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Chapter 1: What happened to Amy Allwine?
Aber das Wilde und Schreckliche an der Internetseite, besonders dank der Hilfe von unregulierten Währungen wie Bitcoin, ist, dass sie alle ziemlich anonym bleiben können. Nun, du weißt nie, wer diese Geräte anbietet. Es ist schwer zu finden, wer sie kauft. Und die meisten der Zeit haben die Leute keine Ahnung, dass sie der Ziel sind.
So if you piss off the wrong person, all it takes is a few clicks of the mouse and a quick Bitcoin transaction to land a bullseye on your back.
Ich weiß nicht, ob das heute der Fall ist. Kann ich sagen, dass ich einen guten Wissen über Kryptowährungen habe? Ich sage, dass das wahr ist, aber auch nicht wahr ist. Ich werde es einfach zusammenfassen. Jeder hat eine Wallet, und diese Wallet hat eine Adresse. Wenn du also herausfindest, wer diese Adresse besitzt, kannst du es dann praktisch tracken. You can track things from there.
What if it's just like a fake address? There can't be a fake address. It's gotta be a real address, right? So it can go to another address and then you track it from where the address originally came from, where that's going from there, then when it's going from there, and then when it's going from there. I've worked with cryptocurrency quite a bit. Granted, I'm still learning.
There's a lot of things I might have wrong, so if someone wants to correct me, go ahead. But it is interesting that Das ist wahr. Also, wenn niemand weiß, welches Adress das ist, dann ja, ich meine, es kann versteckt bleiben, aber das Adress kann getrackt werden, wie weit es ist.
Du musst in einige Informationen investieren.
Sie werden es einfach herausfinden. Sie wissen, dass jemand es gesendet hat, richtig? Weil das Adress ist immer noch gelinkt, wer es gesendet hat. Also, wenn sie herausfinden, welches Adress das ist, ich meine, Game Over. Interessant. Auf jeden Fall dachte ich, dass ich alle wissen würde, dass
I guess I just like, okay, this is very off topic and I'll say it really fast. I just don't even understand the concept of Bitcoin.
There's a lot to it.
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Chapter 2: What clues were found at the crime scene?
Es ist eine gute Frage. Ich bin sicher, dass es eine bestimmte Chemie gibt. Es ist wahrscheinlich nur etwas, das du besonders kaufen musst. Ja. Also, unless you plan out everything methodically. Also, the way blood is and how it splatters, I'm sure it would be extremely hard to get every single drop.
Yeah, sometimes there's only one drop that you miss, you know. Also, ähm, ich denke auch, es ist sicher zu sagen, dass, äh, Detektivs sagen, naja, äh, du kannst nicht durch Suizid sterben und dann dein eigenes Krimi-Szenario abschließen. Ja. Nachher, richtig? Also am folgenden Tag haben sie bereits einen Autopsiebericht über Amy's Körper.
Und sie finden, Amy hat irgendwo um 3.15 Uhr am Tag gestorben.
Ich liebe es, wie wir all das so herausfinden können.
Richtig. But they also find evidence that is inconsistent with suicide, mainly because Amy had scopolamine in her system. And this is a drug that is used to treat nausea. And not only was it about 20 times the regular dose, Amy did not have a prescription for that drug. So how did this large of amount of this drug get into her body?
Now, typically in cases like this, the first person that you're going to suspect is the husband. But this becomes a little more complicated for detectives. For starters, Stephen kept saying that he wasn't home during Amy's time of death that day. And while I'm not sure where he claimed to be,
There were other witnesses who said they saw an anonymous vehicle speed away from the house shortly after her time of death. So the husband is saying, I wasn't home at that time, 3.15 p.m. And the neighbors are saying, we also saw an unknown vehicle leaving around that time. Plus, Stephen seems cooperative.
He's willing to go down to the station for questioning, not to mention, there's something else that the police have to consider once they get to know Amy and her past. Because Amy had actually been approached by the FBI the past spring. So Amy was already in law enforcement radar.
But the FBI? Why the FBI?
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Chapter 3: How did detectives investigate the case?
So it turns out the FBI had just learned about a murder-for-hire site on the dark web called the Besa Mafia. And so they had received a giant cache of data, including email exchanges between Besa Mafia and their clients. So basically the FBI uncovered this dark web hit list place that you could hire.
Chapter 4: What evidence suggested foul play?
So they have this website, they have the clients and then the everyday people who were on the hit list. Now, it's important to say that the clients didn't use their real names, obviously. But the people on the hit list, it was their real names. And Amy Alwine was one of them. They also had the username of the person who had ordered the hit on Amy. And it was someone named Dog Day God.
etwas, was ich von dieser Geschichte gelernt habe, war, dass man nicht nur durch Google die dunkle Webseite accessieren kann, sondern man muss eigentlich spezielle Software haben, um Sites wie der Basis der Mafia zu accessieren.
Das Interessante ist, dass diese Technologie tatsächlich von der Militärin geschaffen wurde, um ihre Geheimnisse auf Backdoor-Webseiten zu verstecken, also ist es ein bisschen ironisch, dass The military created this loophole on the internet and now it is used for so much illegal activity. But the Besa Mafia is a whole other level of dark web criminals.
The site claims to be operated by an Albanian Mafia. But it seems like it's run by this evil overlord, a guy who goes by Jura. And basically Jura and his website will recruit anyone who's up for the challenge. Meaning they literally post invites for prospective killers to essentially send in audition tapes to become hitmen for this dark website.
Holy crap.
Ein Quote von einem deiner Videos auf dem Website sagt, wenn man online sucht für, und ich quote, schockiert auf der Straße, wird man viele Nachrichten finden, über Menschen, die in der Straße schockiert werden, von unbekannten Menschen, die schießen und dann gehen. Das sind unsere Hitmen. Wir warten auf dich, um deine Orte zu stellen und dann deine Probleme zu lösen.
Oh mein Gott, ich kann nicht, ich kann nicht, dass es wirklich ist.
Und literally on this website there is a menu of item options from $4,000 for a basic killing to $10,000 for a shoot and run and then something as high as $50,000 for a high profile sniper murder. They say it depends mostly on how challenging the job will be to pull off. Like if the target has a bodyguard, they're going to charge more. And by the way, on this website, you cannot pay with a visa.
The only currency they accept is Bitcoin because of the anonymity, meaning it isn't tied back to anyone's name or IP address. By the time the FBI discovered the base of Mafia, they already had a list of 282 hits on this website that had been ordered across 60 different countries. I mean, there's like 17 year old girls in Canada looking to kill ex-boyfriends on this website.
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