[1] A common example of a proxy murder would be a person contracting a hit man,[2] or a hired killer.
Usually the victim is a woman who has violated sexual norms, such as refusing an arranged marriage or having relationships with unapproved, unrelated men.
John Bodkin Adams was an Irish physician who was investigated from 1946 to 1952 when 152 of his patients died mysteriously.
He admitted to helping his nurses deliver morphine to patients, but he said it was to ease their passing, not to kill them.
Adams was acquitted for several of the murders, and many others were withdrawn because the cases were not strong enough to hold up in court.
[7] A notorious case of proxy murder was that of Mark Hopkinson, who ordered the bombing deaths of an attorney and his family in 1977 in Evanston, Wyoming.
The man who bombed the Vehar house received a twenty-year sentence, but the hitmen who murdered Jeff Green have never been found.