The Downfall of the Silk Road - The Ross Ulbr...

Haleigh Morgan Knight is a Henderson, Nevada influencer and mother who defrauded close friends and family out of nearly 20 grand. Between June 2023 and April 2024, Knight posed as a luxury trip adviser for the Four Seasons hotel chain, collecting expensive trip "deposits" for fak ...  Show more

Walter Moody was an American man who carried out a deadly mail-bomb campaign in December 1989, killing federal appeals court Judge Robert S. Vance and civil rights attorney Robert E. Robinson. Driven by a decades-long grudge against the legal system after a 1972 bomb conviction h ...  Show more

Ross Ulbricht built an empire in the shadows—a sprawling digital bazaar called The Silk Road, hidden on the dark web. There, drugs, weapons, and stolen secrets flowed freely, all paid for in untraceable cryptocurrency. To his global clientele, he was a legend: the Dread Pirate Ro ...  Show more

Beneath the surface web, the websites and search engines we use on a daily basis, lies the dark web, a hidden network of dangerous websites which are hidden from public access. In 2011, a man operating under the pseudonym, "Dread Pirate Roberts," created the Silk Road, a dark web ...  Show more

In this RE-RELEASE episode, Tess takes us through the journey of Ross Ulbricht’s founding of Silk Road, the dark web known as “the Amazon for drugs.” Meant to be a place for buyers and sellers to conduct marijuana transactions using Bitcoin, it quickly escalated to offering hard ...  Show more

Was Ross Ulbricht a visionary pioneer or a dangerous criminal? In part one of our series on "Young American Outlaws", we explore the rise and fall of the Silk Road and how Ulbricht's life sentence, followed by a 2025 presidential pardon, sparked fierce debate over freedom, techno ...  Show more