Man tried to hire hit man to kill his wife, her boyfriend because she wouldn’t let him see his kids

BOSTON (TCD) -- A 47-year-old man recently pleaded guilty in a murder-for-hire case targeting his wife and her new boyfriend. According to a Jan. 25 news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, Mohammed Chowdhury pleaded guilty to two counts of use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire. He was previously arrested in January 2023, and a federal jury indicted him in February 2023. Chowdhury reportedly contacted an individual and asked to have his wife killed, saying he "needed the murder done as soon as possible.