Cash used in murder-for-hire plot must be forfeited: B.C. court [Video]

A B.C. court has ordered the forfeiture of $30,000 in cash that was seized during a murder-for-hire investigation more than 30 years ago.

The target of the murder plot, 25-year-old Alexandra Pesic, was gunned down outside of her workplace in Coquitlam on Aug. 5, 1992. The B.C. Supreme Court ruled on the matter of cash confiscated during the subsequent RCMP investigation on Monday, finding that it was “tainted by criminality” because Alexandra’s mother-in-law used it to pay a hitman and “co-ordinate the murder.”

Alexandra’s mother-in-law, Jelka Pesic, was one of three people – in addition to the man who pulled the trigger – convicted of first-degree murder decades ago. A 1997 ruling on the unsuccessful appeal of that conviction sheds light on the sensational details of a case that inspired a made-for-TV movie called “The Perfect Mother” and has provided fodder for multiple true crime podcasts.

The murder

The court heard that Alexandra separated from Jelka’s son Joe soon after the birth …