The next part of FBI agent Mark R. Mahoney’s affidavit relates to what the Knoxville, Tennessee, FBI office learned from a Cooperating Witness (CW).
The section is titled,
Attempts to Arrange a Murder”
The information was that
“…he/she had contact on the internet with an individual who has requested CW’s assistance in a murder.
“CW advised that he/she posted a forum message on certain websites that he/she was interested in obtaining an AK-47 assault rifle.
“Approximately two to three months following the initial forum request, CW received an email message via his/her personal from an unknown individual utilizing orcashrike@hushmail.com.
“The email said, ‘I’ve got a job for you” and within the email was an internet link to another website, Stealth.com. Once inside Stealth.com, CW received an encrypted message which prompted the reader for a password. Once CW provided the password, a new message appeared on the screen.
“The new message stated in summary, there is a woman living in Chicago that the sender of the message wanted killed, and if the reader of the message agreed, the sender would compensate the reader with an AK-47 and $8,000.00.”
Once unlocked, the message read, in part,
“Mark lives in Chicago NW suburb, works in Mount Prospect, IL. Female, 32, no firearms, combat or hand-to-hand training. Expect project completion time frame within 30 days. More info to follow. Non-targeted causes preferred (i.e. robbery gone wrong instead of a sniper shot) to preserve ‘randomness’ of permanent retirement actions. Please let me know if you are able to take on this project. Thank you.”
On July 10, 2005, the FBI obtained an email which read,
“I can get you a clean AK-47, completely untraceable to you in any way. Instead of having you pay cash for it, though, perhaps you can do a job for me. Please reply if interested so we can discuss further. Thank you.”
An email dated April 26, 2005, said,
“Subject: Project; Message: Subject lives in Algonquin, IL and works in Mount Prospect, IL. Home is pretty secure and non-involvement of friends or other family members is paramount so permanent retirement at either the work or errand locations (i.e. workout club – very early morning opportunities there) is strongly recommended. If we have an agreement, I can send specific info that will get you within 5 yards of mark on (at least) any workday. The rest would be up to you – this is intended as a simple termination, not a defilement of said mark.”
The emails were traced to Bachner’s Lake in the Hills home.
January 25, 2006, the FBI interviewed Bachner. He initially denied the emails, then said,
“I never told them I was Ed Bachner…I was bored. I had no intent.”
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