06.13.14
The Poisoner’s Black Market
What was the Poisoner’s black market for young American men? Apparently, Black Market Reloaded, accessed on TOR, before it was taken down.
A San Francisco Chronicle piece tells the story of another arrested man, one who had purchased what he thought were liquid poisons on BMR.
I’m not going to try to paraphrase it:
Court filings by FBI Special Agent Michael Eldridge allege that Chamberlain sought to buy abrin, a natural poison that is found in rosary pea seeds and is considered to be a potential weapon of terrorism, among other illicit chemicals, and to have the toxins shipped to his Polk Street apartment …
In February, Eldridge said, a New York City man told police and the FBI that he had bought cyanide and abrin on Black Market Reloaded so he could commit suicide, before apparently having second thoughts.
It turned out, the FBI said, that the same online seller had sent abrin to Chamberlain. When that man, a Sacramento resident, was arrested last month, he told the FBI that Chamberlain had previously sought to buy liquid ricin from another seller but balked at the high price. Ricin comes from castor beans.
Chamberlain “indicated that he was seeking abrin to ‘ease the suffering’ of cancer patients” and asked the Sacramento seller whether abrin could be detected in the autopsy of a dead person, Eldridge wrote …
Abrin, ricin, even nicotine and bomb-making show up: The stars of the death files of the old computer underground, now peddled on-line, or at least ersatz versions of them. Chamberlain, the story reads, complained that the BMR seller’s abrin did not work.