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Hunting the Suicide Salesman

Hunting the Suicide Salesman

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Following the critically acclaimed series Hunting Warhead, Season 2 follows host Daemon Fairless as he takes us inside another dark corner of the internet: the online world helping people take their own lives.


When people around the world started killing themselves with an obscure substance a few years ago, police were unaware that something – someone – was tying many of these deaths together.


It took grieving families and investigative journalists to piece together what was actually happening and to trace the source of the substance – first, to an online suicide forum and then, to a salesman in Canada: Kenneth Law.


Police believe he sent more than 1200 shipments to 41 countries… and may be connected to more than 145 deaths around the world.


But this story is far bigger than any one man… It's about the places desperate people go when they can’t find what they need in the real world – and a deadly problem we’re afraid to talk about.


About HUNTING: Investigating where the internet meets the unspeakable. Host Daemon Fairless tackles subjects most people would rather avoid, like online child sexual abuse (S1: Hunting Warhead), or the forums dedicated to suicide (S2: Hunting the Suicide Salesman).


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  • Trailer - Hunting Warhead
    Sep 16 2019
    A new investigative series from CBC Podcasts and the Norwegian newspaper VG, Hunting Warhead follows an international team of police officers as they attempt to track down the people behind a massive child-abuse site on the dark web — and the morally complicated lengths authorities will go to to do so. Coming November 2019.
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  • Episode 1: Hacker vs. Hacker
    Nov 4 2019

    Einar Stangvik is a white-hat hacker — an internet security expert with an expertise in cracking the most secure and disturbing parts of the web. He discovers a troubling phenomenon online and joins forces with journalist Håkon Høydal. It leads them to Australia, to confront two men who are running the largest child abuse site on the dark net. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/hunting-warehead-transcripts-listen-1.5346693

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  • Episode 2: Rude Awakening
    Nov 4 2019

    All Gordon wants for his birthday is to travel to Washington, D.C., to visit museums and see the opera. He’s completely unaware that his companion on this trip has very different plans. His friend has an alter ego, Warhead, and it turns out police are not far behind. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/hunting-warehead-transcripts-listen-1.5346693

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A fantastic pod cast. How are these things not reported on more. It’s shocking that this has missed the international press. The work for this podcast is truly amazing. A very sad story but needs tell. Excellent work guys.

Well documented crime story.

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important work, great journalism involving a difficult topic and therefore careful handling of all
those involved and victimised by this crime.

Revealing the men behind ichild exploitation sites

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Highly recommend flr any true crime fan. The topic while deplorable is brilliantly told with real life accounts from the victims and people on the case

subject matter 'dark but brilliantly told.

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