Published on February 13, 2025 7:15 PM GMT
Hi all
I've been hanging around the rationalist-sphere for many years now, mostly writing about transhumanism, until things started to change in 2016 after my Wikipedia writing habit shifted from writing up cybercrime topics, through to actively debunking the numerous dark web urban legends.
After breaking into what I believe to be the most successful ever fake murder for hire website ever created on the dark web, I was able to capture information about people trying to kill people all around the world, often paying tens of thousands of dollars in Bitcoin in the process.
My attempts during this period to take my information to the authorities were mostly unsuccessful, when in late 2016 on of the site a user took matters into his own hands, after paying $15,000 for a hit that never happened, killed his wife himself
Due to my overt battle with the site administrator over this period, he grew frustrated with me, and when sending death threats and burning cars to dissuade me failed to work, it was ultimately commissioning blogs implicating me running the site that means following the murder, the police broke down my door and arrested me for allegedly running the site. I handed over my info and they obviously let me go.
In 2018 participating in a CBS documentary about the 'dark web murder', I accessed the site once again, instigating a handful of arrests in the US and Singapore, and leading to a short-lived relationship with Homeland Security Investigations and precipitating further arrests in the US.
From 2020 until recently I worked with a UK podcast company, with me funneling off the most serious murder plots and they would try and send them to local journalists and law enforcement agencies around the world, with the most successes being in the US. You can listen to 'Kill List' online.
As of 2025 now, this has lead to almost 40 convictions around the world, further more arrests and likely more in the pipeline.
With he podcast production ended, I am exhausted from these efforts. I have scraped sites, triaged records, verified addresses, cross referenced IDs, reconstructed bitcoin payments, automated reports, worked with journalists, many law enforcement agencies, private detectices and incurred both legal fees and the personal and professional opportunity-cost for the significant time and focus I have spent on this over almost 9 years now.
I have about 800 names left on the Kill List, and the financial logistics of investigating them both into developed and developing world appear insurmountable to overcome.
More people on the list I know have been brutally murdered, or died in suspicious circumstances, all because there is no international body to handle such cases effectively, unlike if I were investigating for example drug trafficking or terrorism. More people still have been murdered but I just don't know it yet, and more still will be.
This experience has been mentally and socially taxing, with even close friends unwilling or able to expose themselves to these harrowing murder plots, featuring detailed information about how, why and where people should be killed, likely knowing this information would be harmful to them, both emotionally, and the practical impact of being obligated to taking action like I have.
I have recently put up a donations link in case anyone might sponsor my further investigations, but the absence of a strong call to action from the recent podcast, it has left the incorrect impression that information has been disseminated to the relevant authorities and that it's in good hands.
It's not in good hands, it's just in mine, a chronically ill IT geek who is tired of doing this. And yet I remain the only person with this information that I can't ethically dump on the internet.
Any suggestions?
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