A doctor has been charged after trying to hire hitmen in the dark web to kidnap and extort his estranged wife and break the hands of a former employee.
Dr. Ronald Ilg, a neonatologist from Spokane, has been charged with attempted kidnapping.
According to The Spokesman-Review, Ilg’s wife was informed by a group of unidentified international journalists investigating the ‘dark web’, which lead her to report to the FBI.
The unnamed wife provided the text messages to the FBI. This piece of evidence shows Ilg trying to hire someone in the dark web to kidnap her for seven days before he left for a trip to Mexico last weekend.
The investigators found the criminal-for-hire post, and it was stated that the victim has to be abducted and meet several ‘goals’ to receive bonus payments from the accused doctor who was posting under the username Scar215.
The ‘goals’ include that kidnappers have to make sure that the wife will keep her mouth shut about the abduction and should force her to inject herself heroin twice a day.
The terrifying instructions for the kidnapping of his estranged wife say that if her co-workers or friends questioned her whereabouts, she ‘could say she has COVID and is quarantined.’
“I need a rush job for next week,” the post under Scar215 reads. “I need the target kidnapped for five to seven days.”
“While being held she is given at least daily doses of heroin, she is also strongly persuaded to do a few things within two weeks,” it continued. “1, stop ALL Court proceedings, 2, return to your husband and the chaos you created, 3. Tell absolutely no one about this.”
“Also, the team should plant heroin and used needles with her DNA inside,” it reads. “After about seven days she is returned to her home.”
“She should be told that her family’s health, including her father and her kids, depends on her completing these rules,” the user Scar215 wrote in another post. “ It would be unfortunate if her older boy became addicted to heroin. Or her dad is severely beaten or her dog is slaughtered. Any and all persuasion should be used.”
The post also stated that $40,000 would be made paid in bitcoin for the kidnapping, The Spokesman-Review reports.
Ilg’s wife said that they married in 2016, and had a baby after two years. She added that Ilg then met another woman on the internet whom he ‘invited into the relationship.’
The wife told the FBI that she ‘increasingly became uncomfortable with the relationship,’ and made plans to divorce him.
She claims that the accused doctor tried to hire someone to carry out his plan in March and April this year, to make her stop divorcing him and to return home.
The Spokesman-review added that the Spokane doctor also allegedly tried to hire someone in the dark web to break the hands of his former employee.
“The target should be given a significant beating that is obvious,” the post reads. “It should injure both hands significantly or break the hands.”
The post stated that $2,000 worth of bitcoin would be paid for the assault on his former employee.
As of this writing, it is unknown from the court documents if the doctor found someone to take his offer.
The Spokesman-Review reported that Ilg is now in Spokane County Jail and charged with attempted kidnapping.