This, police believe, was not a random abduction and murder, but the culmination of a carefully planned arrangement between Sonia and a 54-year-old pagan worshipper that had been two years in the making.
When police interrogated her suspected killer, Dwain Hall, he told them that she had agreed to pay $4,000 (£3,000) for her own torture and death.
What drove a young woman from a seaside village near Portsmouth into the arms of a self-avowed violent sadist in the alligator-infested backwaters of Marion County?
Through police reports, court documents and interviews with friends and family of those involved, The Telegraph has pieced together the life and final moments of Sonia Exelby.
Watch the full investigation on our channel now and read the full story here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/sonia-exelby-british-woman-florida-man-dwain-hall/
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Sonia Exelby: Why the young British woman paid a man to kill her
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