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Real Crime Profile / Wondery

True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

4.2 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In the depths of the dark net, tech journalist Carl Miller makes a disturbing discovery: a secret Kill List targeting hundreds of innocent people on a murder for hire website. When the police decide not to investigate, Carl is thrown into a race against time to warn those in danger and uncover the truth about the people who want them dead. From Wondery and Novel, comes a true story about obsession, control and the price of life and death.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Carl Miller the host of the podcast Kill List. One night a hacker breaks into a dark
0:06.4	web murder for hire site uncovering a chilling cache of documents called the
0:11.6	Kill List. It details hundreds of names around the of documents and instructions for their murders.
0:12.8	It details hundreds of names around the globe, complete with faces, addresses,
0:18.2	as well as payments and instructions for their murders.
0:21.8	When a murder disguised as a suicide
0:23.8	shakes a quiet suburb, a hacker connects the victim
0:27.3	to the kill list.
0:28.8	With local police slow to act,
0:30.7	he turns to an unsuspecting investigator journalist to help.
0:34.0	That's me.
0:35.0	When law enforcement decide not to investigate,
0:38.0	our team is forced to take matters into our own hands.
0:41.0	A decision that plunges us into a high stakes race to warn those
0:45.8	whose lives are in danger. And it turns out, convincing a total stranger that someone
0:51.6	wants them dead is not easy. I'm about to play a
0:55.4	clip from Killlist. Follow Killlist on the Rondry app or wherever you get your
0:59.7	podcasts. costs. All right, you ready? Yeah.
1:12.9	It's a Thursday afternoon, and I'm on a call with one of my producers.
1:17.5	The road outside my house is almost totally silent.
1:21.5	On my computer, I open Chris's document.
1:24.0	Oh wow, there's a lot on here.
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