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The Hitmen Of The Dark Web

In 2008, a recent high school graduate found out someone was trying to have her killed. The method? An online marketplace of hired assassins operating on the dark web. Technology writer Brian Merchant joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the surprising and shadowy world of crowd-sourced contract killers. His article “Click Here to Kill: The Dark World of Online Murder Markets” appears in Harper’s magazine.