Man Admits Hiring Hit Man To Kill Five People

A Kent, Wash., man whose father is imprisoned for murder has pleaded guilty to hiring a hit man to kill his ex-girlfriend and four other people.

Charles E. Corliss Jr. pleaded guilty Monday in King County Superior Court to criminal solicitation to commit murder. He faces 15 years in prison, prosecutors said.

Corliss, 22, paid an undercover Kent police detective $50 to start the murder-for-hire job, court papers show. The full price of the contract was to be negotiated later, prosecutors said.

Corliss - who allegedly wanted the hit man to kill his ex-girlfriend, her brother, stepfather and two friends - first approached a friend about the killings. The friend contacted police.

Corliss has twin children with the ex-girlfriend, who lives in Maple Valley, Wash.

No one was harmed.

Corliss’ father, 55-year-old Charles E. Corliss Sr., is in prison for killing a woman and wounding two other friends of his estranged 23-year-old girlfriend five years ago in Fall City, Wash.