The case against Jazmin Paez rested on a chain of online records, family identification and a police exchange posing as a hired killer.
MIAMI, Fla. — A Miami-Dade case that started with a tip from the owner of a parody hitman website ended Monday with a guilty plea from a woman accused of trying to have her 3-year-old son killed.
Jazmin Paez, 20, admitted guilt to solicitation of first-degree murder, unlawful use of a communications device and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence. She avoided prison under a plea deal, but the resolution did not soften the underlying allegation that police were able to follow an unusually tight evidentiary path from website form to family home to direct contact with the accused.
According to police accounts published after her 2023 arrest, the first break in the case came from outside law enforcement. Robert Innes, who runs rentahitman.com, told authorities he received a “service request” on July 18 that did not read like a joke. It included a name, a recent photo of the intended target, the address where the child could be found, a phone number and a requested deadline of Thursday, July 20. Investigators said the form also used the safe word “Put me in coach” and described the reason for the request as wanting “to get something done once and for all.” That level of specificity, Innes later said, was what prompted him to report it rather than dismiss it.
The next step was old-fashioned police work tied to digital records. Detectives traced the IP address and phone number attached to the submission, then went to the listed address. There they met the child’s grandmother, who told officers the boy lived with her and that Paez had moved out months earlier to stay with her father. When officers showed her the image posted to the site, she said she had taken that photo herself on July 17 after picking the child up from school and had texted it to her daughter. That detail tied the online request to a very recent family exchange. Police said the child was safe when they arrived and remained with relatives as the investigation shifted toward Paez.
Investigators then tested whether the person behind the request would go further. A detective posed as the hired killer and contacted the number provided through the site, according to court and media reports. Police said Paez confirmed the request during that exchange and agreed to pay $3,000 for the killing. When officers arrested her, they reported that the parody website was still open in her browser. Court TV also reported that investigators found a text message on her phone to a man saying “it’s being taken care of” in reference to her son. Authorities said Paez confessed after her arrest, though the public version of the police paperwork did not include her full statement. Taken together, the case file presented prosecutors with a sequence of records that moved from planning to confirmation without much gap between them.
That evidence became the foundation for a plea reached nearly three years later. On March 23, 2026, Paez pleaded guilty rather than forcing the state to prove the case at trial. Prosecutors added new context at sentencing, saying she had become a mother as a teenager and that the child may have been born from an incestuous relationship. Assistant State Attorney Ayana Duncan also said a teenage relationship and painful breakup may have helped trigger the plot after Paez disclosed she had a child. Those statements offered a possible motive theory, but they did not change the core prosecution narrative, which was built less around motive than around what investigators said they could document.
The final sentence reflected both certainty in the case and restraint in punishment. Paez received two years of community control, 12 years of reporting probation, behavioral therapy, a mental health assessment and any resulting treatment. Local reporting said she told the court she had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Prosecutors said they had rejected a lighter youthful-offender proposal, and they warned that any violation of probation could expose her to up to 40 years in prison. Her parental rights had already been terminated, and the child was later adopted by her mother. The plea therefore ended the criminal fact-finding but left a long enforcement period ahead.
What remains most unusual about the case is how it moved from an internet oddity into a standard criminal prosecution. A spoof site designed in part to draw out would-be clients produced the opening tip. Family members unwittingly supplied one of the key links by recognizing the child and the recent photo. Police then added the undercover exchange that, according to investigators, turned an online submission into a direct agreement. By the time the case reached sentencing, the strangest element was no longer the website itself, but how ordinary the evidence trail became once authorities began following it.
With the plea entered and supervision ordered, the next formal developments are likely to come only through probation compliance, treatment monitoring or any future violation proceeding. The criminal case’s central evidentiary questions are no longer open.
Author note: Last updated April 15, 2026.