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Crime

The Final Confessions of a Silk Road Kingpin

How a 40-year-old IT consultant became nod, one of Silk Road’s highest volume heroin dealers, who turned informant and then fugitive.

Patrick Howell O'Neill The Daily Dot Jan 2014 20min Permalink

Crime Tech World

The Heartbreaking Case of Zhu Ling

How the case of a poisoned college student in China, cold for 18 years, has suddenly turned into “what may be the largest amateur online manhunt in history.”

Kevin Morris The Daily Dot May 2013 15min Permalink