Chippendale Dad Hired Hitman Dressed As Ninja To Slay Wife & Two Family Members; 6-Year-Old Daughter Saw Killing Unfold

CBS4 reports that a former Chippendale dancer hired a hitman from jail to kill his wife and family. Surviving relatives say they aren’t safe even with the man who tried to have them killed behind bars.

The Chippendale dad, Christopher Wells, was a once dashing dancer, but has become addicted to methamphetamine and became increasingly hostile. After years of increased drug use, and a restraining order barring Wells from having contact with his wife and daughter, Amara Wells took her daughter and moved into the home of her brother-in-law, Robert Rafferty. Rafferty is the husband of Tammy Wells, Christopher’s sister.

Amara Wells feared that her husband would harm her. But on February 23, 2011, Wells was harmed and eventually killed at what is believed to be her ex-husband’s request.

Police found a very gruesome scene last February 2011 at the home of Robert and Tammy Rafferty.

At the end of the trail of human teeth that they saw lay the body of Robert Rafferty, an ordained minister, in a pool of his very own blood.

He has a gunshot wound, stab wounds in the neck, and evidence show that he was beaten.

The body of Wells, the Chippendale dad’s ex-wife, lay nearby. The deep gash in her neck was visible but the body was too bloody for police to see any gunshot wound.

The intruders attempted to burn the house down, which was located at Castle Rock, Colorado.

A man dressed as a ninja entered the Rafferty home and brutally slayed Robert Rafferty, 49, and Amara Wells, all the while, Well’s 6-year-old daughter Alex saw the killings, petrified with what was unfolding.

Investigations would reveal that Rafferty struggled and fought to his death in order to protect the 6-year-old.

The Douglas County, CO sheriff’s department’s Sergeant Jason Weaver was among the first to arrive at the scene and would later share all the gory details, as well as one uplifting part of the story.

Alex, the 6-year-old who saw what happened to her mother and uncle, was doing her best to stay strong.

Weaver told ABC “I have never seen a child go through such trauma and be so strong.” He continues to say, “That little girl is absolutely nothing more than amazing.”

According to the prosecutors, Alex woke up and saw the attacks. She then ran to her neighbor’s to call 911.

Investigators logically suspected that Chris Wells, who had been arrested four times for deliberately violating restraining orders his wife held,

After further investigations, it turned out that Wells hired a former co-worker, 27-year-old Josiah Sher, to commit the crime. High on cocaine and wearning a ninja outfit, Sher broke into the victim’s home and shot and stabbed Rafferty and Wells. An accomplice, Matthew Plake, waited in the getaway vehicle that allowed Sher to escape after he committed the crime.

Wells contracted Sher through a middle-man, Micah Woody, who offered the 27-year-old $5,000 per person killed. The targets were Well’s sister, Tammy, his wife Amara, and brother-in-law Robert Rafferty.

Woody and Plake were sentenced to 46 years in prison for their cursory roles in the crime.

Sher and Woods were sentenced to life in prison.

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