Woman allegedly hired hitman to kill daughter's boyfriend after her grandchildren got head lice

A Florida woman wanted the homeless man her daughter was dating killed because the daughter's children came home with head lice, police said. Pamela Vanorsdale, 50, from New Smyrna Beach, was charged with criminal solicitation to commit murder after police said she tried to hire her former son-in-law to “pop” the proposed victim, Dylan Loveless, 22, “in the head and chest,” New Smyrna Beach police said.

Police learned of the murder-for-hire plot after the ex-son-in-law, Daniel Dionne, 33, of Daytona Beach, approached a Daytona Beach police detective. Dionne said Vanorsdale called him on Thursday at about 9:30pm and asked him to kill Loveless. Vanorsdale said she could provide Dionne with a .25-calibre handgun with two bullets, and that since Loveless is small, two bullets would do the job if Dionne were to “pop him (Loveless) in the head and chest,” investigators said.



In addition to the head lice issue, Vanorsdale said she also wanted Loveless dead because he messed with Dionne's children, choked one of the kids and chased another child with dogs while making sexual comments to the child, police said. The woman suggested Dionne dump Loveless' body in South Carolina. Vanorsdale said she would lure Loveless from the homeless camp by telling Loveless she had work for him.

She said she wanted her handgun back because she could clean it and make it look like it was never fired. Vanorsdale then called Dionne to postpone a scheduled meeting to give him the handgun after Vanorsdale learned Loveless had moved his homeless camp. She told Dionne she would call him back once she learned Loveless' new location. She admitted she asked Dionne to kill Loveless but said she was only joking. Vanorsdale's husband provided police the .25-calibre handgun discussed in the plot to murder Loveless. She is out of jail on $25,000 bail.