Meredith Lowell, an animal rights activist from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, was recently charged with soliciting a hit man in an effort to murder a random person wearing fur.
According to reports, a federal district court judge determined Lowell was too mentally ill to stand trial and released her back into society.
Lowell was charged following an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) over a tip given through Facebook. Lowell had discreetly written a post saying that she wanted an assassin to kill a person at random wearing fur near a Cleveland Public Library. Lowell wanted to watch the murder and then hand out literature about animal cruelty.
At one point, an FBI agent posed as a hit man and chatted with Lowell online about the plot. Lowell wrote to the agent, “I am paying you to kill one person wearing fur who is 12 or older (but hopefully at least 14 years, however 12 years old or older is fine).”
