A woman was sentenced to nine years in federal prison for going on the "dark web" to try to pay a hitman $10,510 in Bitcoin to murder her boyfriend's lover.

The defendant transferred more than $10,000 worth of Bitcoin to an account she believed belonged to a murder-for-hire recipient.

Jeremiah Peikert is a U.S. Army sergeant in Texas who is accused of participating in a plot to hire a hitman to kill a woman, her boyfriend and two small children, according to court documents posted by Connecticut State Police.

A criminal complaint noted that Bedford resident Michelle Murphy sent about $10,000 in bitcoin on the dark web to have her boyfriend's lover killed.