A man tried to hire a hit man to kill his family, including his 7-year-old daughter, even requesting that she be shot in the chest and not the head so there could be an open casket at her funeral, authorities say.John Orlowski, 49, made a brief appearance in U.S. District Court on Monday on the murder-for-hire charge and was ordered held without bail pending a detention hearing scheduled for Thursday.
"Thankfully the plot was uncovered by law enforcement, and three innocent victims avoided a horrible tragedy," U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan said. (Watch how the feds got their suspect )
Orlowski's lawyer, James Roche, said Orlowski intends to plead not guilty.
Orlowski, who was going through a divorce, met the man he wanted to kill his wife, daughter and mother-in-law in county jail earlier this year after he'd been arrested a second time for violating a restraining order his wife had taken out against him, according to court documents.
He allegedly approached the man again after they were both released, and gave him a diagram of his estranged wife's house indicating the location of bedrooms and where he could find a pistol.
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