US EditionNew York Man Pleads Guilty in Murder-for-Hire Plot Involving Pigs
- Jeal Sutherland, a 57-year-old resident of Colonie, New York, admitted guilt in May 2025 to orchestrating a murder-for-hire scheme aimed at a romantic competitor in the Albany region.
- Between November 2024 and January 2025, Sutherland devised the plot after discovering that the man he targeted—the father of a child he shared with his former partner—was soon to be released from prison.
- He hired a man he believed was a pig farmer—who was actually an undercover FBI agent—to eliminate the victim's remains by having hogs on a Pennsylvania farm consume the body.
- Sutherland also arranged for another individual to leave a Canada goose carcass on the doorstep of the victim’s mother, with an intimidating note placed in its beak, and paid the undercover agent $1,450 in cash along with a bottle of bourbon for the use of the farm.
- Law enforcement intervened before any harm was done, and Sutherland was taken into custody. He is expected to receive a sentence that could include a decade of imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, and supervised release, with his sentencing scheduled for September 22, 2025.
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Man Planned to Kill Romantic Rival & Feed Body to Pigs In Plot Involving Bourbon, Nun's Van
A man in Colonie, New York has pleaded guilty to using an interstate commerce facility in an elaborate murder-for-hire plot against a man who lives in the Albany area -- a man who is the father of his then-partner's child. Jeal Sutherland, 57, allegedly began developed his plan from November 2024 to January 2025, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office Norther District of New York. Using his cell phone, which enabled authori…
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