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🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Even after the book Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors was linked to a triple murder in 1993, the true identity of the author has remained hidden. Rex Feral’s actual name can’t be found in court documents, it’s been redacted from case files, and it’s never come out in public. Until now.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. |
| 0:08.0 | What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? |
| 0:12.2 | Answer, a new podcast called Wisecrack, where a comedian finds himself at the center of a chilling true crime story. |
| 0:18.8 | Does anyone know what show they've come to see? It's a story. |
| 0:23.3 | It's about the scariest night of my life. This is Wisecrack, available now. Listen to Wisecrack on |
| 0:30.3 | the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, Jasmine Morris here. |
| 0:37.1 | It's been six years since I released this podcast. So before I |
| 0:40.8 | tell you why I'm back in your feed, let's recap a little. In 1983, Paladin Press, a fringe |
| 0:47.2 | publisher, released a book called Hitman, a technical manual for independent contractors. The author, who went by the pen name Rex Farrell, |
| 0:57.4 | offered very specific tips for the aspiring contract killer, |
| 1:01.6 | where to find employment, how much to charge, |
| 1:04.6 | how to get away with murder, and how to feel okay about it. |
| 1:08.7 | Ten years later, Tiffany Horn's mother, eight-year-old brother, and a close |
| 1:13.4 | family friend were killed. The exhaustive investigation involved multi-state surveillance and wiretaps, |
| 1:20.4 | but it wasn't until detectives stumbled upon the book Hitman, that they suddenly had what they |
| 1:25.3 | called a blueprint for the murders. |
| 1:33.6 | Over the last nine episodes of this podcast, we dug into all of that, plus the wild, untold, |
| 1:36.9 | untold story behind the book and its elusive author. |
| 1:40.0 | Which brings me to why I'm back with an update. I recently got a phone call. |
| 1:47.6 | It was Tiffany Horn. |
| 1:49.2 | Hi. |
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