The neonatal doctor charged with hiring hitmen on the dark web to maim a co-worker and kidnap and torture his estranged wife in a plot to win her back is expected to strike a deal with federal prosecutors next week.
Ronald Ilg, 55, of Spokane, Washington, previously pleaded not guilty to a slew of charges including cyberstalking, witness tampering, and attempted kidnapping. Last week, his attorney, Carl Oreskovtich, inquired as to whether a court would soon be available if defense and prosecution could reach an agreement. A change of plea hearing is not scheduled for next Wednesday.
As recently as , Ilg was a physician who treated infants as the chief medical director at a multi-state neonatology group in the northwest. Ronald Ilg, 55, of Spokane, Wash. But his life began to fall apart in the spring of , after co-workers filed behavior complaints against him and he was fired from his job in December The previous spring his wife had filed for divorce, and after he lost his job he became erratic and obsessive, harassing her in an effort to win her back despite multiple restraining orders.
All the while Ilg was having a BDSM affair with a mistress, which involved a sex-slave contract signed in blood and a sex-dungeon bunker buried on his property.
Ilg was connected to the solicitations and transactions - which he conducted under the username Scar - by a team of British journalists investigating dark web activity.
