Colton Beall, 18, a former student at Roswell High School, was sentenced Wednesday after admitting to investigators that he tried to have two 16-year-old classmates strangled to death with belt in December 2019
A New Mexico high school student who attempted to hire a hitman to murder two teenage girls to ‘fulfil a sexual fantasy’ has been sentenced to five years probation as part of a plea deal.
Colton Beall, 18, a former student at Roswell High School, was sentenced Wednesday after admitting to investigators that he tried to have two 16-year-old classmates strangled to death with belt in December 2019 using the website RentAHitman.com.
Investigators said that Beall filled out two forms on the parody site, detailing precisely how he wanted his victims to die as part of a sexual fetish he had for strangulation.
Though the implied services on RentAHitman: Your Point & Click Solution weren’t real, police found that Beall’s murderous requests were.
The teen included his own street address, email address and phone number on the forms along with the names of the intended targets and their addresses. One of the forms even had Beall’s real name on it.
He was arrested in Manchester, Tennessee, on two counts of criminal solicitation of murder on February 27 and extradited back to Roswell after the owner of RentAHitman, Bob Innes, notified police of Beall’s requests.
Investigators said that Beall filled out two forms on the parody site, detailing precisely how he wanted his victims to die as part of a sexual fetish he had for strangulation
Though the implied services on RentAHitman: Your Point & Click Solution weren’t real, police found that Beall’s murderous requests were
‘No one could be that stupid to hire a hitman on the World Wide Web. I mean, could they?’ questioned Innes to KRQE.
Innes explained the site was set up in 2005 for a new company that was going to offer computer hacking detection and prevention services to customers. The company founders offered to serve as computer hackers, or ‘hitmen,’ who would try to hack into a customer’s computer in order to identify vulnerabilities so the security issues could be addressed.
Though that company never made it off the ground, when checking the website’s inbox a couple of years later, Innes he discovered some people were actually taking the site seriously and requesting for murders to be carried out.
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ShareAfter getting his first detailed request in 2008, when a woman from the UK requested for three of her family members to be killed, Innes started transforming the site and adding features to make it more believable.
‘The first question is, ‘Do you still require our services? And, would you like me to put you in touch with a field operative?’ If they answer back and say yes, I’m going to do just that. I’ll be your matchmaker,’ Innes said.
‘If the solicitation comes from a minor, if it involves any kind of abuse or any kind of school setting, then it’s an automatic report. I don’t play around with those. There are too many school shootings.’
The teen included his own street address, email address and phone number on the forms along with the names of the intended targets and their street addresses. One of the forms even had Beall’s real name on it
Beall, a former student at Roswell High School (above), tried to have two 16-year-old classmates strangled to death with belt in December 2019
Innes has since turned over hundreds of requests and emails to law enforcement agencies across the world, saving the lives of more than 130 people who ‘didn’t even know they needed help’.
Among those, were the two teenage New Mexico girls unknowingly embroiled in Beall’s twisted fantasy.
The 18-year-old was sentenced by Judge Dustin Hunter of New Mexico’s 5th Judicial District Court via Google Meeting on Wednesday.
The sentence against Beall will be deferred pending successful completion of his five-year probationary period in exchange for changing his initial plea of not guilty to no contest on two counts of criminal solicitation of first-degree murder.
As part of the agreement, Beall must complete counseling, drug and alcohol screening and perform 200 hours of community service unless he has full-time employment or is enrolled in a full-time educational program.
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