A Cleveland Heights woman with an apparent passion for animal rights remains in federal custody today. Federal prosecutors say she tried to hire an assassin through Facebook to kill “someone who is wearing fur.”
Federal agents arrested Meredith Lowell, 27, Tuesday morning at her home, charged with solicitation to commit murder.
After her initial appearance Tuesday in U.S. District Court, her case was bound over to a grand jury. A detention hearing is set for next Tuesday.
A 14-page affidavit describes a person who wanted someone slain for wearing fur near the Coventry Branch of Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library. In online correspondence with an undercover federal agent, she said she wanted to be present, and was prepared to hand out information about the fur industry after the killing was consummated.
Lowell, according to the federal document, corresponded with an undercover federal operative between November and this month.
The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force and Cleveland Heights police began investigating after the bureau received information in early November that a woman using the name Anne Lowery was trying to solicit a killer on Facebook.
The woman, who prosecutors say was Lowery, wrote that “I would like to create an online community on facebook whi8ch would allow me to find someone who is willing to kill someone wearing fur toward the end of October 2011 or early November 2011 or possibly in January 2012 or February 2012 at the latest.”
She wanted the person to live in Northeast Ohio and offered “to pay this person up to $830-$850 which is far more than I was originally willing to pay.”
Lowell, writing as Lowery, variously referred to the potential slaying as a hit, a demonstration and a protest, and wondered on Facebook whether she should bring fur advertisements collected during some unspecified investigation into the fur industry, according to the affidavit.
The FBI subpoenaed Facebook account information to help identify Lowell as the woman calling herself Anne Lowery.
At one point, the federal agent urged Lowell to take down comment on her Facebook page about murdering anyone, and she appears to have complied.
In a mid-November email between her and the agent, outside of Facebook, she said she could only afford to pay $730, and advised him “top bring a gun that has a silencer on it and that can be easily concealed in your pants pocket or coat. Do not wear anything that even remotely looks like fur. If you do not want to risk the possibility if getting caught with a gun before the job, bring a sharp knife that is at least 4 inches long.”
She went on to specify that she wanted the person “to be dead in less than 2 minutes (under 2 minutes or 1 minute or less would be better.)”
In another message she told the agent “I am paying you to kill one person wearing fur who is 12 or older (but hopefully at least 14 years however 12 years old or older is fine.)”
She went on to write that “I plan on staying after the hit for reasons of benefit to the movement. And I think being caught would actually benefit me personally.”
In a later note, she said she wanted to linger at the site of the hit “partially to get away from the house,” and also wrote disdainfully of family members who ate meat, wore leather, or otherwise appeared indifferent to her cherished cause. [source]
This chick looks a few snap and krackles short of a rice crispie bowl.
Heffa needs her head looked at or …. should kinda sorta .. made to disappear.
Put her, PETA and all their lil pals on a boat and ship em off into the pacific….. then nuke that ish.
Thanks to chemmie for the send in








Really bish? You think that this "murder" is better than the other "murder" that you advocate against? This makes you no better than the people you so vehemently despise.
nah, it makes her worse. People kill who kill animals for fur wear them to be warm. She's looking to kill someone just to make a point… This chick needs to go back to debate school and learn to use her damn words.
"This chick looks a few snap and krackles short of a rice crispie bowl."
YES.
This fool is dumber than a bag of hammers.
As sharp as talcolm powder.
Her elevator doesn't go to the top floor….
I could keep going…
A few clowns shy of a circus.
Grain silo is empty.
and my personal favorite: Surfing in Nebraska.
Surfing in Nebraska.
Love it!
I've said it before and I will say it again. If people like this and the people of PETA would put as much time effort and money into protecting human rights, this world would be a better place to live. I can think of a slue of causes more worthy then animal rights. How about the sex/ human trafficking issues we have or domestic violence against women or the abuse women in the middle east are left to because of old traditions and values. How about child hunger or homelessness or…..
I digress
Sure, find an assassin on Facebook. Like they will be on a rooftop, looking through a scope and updating their status. "I wish that bish would come on so I can shoot her. My fingers are cramping! FML"
LMAO!
You want to push for safer farming practices? Go for it. It will benefit everyone.
You want to march against puppy mills and get them shut down? Absolutely! Be my guest, go after 'em.
You want to kill someone over clothing choice? I will cheer for everyone involved who puts your useless ass in jail.
You try to hire a hitman from Facebook? I am so laughing at you. Dumb Azz.
Since she's an animal lover –
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very fitting
i froze at the 12 or older line. so she was okay with having the blood of children on her hands? batshyt doesn't even begin to describe her. but somehow still this isn't advocated in the extreme to harm people who wear fur. that kind of propaganda isn't your responsibility as it's your right to say what you feel…mmkay.
That was the worst part of this story to me too. She would kill someone's CHILD!!!!!!
IKR?! A 14 year old is good, but if all you could get was a 12 yr. old that'll do. And she wants to
linger around after the murder to hand out pamphlets, this woman is sick beyond cure.
I say put her azz out in the wild, with the animals she loves so much. Give her a trenching tool to dig a shelter, and some flint to start a fire. Give it one week, she'll show up wearing a elk skin coat and badger slippers.
i wonder if the people of peta realize the world really hates them. and who the hell advertises this mess on facebook?
She got the face of an albino ferret.
SON!!!!
::crashes::
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS IN THE HOOOOOOOOOUSE!!!!
CRAP! How you post a damn gif on here again?
My usual code aint workin…Thinkin Google Chrome won't let me be great!
her weird eyes are scaring me…
She looks like that girl in college that talks really fast and wants to marry after you sat next to her in the cafeteria because there were no other seats… I'm just sayin'…
Say no more!
What he look like?
Where he be at?
Need dat stack first!
Im'ma mop that bull.
*dead* You took it all the way back to that last idiot who tried to hire a hit-man off Facebook.
She's obviously not too smart, but too bad she didn't succeed.
And for the person who wrote this article, you and the rest of you should all be shipped off to an island and bombed.