UpdatedWed, Apr 14, 2021 at 7:08 pm ET
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HADDONFIELD, NJ — A Haddonfield man has been indicted on charges he paid $20,000 in bitcoin to have a 14-year-old child he is accused of sexually assaulting murdered, authorities announced on Wednesday.
John Michael Musbach, 31, was charged by indictment with one count of murder-for-hire and will be scheduled for an arraignment at a later date, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
He was previously charged by complaint with one count of murder-for-hire in August.
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Musbach was arrested on child pornography charges in March 2016, according to authorities. Two months after his arrest, he began communicating with a murder-for-hire website on the dark web, according to authorities.