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Animal Rights Activists Charged in Murder Fur Hire Plot
An animal activist planned to pay a hitman $730 to gun down a random person wearing fur outside of a Cleveland library.
A criteria for any gunmen considering the offer was that they do not wear "anything that looks remotely like fur," according to a police affidavit.
"I would like to create an online community on Facebook which would allow me to find someone who is willing to kill someone who is wearing fur toward the end of October 2011 or early November 2011 or possibly in January 2012 or February 2012 at the latest," Meredith Lowell allegedly wrote on a Facebook page she had established under the alias Anne Lowery.
Lowell, 27, was arrested Tuesday on one charge of conspiracy to commit murder. According to an affidavit filed by federal authorities, Lowell solicited a hitman to kill the first person he saw outside of a Cleveland Heights library who was wearing fur and "preferably 14 years old or older but should be at least 12 years old."