The days of Facebook being used by horny college kids to hook up with one another are long, long gone. In 2012, the social network has been hijacked by people with much less sympathetic intentions: Money and murder. Why else would we be talking about a woman by the name of Meredith Lowell today?
Lowell, you see, is reportedly an animal activist who planned to pay a hitman $730 to gun down a random person wearing fur outside of a Cleveland library. She allegedly posted on a Facebook page established under the alias Anne Lowery: "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."
Yesterday, Lowell was arrested on one charge of conspiracy to commit murder.
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