Journalistic Investigations
[2020-24] Novel/Wondery - Kill List
Almost 4 years were spent working with this UK podcast company, trying to stop more murders and seeing many further attempts transpire.
Can journalist Carl Miller persuade people to take him seriously over the phone? (Spoilers - he cannot). Can local journalists be hired to knock on doors to make the would-be victims and police take these plots more seriously? Yes they can!
The ‘Kill List’ investigations led to about 40 arrests and investigations, 30 imprisionments and 180 years of jail time across 10 countries and has been by far my most successful collaboration. I am featured more heavily in a Darknet Diaries podcast episode explaining more about all this from my point of view, rather than that of the journalists.
The Romainian scammers behind the scam were (briefly) arrested too, before being released days later and resuming their scamming and soliciting people to murder.
Unfortunately editorial decisions during production were made to characterise the investigations as ‘complete’ and the responsibilities ‘over’. when there are in fact about 800 outstanding cases.
At least 1x additional murder took place in this period that we were unable stop, but this has not be covered in the media yet.
[2019] Brian Merchant/Harpers Magazine - Click Here to Kill
Who tried to kill Minnesota teen Alexis Stern? It was the scumbag ex boyfriend from Bath, United Kingom Adrian Fry of course. Fry evades arrest due to police incompetence.
Merchant calls up a number of people on the ‘Kill List’ so far, with a range of unimpressed responses.
[2019] Gian Volpicelli/Wired UK - The unbelievable tale of a fake hitman, a kill list, a darknet vigilante... and a murder
There’s a ‘hit’ on a US serviceman for $5000, who turns up dead by suicide only a few days later. It’s still not known what happened here, but Volpicelli tells my story so far up to this point in 2019.
[2018-19] CBS/48 Hours - Click for a Killer
Who killed Amy Alwine? Who paid to have her murdered online? Well it was her scumbag husband Stephen Alwine of course. And now there’s media interest.
In 2018, whilst in conversations with US Crime documentary programme 48 hours, I was surprised to find the website had not in fact been closed down by UK law enforcement in 2017 as I had believed, but was instead still doing business with the same misconfigured code base.
What else could I do but pass the information to the programme? Several investigations took place leading to arrests and jail time in the US and 1x in Singapore.
National Investigations
National-level investigations appear to be the only way to comprehensively investigate cases in a given country.
The Netherlands
In August 2025, my collaboration with RTL News in the Netherlands announced there are up to 7 investigations taking place from the data I provided them. [English Coverage] [Original Dutch Reporting]
This builds upon ‘Kill List’s 2020-2021 investigation of man in the Hague who was imprisioned for 8 years for trying to kill his wife through the website.
Australia
In early 2025, the Canberra police disseminated up to 18 cases nationally for regional investigation.
This was following the case of the young woman who tried to kill her parents for the inheritence, instigated via ‘Kill List’, through the UK Metropolitan then Canberra police.
Singapore
In 2019, the Singapore police investigated 3x additional cases following collaboration with a journalist at ‘The New Paper’.
This would build on the CBS 48 Hours investigation which uncovered a man trying to kill his former lover’s boyfriend who was jailed for 5 years.
Other
In three small European countries, volunteers and journalists are actively facilitating investigations with their national police agencies.
If you are a person who lives in a country (other than the Netherlands or Singapore) you should: