 Julius says poverty, lack of jobs, and an increase in the value of land at the coast is driving this disturbing new trend. I spoke to a former hitman who claimed he'd been paid to kill more than 20 people for as little as a few hundred dollars a time. He says it was always the family who ordered the killing. I've done something bad, he says. But according to the law and God, the person who sent me is the guilty one.