readandwhite sent DPR a message quoting him a price of $150k to $300 "depending on how you want it done"
DPR responded: "Don't want to be a pain here, but the price seems high. Not long ago, I had a clean hit done for $80k."
DPR and readandwhite agreed upon a price of 1,670 Bitcoin - approximately $150k - for the job.
Several hours later on March 31, 2013, readandwhite wrote back: "I received the payment... We know where he is. He'll be grabbed tonight."
Subsequent messages reflect, at DPR's request, readandwhite sent DPR a picture of the victim after the job was done...DPR wrote readandwhite "I've received the picture and deleted it. Thank you for your swift action."
Ho. Lee. Shit.
Всплывают и другие истории, в одной из которых DPR якобы заказал пытки и казнь работника, пошедшего на сделку с полицией. Неожиданный поступок для идеалиста-либертарианца, по его собственным словам, выступавшего не за наркотики, а за принцип, и запрещавшего на своём сайте торговлю ЦП, оружием и контрактами на убийство:
“Silk Road is a vehicle for that message,” he writes to me from somewhere in the Internet’s encrypted void. “All else is secondary.”
Bonus reading: Родители Ульбрихта говорят, что тот не мог никого убить. Да может и не убивал, на самом деле - пока непонятно.