A suburban man tried to hire a hit man for $10,000 to kill his wife and her boyfriend so the married couple’s daughter would learn “good habits and good culture,” prosecutors said today.
Nuruddin Khan, 49, who authorities said lives in Schaumburg, but whose court records give an address of the 100 block of East 34th Street in Steger, was ordered held in lieu of $500,000 bail today in a hearing in Cook County’s Markham Branch Court, according to court records and a news release from the Cook County state’s attorney’s office. Khan faces charges of solicitation for murder and solicitation of murder for hire, which are Class X felonies.
Investigators learned early in August that Khan wanted to find someone to pay $10,000 to kill his wife and her boyfriend, according to prosecutors.
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The state’s attorney’s office and Illinois State Police worked together to investigate the case, and an undercover officer pretended to be a hit man, according to the release.
The undercover officer spoke to Khan on the phone Aug. 25, and on Aug. 26, they met in what prosecutors said was “a suburban Home Depot store parking lot,” according to the release.
In the meeting, Khan told the undercover officer that his wife and her boyfriend could be found at a home he owned in South Chicago Heights, prosecutors said.
Khan told the officer that he did “not care how (it’s) done as long as they both are dead,” according to the release.
Khan gave the undercover officer a floor plan of the house, as well as directions, and said the supposed hit man could take Khan’s wife’s jewelry box from her bedroom, so police would think burglary was the motive for the killings, prosecutors said.
The reason Khan wanted his wife and boyfriend dead was so Khan could teach his daughter “good habits and good culture,” prosecutors said Khan told the undercover officer.
Khan was arrested Thursday by investigators, including the Cook County sheriff’s office, according to court records. He is scheduled to appear in court again Sept. 26.