How do you Hire a Contract Killer?

Bostonist doesn’t know anyone in the contract killing business. Perhaps we could go about it the same way a Concord man admits to pursuing a hit man to take out his wife. Yesterday the trial of Harold Stonier began, with Stonier acting as his own lawyer. He admitted that he had taken action to have his wife killed but wanted to back out of the deal. So how did he find a hit man? Did he find a store with a flashing neon sign "Killer-for-Hire"? No, he asked is nephew. His nephew refused. The next logical step is to look in the paper, not to the classified section but to the story on the latest racketeering charges. Frank "Bruno" Moniz was out on bail with pending racketeering charges when Stonier contacted him. Any guy with a nickname Bruno must obviously be a hit man, right? According to Moniz’s testimony yesterday he didn’t want anything to do with the contract and notified federal authorities. Bruno Moniz had been linked to some unsavory characters in southeastern Massachusetts in the past, but Bostonist won’t comment any further than that with fear of a horse’s head showing up in our bed. The trial is currently under way, so let’s presume innocence for all members involved. Bostonist will watch it closely, any time a murder, conspiracy murder, or contract murder case comes up and the defendant is acting as his own lawyer there is bound to be some action. Remember, Stonier already admitted in his opening statement that he was arranging to have his wife killed.