Amy and Stephen Allwine were a happy, devout Christian couple living in Cottage Grove, Minnesota. Amy was a successful dog trainer; Stephen, a church elder and IT specialist. Shockingly, in 2016 the FBI came to Amy and warned her that someone had tried to hire a hitman to kill her through a dark web site called Besa Mafia. Who could possibly wish this wonderful, kind woman dead? Months later when Amy was found dead in the couple’s home from a single gunshot wound, it appeared to be a suicide. But the crime scene raised questions.As investigators dug deeper, troubling details emerged—betrayal, secrets, a double life and a twisted version of faith.

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Sources:

• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/48-hours-disrupts-alleged-dark-web-hitmen-in-potential-murder-for-hire-plots/
• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5312457/Man-trial-killing-wife-staging-like-suicide.html
• https://www.fox9.com/news/stephen-allwine-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-wifes-murder
• https://www.newspapers.com/image/383606874/
• https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-iba-3&ei=UTF-8&hsimp=yhs-3&hspart=iba&p=Besa+Mafia&vm=r&type=dkff_9317_FFW_ZZ#id=2&vid=6fbc51b0d98560a0bf5e23089b4de999&action=click
• https://www.fox9.com/news/convicted-dark-net-killer-claims-innocence-i-couldnt-have-done-it
• https://www.wired.com/story/dark-web-bitcoin-murder-cottage-grove/