A Loudoun County woman has been charged in a plot to hire a hit man to have her boyfriend’s mistress killed. Forty-nine-year-old Ann Jenene Cinnamon was charged with murder-for-hire and has been ordered to be held without bond. She faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
Her attorney at the public defender’s office in Alexandria, Whitney Minter, said Wednesday that the agency policy prohibits Minter from commenting about Cinnamon’s case.
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According to an affidavit signed by an FBI special agent, Cinnamon began seeking a hired gun in August after meeting a man on a dating website called “Be Naughty.”
During a series of conversations, Cinnamon told the man that she needed someone to help her out with a problem and asked whether the man knew of anyone she could hire to get rid of an individual she described as her boyfriend’s “mistress.”
The man called the FBI, which began monitoring conversations between Cinnamon and the informant.
The man told Cinnamon that he knew someone who could do the job.
Cinnamon told the informant that she wanted the woman’s life to be a “living hell” and for “nothing to ever work for her,” documents said.
She offered to pay $500 or $1,000, but would need two weeks to get the money, documents said.
The next week, Cinnamon said she found text messages on her boyfriend’s phone from the “mistress,” and that she was no longer “wishy-washy about any of it,” but she still had to wait on the money, which she said would come through in an inheritance.
A week later she called to say that she wanted the mistress gone.
“Gone is killed, dead, gone, I want nothing left, no remains, nothing,” she said, according to charging papers.
On Oct. 15, Cinnamon met the informant in a van at the Great Falls Plaza in Sterling, and handed him $100.
Four days later when she found that the woman was still alive, she called the informant and asked, “Why it wasn’t done” and stated she wanted “it done now,” court documents said.
She said she wanted the boyfriend dead also, but she preferred that it appear as if the boyfriend murdered the mistress, court records said.
