Murder on the Dark Web: True tales from the dark side of the internet

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A look into the dark side of the internet's secret underbelly The dark web is the internet's evil twin, where anything can be bought and sold. Drugs, weapons, and hackers-for-hire are available at the touch of a button. Most who visit merely look around, happy to simply satisfy their curiosity before leaving, never to return. But some are sucked into the criminal underworld and find themselves doing things they would never have contemplated in the real world—ordering a hit on a love rival or bidding on an auction for a sex slave - like the people in this book. A Minnesota dog trainer is found dead of an apparent suicide after detectives find her details on a dark web murder-for-hire site. But who paid $13,000 in Bitcoin to kill this devout Christian and beloved wife and mother? A Page-3 glamour model is drugged, kidnapped and listed for sale on a dark web human trafficking site. A secret society called Black Death demands a ransom for her safe return, or else she will be sold to sadistic millionaires to use before feeding to the tigers. These are extraordinary true tales of infidelity, betrayal and shadowy hitmen and human traffickers who may not be that they seem. Book 2 of the Dark Webs True Crime series The stories in this volume contain extended versions of two scripts originally written for the Casefile True Crime podcast: - Amy Allwine - Chloe Ayling Featuring: - Besa Mafia dark web murder-for-hire / hitman site - Black Death group dark web human trafficking site Written by world expert on the dark web and darknet markets, Eileen Ormsby PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR 'Ormsby's investigative journalism shines' - Penthouse Magazine What pulls you through The Darkest Web isn't its often-nefarious, sometimes-gory details, but Ormsby's handling of three progressively intense narrative arcs The Guardian Riveting Who Magazine Ormsby has delivered a triumph of narrative journalism, meticulously researched and gripping, a skilful mergence of tech jargon with human drama The Saturday Paper The book is a fascinating expose of this particular aspect of the "dark web" of internet dealings and its subsequent unravelling Sydney Morning Herald The darkness has become a repository for human cruelty, perversion and psychosis, and Ormsby captures all the tragedy in her gripping book The Australian A great strength of the meticulously researched Silk Road is the manner in which Ormsby gently takes the reader by the hand, unpacking the technology underpinning this 'dark net' market Australian Police Journal A disillusioned corporate lawyer turned writer from Australia, Eileen's new book, The Darkest Web, is the story of her journey, from drug markets and contract killing sites to the Internet's seediest alcoves. But the most startling moments of the book happen when she comes face-to-face with some of its key players VICE From the Internet's hidden drug dens to torture-porn websites, Ormsby has seen it all. If you've ever wondered what the Dark Web is really like, Darkest Web should be on your TBR Bustle Magazine "The Best New True Crime Books You Can Read Right Now" Investigative journalism that gallops along at a cracking pace SMH Good Weekend Through her clear rendering of the facts, Ormsby makes the intricacies of the technology involved accessible to even the most technophobic of readers. The tone is conversational and friendly while the content is intriguing and increasingly dark. Newtown Review of Books Ormsby is a great writer, giving us gripping accounts from the people who actually used "Silk Road" . . . Silk Road is easily one of the best books I've read this year The Library NZ Silk Road is one of the more readable and gripping true crime books of recent times. The Australian