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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 Road user known as “redandwhite”. If my the...

https://eileenormsby.com/2018/11/22/the-recently-arrested-redandwhite-one-of-silk-roads-greatest-nemeses/

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 service in history I recently worked as a co...

https://eileenormsby.com/2018/10/04/behind-the-scenes-of-a-cbs-48-hours-story-on-dark-web-hitmen/

The man alleged to be Silk Road’s Variety Jones, Roger Thomas Clark, has finally been extradited from Thailand, where he has spent 2 1/2 years in Bangkok Remand, to face trial in the USA. Varie...

https://eileenormsby.com/2018/06/16/variety-jones-in-the-usa/

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 of freelance writers. Here’s what Besa M...

https://eileenormsby.com/2017/10/13/murder-they-wrote-freelancing-for-a-dark-web-hitman/

Below is a callout to DNM vendors to share their views about DNMs and the perceptions of others about what you do. I know some of the independent researchers involved in this initiative personal...

https://eileenormsby.com/2017/09/01/dnm-vendors-have-your-say/

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 new US President. “Donald Trump is an extremely difficu...

https://eileenormsby.com/2017/02/02/dark-webs-crimebay-raising-funds-for-a-hit-on-trump/

  A couple of people have asked me about the book I mentioned in my last post. I recently threw in my nice, steady, well-paying but ultimately creatively unfulfilling tech-writing job. So h...

https://eileenormsby.com/2016/10/06/what-ozfreelancer-did-next/

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 the blog. So in desperation, I’ve been clicking on random links from O...

https://eileenormsby.com/2016/09/27/so-whats-been-happening-on-the-dark-web/

There’s nothing like an inaccurate, poorly-written, unresearched defamatory piece of garbage journalism to bring people out of the woodwork. So I have to thank one Ms Margi Murphy for this la...

https://eileenormsby.com/2016/06/17/a-word-from-one-of-the-silk-road-old-guard/

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 through the blockchain, that...

https://eileenormsby.com/2016/05/18/ugly-kids-are-cheaper-the-besa-files/