Special Agent Mission - "John" and "Mark"

True Crimecast

Stove Leg Media

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

A 14-year-old boy in Greater Manchester, England, known as "John," became the first person in British legal history to be convicted of inciting his own murder. Feeling isolated, John created six fake online personas to manipulate an older friend, "Mark," into stabbing him, convincing Mark it was a "mission" for the British Secret Service. The episode details the intricate digital deception that led to the 2003 stabbing and John's subsequent conviction, highlighting the disturbing legal and psychological consequences of self-destructive behavior in the digital age.

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0:00.0	Stoveleg Media, Igniting Conversation.
0:10.0	Welcome to True Crime to Go. What can I get for you?
0:17.1	I want to make a true crime salad.
0:19.6	Throw in some special agents.
0:21.6	Throw in some chat rooms.
0:23.3	Throw in some fraud and some wild charges.
0:26.2	Pull up to the second window and we'll see you next crime.
0:32.8	Welcome to True Crime to Go.
0:34.8	I am John here with Jamie.
0:36.1	How you doing, man?
0:37.0	I am doing great. This story
0:39.6	jumped out at me and I've spent way too much time actually thinking about it. And it's a chat room.
0:46.7	So are we going back to like the early 2000s? I mean, yes, we are. All right. 2003. Dude, chat rooms were a big thing.
0:54.2	I don't know that they exist anymore.
0:56.7	I'm sure they do.
0:57.5	I mean, you can chat so many other ways they probably do, but it's probably like dark web, like find body parts to buy kind of situation.
1:04.4	Can you believe that at one point you could get in a chat room with nothing but strangers?
1:09.8	Yeah.
1:10.0	That is so not okay anymore.
1:12.1	That's how like to catch a predator people.
1:14.6	Chris Hansen still catches people that way, right?
1:16.5	Maybe it's private.
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