It’s not every day that whitehat hackers get to experience physical crimes like assault and/or murder. In fact, this particular ethical hacker didn’t expect much to come out of his submitted tip.
Which is why all parties were shocked when the murder case was finally cracked open.
“Bitcoin independent researcher Chris Monteiro who has breached into the database of phony darknet website which offers hitmen and gunmen for hire and leaked the date into a legit website has accidentally helped solve the murder case of Mrs. Amy Allwine, NASDAQ reports.”
Back in November of 2016, Mrs. Allwine’s body was discovered in what appeared to be a suicide. Placing a pistol next to her elbow, Mrs. Allwine’s husband, Stephen Carl Allwine, attempted to cover up his gruesome crime by making it look intentional on the victim’s part.
What really happened? Mr. Allwine attempted to hire a hitman from the dark web to kill his wife, but ultimately completed the crime himself when his hired hitman was “arrested”. He’d been willing to pay anywhere from 10 thousand dollars to 15 thousand. The website (obviously) ended up being a scam.
“For Mr. Allwine’s case, after he transferred the funds to Besa Mafia, his communicators advised him that their hitman was apprehended by the police and was jailed.
However, investigators have found that no one was apprehended or jailed in Minnesota during that period, thus creating a suspicion that that Mr. Allwine himself did the crime instead of the hitman.”
In addition to the gruesome murder, Mrs. Allwine also tested positive for the drug “scopolamine”. This was also linked back to Mr. Allwine, who ordered the drugs off a dark web black market. Thanks to Monteiro, a murderer is now facing first-degree murder charges.
We can only hope that similar occurrences will take place as the days roll on. If ethical hackers continue submitting useful tips to authorities, who knows the amount of criminals that’d be behind bars?
