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It's about 5 o'clock in the evening.

Kind of a sleepy January day in Wisconsin.

It's been overcast all day. There's snow on the ground.

Local reporter Dylan Brogan is driving through the suburbs of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.

When we first gave him a call, he was in the middle of resurrecting his local newspaper,

which had gone out of business at the start of the pandemic.

Dylan is in his mid-30s, thick-rimmed glasses, short brown hair,

and he combined a reporter's bookishness with intrepid bravery.

He agreed to help us make contact with Travis Harper, a former Marine and father of three young daughters, who we believe is in imminent danger.

Target needs to be killed. He is a white 5-5-male, dark brown short hair. Blue eyes, weighs 165 pounds.

Works at airport. Sell is violent. He is violent. It is a little unbelievable that somebody

would want to murder someone in this way, and it's just a little bit unfathomable.

A user by the alias Malik 8 has paid more than $5,000 to a hitman for hire website on the dark net for Travis's murder.

All right, here goes nothing.

Dylan parks up the road and heads for Travis's door on foot.

Hey, um, hey, my name is Dylan. Are you Travis?

What do you mean? Um, well, it's kind of a long story, but I'm a journalist.

And they want to talk to you about this investigation they've been doing, about something

you haven't been doing about something to have to do with DoFo.

You're not in trouble at all at third.

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