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The crazy tale behind Silk Road’s missing bitcoin

November 5, 2020

News today is reporting that bitcoin worth just shy of $1 billion, believed belonging to Silk Road and dormant since Ross Ulbricht’s arrest in 2013,

The victim in “3 Guys, 1 Hammer”

September 23, 2020

Most of you would have heard of the Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs, two Ukrainian teenagers when went on a two-week killing spree in 2007. By the time

Behind the Casefiles – Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs

October 5, 2018

The 8-minute video “3 Guys, 1 Hammer” is infamous. I wanted to discover the story behind it. This is another entry into my series of a behind-the-scenes

Behind the scenes of a CBS 48 Hours story on dark web hitmen

October 4, 2018

How I became a dark web consultant to a TV show, and my somewhat complicated relationship with the owner of the most profitable online murder-for-hire

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 drugs markets – more TripAdvisor than Amazon

September 17, 2018

They used to be known as the “Amazon” or “eBay” of drugs, but modern dark web drug sales use a system more comparable to Yelp or

The Darkest Web

February 15, 2018

Apologies for the lack of posts for a very long time. I’ve been busy finishing my latest book, and it went on sale on 14

Real Folk of the Dark Web

September 12, 2017

A couple of weeks ago I got back from an 8-week trip around the globe to meet with all manner of dark web types in

Dark Web LSD stalwarts jesusofrave in their own words

November 9, 2016

Jesusofrave is one of the most enduring brand names of the darknet markets, as a wholesale supplier of MDMA and LSD. They have some major plans for the near future, including providing significant assistance and donations to organizations using psychedelics in therapy. Here they talk about how they started and why they do what they do

Interview: Eileen Ormsby, Author of Silk Road & All Things VICE

July 9, 2016

Neat little interview I did with a fellow blogger

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