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There's one guy and I only have his name and the city he lives in.

How can I hire a killer to kill him?

What if I told you that all over the world,

there are hundreds of people with no idea that somebody wants them dead.

I want her to be killed,

but it should seem she is dead because of accident, not by murder.

Out there, in the dark underbelly of the internet,

there is a secret kill list.

Seeking house to be burned down with occupants inside.

No survivors. And I can see it. I'm Carl Miller.

I'm a journalist and author. And since 2020, I've been part of a team working in secret

to stop people getting murdered.

We're in the worst possible position, I could think.

Like, the world is on fire.

We're in the middle of a global pandemic meaning we can't leave our houses.

We found ourselves in the middle of a live assassination market,

and we don't even have any policy or moral guidance yet in terms of what we actually do.

I don't know, man. It looks like a big Pandora's box that we're opening.

And once you open it, it's open, man. I don't think we can put it shut.

It would become my job to tell complete strangers that someone has paid to have them killed.

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