Nothing could be farther from the truth; in most jurisdictions, the person who contracts a murder is every bit as culpable in the eyes of the law as the person who actually commits the killing. In some cases, in fact, contracting a killer may be an aggravating factor that justifies imposition of the death penalty against both the hitman and the client. Popular culture is full of stories of real and fictional contract killers. The evidence suggests that the majority of murders-for-hire are carried out with firearms, but that contract killings account for a very small percentage of all murders.
For instance, the Pamela Smart case, in which she seduced a student and convinced him to murder her husband in exchange for sexual favors, and the Texas Cheerleader case, in which the mother of a high school cheerleader tried to hire someone to kill the mother of one of the girls competing with her daughter, both generated headlines and breathless commentary for weeks.
The research conducted by Holt suggests that hitmen based scams on the dark web are a consistently profitable enterprise, one that appears to be going nowhere any time soon. The advertised services demonstrate detail sufficiently similar to contracted violence in the real world, suggesting this is a well-researched scam that can fool the intended mark.
Murder-for-hire scams, however, are distinct from the majority of online scams in that the victims themselves are also criminals. Whilst innocent victims of scams can pursue compensation as the victims of crime, hitmen scammers can avoid the risk of paying out compensation to victims when caught. By offering illegal services, hitman scammers ensure that their victims have no legal avenues to reclaim their payments, whilst also capturing evidence of criminality that can be used as leverage if they are ever caught by law enforcement.
Individuals attempting to contract violence through these digital services are far more likely to end up out of pocket financially and at risk of blackmail or imprisonment than they are finding an actual hitman online. Researching Hitman Scams on the Dark Web. Investigating Heirs. November 10 October 29 Disrupting Crime with Vehicle Records.
And now he was passing on his latest assignment to his nephew, hoping to recruit him as a contract killer. Santana was reluctant, fearing that he would go to hell for killing another human being, but when his uncle, Cicero, explained how Yellow had tricked the girl, promising to take her to see the pink dolphins on the Tocantins River before raping her in his canoe, Julio began to change his mind. To seal the deal, Cicero, too sick with malaria to do the hit on his own, told his nephew God would look the other way.
All it took was 10 Hail Marys and 20 Our Fathers after the murder, he said. Later he would get rid of the body, gutting his victim and throwing him into the river where schools of piranhas would devour the remains. Santana had few aspirations in life. In Brazil, the book has also been adapted as a feature film. Cavalcanti said he came across Julio on a reporting trip to the Amazon 10 years ago to investigate modern-day slave labor. When Santana answered the pay phone in Porto Franco, the small town in the outback Brazilian state of Maranhao where he was living at the time, he was reluctant to speak to the reporter.
He spoke about his childhood, his relationship with his parents and his brothers and the quiet life he lived in the forest as well as the internal drama that he faced when he started to work as a hired killer. In the early s, Santana was contracted first as a guide to track down guerrilla encampments. In one case, he helped capture leftist militant Jose Genoino, a law student and one of the guerrilla leaders.
Santana watched in horror as soldiers spent days waterboarding him at a secret location in the rainforest. Julio was barely 18 at the time, and was partly rewarded for his work with a bottle of Coca Cola — his favorite drink and a luxury that his impoverished family could never afford. Shortly after the Genoino capture, Santana shot and killed another communist militant, a year-old school teacher named Maria Lucia Petit.
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