whom he had a long-running and public feud). Diana Lovejoy, a technical writer, and her gun instructor Weldon McDavid were convicted of conspiracy to commit murder of Lovejoy's husband in 2016. Jennifer Pan, a Vietnamese-Canadian woman who hired three men to stage a home invasion in order to assassinate her parents in retaliation for a decades of tiger parenting in 2010. Nicole Doucet Ryan attempted to hire an undercover Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer to kill her husband. After ruling that she could not use the defense of duress, the Supreme Court of Canada ordered she could not be retried. Pamela Smart hired teenage lover Billy Flynn and his friends to murder her husband. Thomas Bartlett Whitaker, an American man who hired people to attack his parents and brother in a home invasion in 2003. Anthony Ler, a Singaporean who hired a 15-year-old student in 2001 to murder his wife with promises of money and sex, as well as manipulation and death threats. In popular culture Fictional cases of contract killing or "hitmen" are depicted in a range of popular fiction genres in the 20th and 21st century, including comic books, films, and video games. Contract killing is a core aspect of the video game franchise Hitman, wherein the player controls a hired hitman simply known as Agent 47. In the game Hotline Miami, the player controls a man who receives mysterious calls telling him to kill members of the Russian Mafia. The website RentAHitman.com is a satirical homepage for a fake contract killing agency. Its owner passes on details of those who try to use his services to law enforcement agencies. Nothing Personal is a television documentary series that presents stories of contract killings. See also Assassination Assassination market Cleaner (crime) List of contract killers and hitmen Mercenary Murder, Inc. Private military company Wetwork Notes References External links Murder-for-Hire: Web Hits of a Deadly Kind (FBI) Satire Site Rent-A-Hitman—Has gun, will Gavel News story behind site and most-recent of several convicted Point-and-clickers (CNN-12-12-2021) Gangland warfare tactics Organized crime activity Temporary employment Killings by type Illegal occupations Speech crimes