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[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Its pretty easy to hire a hitman on the dark web. Just be aware, they all seem to be undercover FBI agents.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

DM me, I'll hook you up πŸ˜‡

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

You need some kind of special coin -- no, I'm not sure where to get one -- and then you go to this hotel right here. Then you go to the bar and ask.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Professional hitmen don't actually exist. It's a 'business' that you can't possibly advertise for and has no way for the customer to assess the quality of the provider in advance. Sometimes killings do happen in exchange for money, but they don't involve someone that is a professional killer that works with the public as their primary source of income. It just doesn't exist. But there are some cases where killing does happen for money.

Sometimes two people will conspire to kill another for profit. Maybe one spouse hates another spouse. They ask a close friend or relative to kill their spouse, and they offer a portion of proceeds from life insurance as a payment for their risk and trouble. Or they're cheating on their spouse with someone else, stand to inherit all their spouses assets upon their demise, and promise to marry the person they're cheating with, thus sharing all the assets with them. In this case, it's not a stranger being hired; the killer has known the person 'hiring' them for decades.

Some killings-for-hire are gang related. A gang wants someone killed. They don't hire a random person to do it. They get one of their own members, who they've already known for many years and is a full member of the gang. In compensation for the huge risk the person is taking on to perform the deed, they offer a large sum of cash. Again, an unvetted stranger is not being hired. This person has likely already committed numerous crimes on the gang's behalf in the past. When you've already committed enough crimes on a gang's behalf to get you years in prison, a murder isn't such a stretch.

Some killings-for-hire are done at the behest of nation-states. Spycraft. The KGB or CIA hire someone in a foreign country who is already sympathetic to them to kill someone the intelligence agency wants taken out. The intelligence agency doesn't just select anyone, they go through a long vetting process just like they would any other intelligence asset. In fact, the potential assassin has likely already provided good intelligence and assistance to them for years, already risked extensive jail time or worse. If you're a US military member that's been providing intelligence to the KGB for a decade and have already participated in sabotage efforts, you're already looking at treason charges if you're caught. Offing someone for the KGB isn't such an escalation. And when a nation-state hires someone to perform a killing, they also offer the person a plausible way out. The CIA can hire someone to kill someone for them in a foreign country and hand that person a US passport along with a few million safely in a US bank account in their name. Hell, they can make sure the assassin's family has been given US citizenship and is already in the US before the deed is done. The CIA assassin can perform the killing, and as long as they can get to US or friendly territory before the foreign cops catch up with them, they'll be completely free and clear. And regardless, their family will already be set for life in the US.

These are the kinds of scenarios where killings actually do occur in exchange for money. No one hires someone to kill another that they haven't heavily vetted. If a random civilian is going to hire someone else to kill someone, they won't hire a professional assassin. They'll hire their brother or their lover. Otherwise contract killings only are done by organizations like gangs or national intelligence agencies, and they only hire people to do so that they've worked with for years and who has already committed numerous less severe crimes for them in the past.

In short, there really is no such thing as a professional assassin that serves the general public. Maybe if you are the spouse of a high-level violent gang member, you might be able to convince them to use the gang's resources to pay one of their trusted members to kill someone in exchange for cash. But if you're just a random average person? Forget it. There simply are not professional contract killers hiding in the shadows that a random civilian can hire if they have the cash. Anyone claiming to be that is simply a cop. Any person who DID try to start a career like this would be caught very quickly and have a very, very short career.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Well first off go look at all those articles where someone hires a hitman and is arrested. its harder than that for sure but you keep seeing the stories pop up.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

There was a movie about this last year. It was based on a true story, but strays a bit from what actually happened. It's pretty good. It's called Hitman.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Last year? I only know 2007 and 2015 with 2007 being better IMO.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit_Man_(2023_film)

That one. Glen Powell actually showed some serious acting chops in that movie, I really enjoyed it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Oh, lol. I'll take a look!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The German Name for the Film is "A killer romance". I dont know why they change the english name to an other english name but they did it.

Can recommend the film.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

It's all about the marketing. They probably wanted German audiences to know its a romantic comedy and not just an action movie

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

It’s called Hitman.

There's also a series of science-based, 100% hitman simulator video games of the same name.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

From my understanding, in Brazil, you just ask your local dealer if he knows someone and he'll put you in touch

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ok that has me thinking never go to Brazil.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

How easy or hard is it to hire a Hitman?

That's the man right there, Officer.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Seriously though I don't know if it is a stupid ass trope or what but people seem easily to contact.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The dark web is a pretty good bet. Going into a bar is probably going to get you arrested.

If you go through the dark web don’t meet the hit man in person. Remain anonymous (plausible deniability). Use an anonymous way to send money. I have no experience in the dark web but I’d assume there is a way to do the equivalent of an escrow account. Where you put the money in and it won’t release until contract is complete.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

The Dark Web is full of honey pots set by the FBI. Chances are, you're never going to find an actual hitman for hire without it being a sting operation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Well don't know about the dark web but it kind of seems like the people who are caught get caught by UI's. But even in that case someone would have to set person A to person B.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago (8 children)

From my extensive experience in this area (true crime podcasts lol), if your hitman is either quoting a reasonable price or offering a payment plan, they're a cop.

Unless you're in South Africa, in which case you can legitimately walk in to a bar and hire a murderer for a very reasonable price.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

LMAO ok now you got me curious what consists of a reasonable price? If the guy I was first married to who beat the shit out of me and raped me how much would that be?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Getting kinda specific here...

Edit: really sorry you went through that, but I hope you're not thinking about making a rash decision.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh no been through therapy for it and left the state. Was just kind of curious if someone would kill a abuser/rapist at less of a rate than like an ex husband who is well off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It would all depend on the hired killer. Even the most horrible of people tend to have a 'code' they will follow.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

From my extensive experience in this area (true crime podcasts lol), if your hitman is either quoting a reasonable price or offering a payment plan, they’re a cop.

And the ones asking for payment up front will enjoy the free money. What, were you going to get a receipt for that?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So what is a realistic price in a western country? And what about those darknet hitmans?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Honestly, anything over 30k wouldn't really be worth it. Way easier to get a nice vacation and some therapy sessions for the same money instead of being that mad at someone.

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