Florida ‘sadist’ charged after allegedly being hired by UK woman to torture and kill her

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A Florida man is behind bars awaiting trial after allegedly killing a young woman who traveled from the United Kingdom to pay him to carry out their plan for her to be “sexually abused, tortured, and murdered,” court records show.

Sonia Exelby of Portsmouth, England, was reported missing in October 2025 by her family when she failed to return home from a trip to the United States, records show.

Text communications to one of Exelby’s friends suggest she’d regretted her decision and wanted to back out of the deal she’d allegedly made with Hall to torture and kill her, records show.

When Hall asks Exelby to tell him “why she is here,” she responds, “Because I’m an awful person.”

When pressed by Hall, Exelby explains, “I’ve crushed everyone who ever loves me.”

Hall later told investigators Exelby didn’t “do what she was supposed to do,” court records show.

She didn’t bring him cash and he was upset, he allegedly told them.

Instead, she gave him her debit card to charge. But he was only able to get $1,200 from it after it was declined several times. Hall is being held in the Marion County Jail on six felony charges and could face the death penalty. His legal representative did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.