Ten years after Silk Road falls, Variety Jones is sentenced
July 15, 2023
The sentencing of Silk Road’s Variety Jones, aka Plural of Mongoose, aka cimon, aka Ross Ulbricht’s mentor, aka Roger Thomas Clark was held at 10:00am
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Tying up Silk Road’s loose ends: Redandwhite
May 19, 2023
The Silk Road saga continues with the indictment of James Ellingson, known by numerous aliases on the platform, most famously as ‘redandwhite’. But is he
The recently arrested “redandwhite”: one of Silk Road’s greatest nemeses
November 22, 2018
I was blown away today to read the news that one of the Silk Road arrests, James Ellingson, aka “MarijuanaIsMyMuse” is apparently also the Silk
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
Murder, they wrote – freelancing for a dark web hitman
October 13, 2017
Dark web murder-for-hire organisation Besa Mafia never paid any of their would-be hitmen for burning cars for them. The only people paid were their army
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
So what’s been happening on the Dark Web?
September 27, 2016
The problem with writing a new book is that you save all the good stuff for the book and that leaves you with nothing for
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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