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The Dark Web: Exploring the 'murder-for-hire' sites

This Is Why

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Is Someone Wanting to Kill You?

The FBI closed Alexis's case in 2019 when she got a letter from the FBI saying the United States Attorney's Office has declined to prosecute without explaining why it was dropped. Chris Monteiro is a hacker or a Doc Web vigilante based in the UK who's been exposing the people who run these murder for hire websites. There has been some cases in Russia, a murder arranged for a dark net and even an allegation of someone actually running a small scale murder for hire website again in Russia.

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