Faking A Death
After Jacob and McDaniel commissioned the hit, officers reached out Verikas to inform her of the price put on her head. In order to trick Jacob into thinking that the hit was actually carried out, law enforcement staged photos of Verikas with her hands and feet bound. “I sat in a chair in a warehouse and they zip-tied my hands and my feet and put duct tape around my mouth to make me look as if I had been kidnapped,” Verikas testified in court.