Contract killing

Killer Petey

March 8, 2023

This week, one of the world’s most prolific serial killers, Pedro Rodrigues Filho, known as Pedrinho Matador, or “Killer Petey”, was murdered in Brazil. Despite

Behind the Casefiles: Amy Allwine

September 19, 2018

I have been writing episodes of the excellent true-crime podcast Casefile and as I’ve been rather slack in updating this blog lately, I thought I

Dark Web’s CrimeBay raising funds for a hit on Trump

February 2, 2017

CrimeBay, the new incarnation of Besa Mafia, has stepped up its marketing with a new attempt to extort money by crowdfunding a hit on the

Ugly kids are cheaper – The Besa Files

May 18, 2016

Another story from the dark web “murder-for-hire” site hack. Read The Curious Case of Besa Mafia first. There are stories of people paying real money, verifiable

The Little Texas Hit that Wasn’t

May 16, 2016

The hack of dark web “murder-for-hire” outfit Besa Mafia, which I wrote about a couple of days ago. has provided a treasure trove of

Hitting on the Aussies – the Besa Mafia files

May 15, 2016

Before the recent hack confirmed definitively what rational people already knew – i.e. that the dark web “murder-for-hire” site was a scam – it was

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