A Wisconsin woman was convicted in an assassination plot after police say she flew to England, donned a disguise, and tried to shoot a man at point-blank range, all for a “long-distance lover” she met online.

Aimee Betro, 44, was convicted Tuesday on charges including conspiracy to murder and possession of a firearm with intent in Birmingham Crown Court, after trying to carry out a bizarre “revenge plot” targeting the family of a clothing shop owner in Birmingham, England who had been feuding with her romantic suitor and his family, according to the Crown Prosecution Service in the West Midlands.

“Only Betro knows what truly motivated her or what she sought to gain from becoming embroiled in a crime that meant she traveled hundreds of miles from Wisconsin to Birmingham to execute an attack on a man she did not know,” Specialist Prosecutor Hannah Sidaway, of the Crown Protection Service in the West Midlands, said in a statement after the conviction. “The jury clearly agreed this was a planned hit which failed.”

Aimee Betro makes second shooting attempt at shop owner’s home

After changing her clothes, Betro returned to the home several hours later in a cab — which she’d arranged using the fake name “Becky Booth.”

“The taxi dropped her near the family home, where CCTV captured her distinctive trousers and toe-capped shoes as she approached the property,” prosecutors said in their statement. “She fired three shots through the windows — two bullets penetrating the bay window and one going through the bedroom window, causing extensive damage to the family home.” 

Then, Betro sent a taunting text message to the shop owner from an unregistered phone that she later discarded, police said.

The text read: “Stop playing hide n seek. You’re lucky it jammed. Who is it? Your family or you? Pick one.”

Aimee Betro, Mohammed Nazir seek revenge on another man

Betro then fled England, flying back to the United States on Sept. 9, 2019, authorities said. Nazir soon joined her and the pair attempted to target another one of Nazir’s rivals.

While in the U.S., Betro sent three packages containing illegal ammunition and firearm components, using a false name, to a man in Derbyshire, a county in the East Midlands of England. 

Nazir tipped police off about the package and the man was briefly arrested before the revenge plot unraveled, prosecutors said.

Betro was convicted of being knowingly concerned in the fraudulent evasion of a prohibition on the importation of ammunition in connection with that plot. 

Building the case against Aimee Betro 

Authorities were able to identify Betro as a suspect in the failed hit after poring through surveilance footage, which captured her buying burner phones in Birmingham, repeatedly scoping out the victim’s house before the attack, approaching the victim with a gun “clearly visible in her hand” and fleeing in the damaged Mercedes, authorities said. 

They also used mobile phone data, witness testimony and digital forensics to build the case against her.

“This is a unique case which has involved a huge amount of work tracing the movements of Betro from her arrival into the UK, her subsequent failed attempt to shoot a man dead, and her departure from the UK,” Detective Chief Inspector Alastair Orencas, of the West Midlands Police Major Crime Unit, said in a statement. “It’s by luck that her attempt to kill her target failed, thanks to the jamming of her gun.”

An international manhunt was soon launched to track her down, but Betro fled to Armenia and remained on the run for years. She was arrested in Armenia in July of 2024 and extradited back to the UK to face the charges against her.

She’s scheduled to be sentenced for the crimes on Aug. 21, 2025.

Nazir was convicted last year for the charges against him, including conspiracy to murder, and was sentenced to 32 years behind bars, prosecutors said. His father, Aslam, was sentenced to 10 years for his role in the failed revenge plot.