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. Listen to Kill List on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts: Wondery.fm/Kill_List You can listen to Kill List and more Exhibit C true crime shows like Morbid early and ad-free right now by joining Wondery+. Check out Exhibit C in the Wondery App for all your true crime listening. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
I'm Carl Miller, the host of the podcast kill list.
One night, a hacker breaks into a dark web murder for hyacinth, uncovering a chilling cache of documents called the Kill list.
It details hundreds of names around the globe, complete with faces, addresses, as well as payments and instructions for their murders.
When a murder disguised as a suicide shakes a quiet suburbanite, a hacker connects the victim to the kill list.
With local police slow to act, he turns to an unsuspecting investigative journalist to help.
Thats me.
When law enforcement decide not to investigate, our team is forced to take matters into our own hands, a decision that plunges us into a high stakes race to warn those whose lives are in danger.
And it turns out convincing a total stranger that someone wants them dead is not easy.
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All right, you ready?
Yep.
It's a Thursday afternoon, and I'm on a call with one of my producers.
The road outside my house is almost totally silent.
On my computer, I open Chris's document.
Oh, wow.
There's a lot on here.
Yeah.
Chris has run me through the orders, but this is the first time I've got my hands on the kill list itself.
It's a long spreadsheet of names, locations, telephone numbers.