, and also was a great mom. Valerie
had a young daughter, and Isaiah wanted to spend the rest of his life with this little family.
Valerie had worked for the NYPD for nearly a decade when they met and he loved that about her.
He felt that that made her a good person because she had dedicated her career to helping others.
After the two got married, things started to change between him and Valerie.
He said that the sweet, caring and loving woman he had met had slowly disappeared. He said that
she became someone who was cruel, selfish and grew more and more physically and emotionally abusive.
When Valerie became pregnant, he said that things took a turn for the worse.
He said that they had tried to work on things for the sake of their child but it wasn’t working. He
discovered that Valerie had been cheating on him, which solidified the marriage was over.
In 2017 they started a long and bitter divorce,
which included custody of their son, which Isaiah wanted to split.
The divorce was nearing an end when suddenly, Isaiah was approached by the FBI.
He couldn’t believe what they told him. Telling him “we don’t know how to tell you this,
but your wife has put a hit out on you.” They revealed that it had been Valerie’s
new boyfriend, John DiRubba that had reported Valerie’s intentions to the FBI.
DiRubba had met Valerie while she had still been married to Isaiah,
he said that while Valerie had been on patrol she saw him while he was washing his car and said hi.
The two spoke for a few minutes and DiRubba asked if she was married.
She said that she was, but her patrol partner leaned over and yelled “not happily.”
He said the two added each other on Instagram and began messaging each other.
Eventually, they began dating while Valerie finalized the separation with Isaiah.
DiRubba was fifty-years-old when he and Valerie met, she was twenty years younger
but he described it as “love at first sight.” They even got matching tattoos.
DiRubba described their relationship as rocky, but it was often blamed on stress from Valerie’s
divorce. He noticed that Valerie has begun to get increasingly paranoid that Isaiah was going
to get a portion of her pension. She started talking about needing Isaiah to “disappear.”
Then DiRubba began to notice a more concerning trend. Valerie began to get increasingly jealous
about his relationship with his teenage daughter. Valerie didn’t want him spending
time or money with her, as she viewed it on time and money that could be spent on her
and her children. She had even asked, more than once, to stop seeing his daughter altogether.
It was in February 2019 when Valerie approached him with a plan for them to
spend more time together. She wanted DiRubba to arrange for her ex-husband to be killed,
and also, his fourteen-year-old daughter. DiRubba said that he agreed because he was
scared and said he knew a guy who knew a guy who could get it done.
Instead of calling his friend a friend, he called the FBI. DiRubba wore a wire
as well as provided text messages showing what Valerie wanted.
She had thought that the hitman should take Isaiah to a rough neighborhood to avoid any connection.
As for the girl, she wanted her run over and made to look like a hit and run.
Under the instruction of the FBI, DiRubba informed Valerie that he had secured a guy who
had “accepted the contract.” He said that the guy needed $7000 and it needed to be converted to gold
to be “clean.” Valerie got the cash and gave it to DiRubba who was to convert the money to gold.
The FBI enlisted Isaiah’s help to aid them in their investigation.
They didn’t feel they had enough evidence to tie Valerie to the statements
so they wanted to stage Isaiah’s death to try and get incriminating statements out of Valerie.
He cooperated, and the FBI staged it to look like Isaiah had been shot while in his car.
Photos were taken and sent to DiRubba as “proof” the first murder had been carried out
and then agents went to Valerie’s home on Long Island to give her the news that her husband
had been murdered. They arrived at her apartment and delivered the news, DiRubba had been with
her at the time wearing a wire. When agents left, Valerie immediately began to discuss
the alibi’s and what they should say if they get brought in for questioning about Isaiah’s murder.
She also instructed him to delete all of their text messages from their phones, saying
that it was possible that law enforcement may subpoena their cellphones for the investigation.
The elaborate sting operation had taken weeks to conclude, but finally, they had enough evidence
to arrest Valerie Cincinelli. In May 2019, she was arrested and charged with 2 counts
of soliciting murder, obstruction of justice, and held without bail while she awaited trial.
Following her arrest, she was also suspended from the NYPD without pay and she was later terminated.
Initially, she claimed she was innocent but the evidence against her was damning. “The audio
and video recordings of [Cincinelli] discussing the murders are extremely strong evidence of her
intent to have them killed,” federal prosecutors said of the ex-officer. Her ex-husband wanted her
sentenced to the highest sentence available, asking the judge to give the maximum sentence,
arguing that his ex-wife is a “narcissistic sociopath” and a “master manipulator.”
She later agreed to a plea deal that would drop the two charges of solicitation to commit murder
if she pleaded guilty to the obstruction of justice charge.
The charge carried a maximum of five years as opposed to the twenty she had previously faced.
The plea was granted and a judge sentenced her to 48 months in prison.
“When I found out about the plea I was furious. I thought she was being given a free pass. I truly
believe she will find someone to finish the job [when she gets out],” Carvalho told the court.
With good behavior, Cincinelli could serve less than half of her sentence and be out at any time.
Isaiah Carvalho is fearful for what the future holds,
he currently has sole custody of his son. His lawyer said on his behalf
“Not a day goes by that my client doesn’t look over his shoulder,” adding “Ms. Cincinelli
had tried to hire a hitman once and was fully capable of doing so in the future.
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