"I hope you both fall off a cliff and die," Sasser told D.W., reported NBC News. In court docs, said Sasser became upset when he told her he was getting married. One inquiry, just last week, was trying to secure a hit man in NYC
Chris Monteiro is a UK-based hacker and dark web vigilante who gains access to transactions between buyers and sellers on these sites. One site, which we have chosen not to name, claims to offer "contract murder" from $15,000 (£12,600) and "beatings" from $2,000 (£1,600). Sky News contacted several of these websites to see if they would put someone forward for interview to discuss their operations.
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- When handing down the sentence, Monroe Circuit Judge Daniel White said to Wendy, “If the intent wasn’t so serious here, this would be almost comical.
- He passed her details to the police, and she was convicted of soliciting murder.
- Despite no murder taking place, judges are unlikely to have much leniency.
- Both stood to gain an inheritance, but police quickly eliminate Brandon Brigham as a suspect.
- As it was, he was simply a conman who scammed would-be murderers out of their bitcoin and never carried out any hits.
When the mission is complete, the money will be released to the hitman. From guns and illicit drugs to hacker services and even murder for hire services. Murder for hire websites, it sounds chilling, but the harsh reality is they’re out there. "People are going to these sites and providing details of the person they want killed, such as where they work, where they live and how much they're willing to pay." It's not clear if the photographs are real or genuinely linked to the services the websites claim to offer.
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Mohamed told her he knew a guy he could talk to about it. Why settle for half of his money at most when she could eliminate Michael from the equation (and this mortal coil) altogether? And the fact that the only monetary reward Bob Innes is asking for is for people to support his coffee habit through merch sales, we’ll support that as well.
I think it says something about modern masculinity and what happens when people do lose control of a partner, and then lose control of themselves and the role technology plays in allowing people to control people. It’s not like a conviction ends the suffering or the hurt for a lot of the victims so it’s hard to feel too jubilant,” he says. Miller met each legal success with “grim relief” because behind each case was a personal tragedy. The investigation led to 34 arrests and 28 convictions in 11 countries, with over 150 years of custodial time.
According to The Guardian, the website was a scam run by a Romanian crook who had no intention of providing the sinister services. "We didn’t anticipate it, but Chris began to send us these live kill orders. Most of the story of the podcast is us scrambling to try and deal with all of that, trying to make sense of it and trying to react in a responsible way." "It also moved to justifications for why the person needs to die," he shared. "Some of these kill orders would go on, page after page," Miller recalled.
But one person in particular that they contacted stuck with me. It’s a wild adventure and you really should go and listen to it. They’d phone back with their friends and they’d prank me and they’d pretend it’s a big joke.
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The crime is typically classified as a felony, with instances involving a greater degree of risk to human life or property carrying a stricter penalty. Arson is the crime of willfully and deliberately setting fire to or charring property. His tragic descent into murder is a stark reminder that no matter how deep you go, the truth always finds a way to surface.
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The security analyst Christopher Monteiro gained access to the backend of the first scam site run by this group, Besa Mafia, in 2016, allowing him to see a full inventory of the ordered “hits,” which he would then pass along to the authorities. Once there, users were asked to submit their target, information about how and when they would like them killed, and to pay a fee, typically $5,000-20,000, in Bitcoin. Since its inception in the 2010s, the operation has funneled users searching for ways to hire an assassin online to a site on the dark web.
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“It is a moral right to scam criminals and would be murderers if this helps saving victims.” Maybe the most interesting question, though, is whether Yura, aka Barbosa, is a police informer. Samwel added that Bryan’s computer, camera and two phones had vanished, which is strange, as Bryan – a small-time Instagram and YouTube celebrity – was inseparable from his devices.
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At the station, an NCA officer told him he had been arrested for incitement to murder, in connection with Besa Mafia. Seconds later, a red battering ram smashed through the white door and armed police officers rushed in. Evidence of the first murder linked to Besa Mafia emerged shortly after Monteiro met up with two police officers and seven months after Besa Mafia’s takedown. Yura had no hitmen to deploy, Monteiro thought, but what if some of the website’s customers decided to take matters into their own hands, and kill their target themselves? Of people who other people wanted to kill. One such freelancer, a Kolkata-based consultant called Santosh Sharma, told me in July 2018 that Yura – who had used the name of Andreeab when dealing with him – had paid him in bitcoin.
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So, not only was this young boy abused; he was almost killed by this guy. Not only that, but money is actually being sent to pay for this. Oh, and it’s kind of hilarious that Chris is basically hacking into this site, since it might technically be illegal for him to do that. Just because you’re on the dark web, just because you’re on a site that is supposedly very illegal, does not mean it’s actually secure. At the end, it’s like, Message ID 123.
They do — that has happened sometimes. It’s like, oh, I wonder who that person could be. Or this person should be given a message; that’s for being a cheater. Like, oh, this person should return to their husband.
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Husbands ordered hits on their wives, business partners sought assassins for their colleagues, a man who lost money on a sports betting website asked to murder the customer service rep who failed to return it to him, and a predator paid to arrange the death of a 14 year-old boy. Despite the publicity such cases bring to his website, Innes says he still gets online requests from people who want to hire a hit man. The woman told Innes she was a British citizen living in Ontario, Canada, and that the three people she wanted killed had stolen her father’s inheritance. Two years later, another murder-for-hire solicitation hit his inbox.
“We even found 'testimonials' pages that were just links to murders covered in the news. What’s more, the eCommerce style setup, complete with shopping baskets, just makes things far too convenient for a would-be murder conspirator. The websites frequently talk about anonymity and have guarantees everywhere but have no mention of using a specific, trusted, escrow. The researchers pointed out that, despite being covered in trust-signals, all of the sites just felt untrustworthy. Attempting to hire an assassin on the dark web is extremely dangerous and will likely result in significant legal consequences. As the title says I need someone eliminated, and money is no issue.
A California-based person going by name Thcjohn2 had written to the website offering his services as an assassin. A more professional assassin could be hired, but that would cost more bitcoin. To prove they had the wherewithal to pay, they were required to make an advance bitcoin transfer to a digital wallet – from which, the website assured, its clients would be able to withdraw their funds any time. He created a customer account, calling himself Boaty McBoatFace and requested a hit on a fictional person he called Bob the Builder. The edit, Monteiro says, added something to the effect of “all assassination sites are scams, except for Besa Mafia, which is real”, appending a link to a dark web site.
