Weekend Listen: Hunting the Suicide Salesman
6/6/202649 min
Following the critically acclaimed series Hunting Warhead, Season 2: Hunting the Suicide Salesman 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.
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First 90 secondsSteve Patterson0:00
Hi, Steve Patterson here, host of The Debaters, the show where Canada's top comedians take on the world's most important questions, like, is imitation the sincerest form of flattery? I don't know, but we've got two comics battling this one out who make a great first impression. So if you like a little mimicry with your comedy, this episode's for you. Catch The Debaters anywhere you listen to podcasts.
Speaker 20:21
Hi, who are you?
Steve Patterson0:22
I'm you. Or am I? I don't know. What a crazy episode this is gonna be.
Speaker 30:26
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Jayme Poisson· Host0:30
Hey, everybody. Jamie here. Last week in a hearing watched around the world, a Canadian man named Kenneth Law pleaded guilty to aiding in 14 suicides and admitted his role in nearly 80 other deaths. Using an online alias, Law targeted vulnerable people in a suicide forum, directing them to his products and teaching them how to die. The scale of the operation was staggering. More than 1,200 packages shipped to people in 41 countries. It is a case that my colleague Damon Fairless has been following for years. Damon is no stranger to the darkest corners of the internet. He hosted Hunting Warhead, CBC's award-winning podcast that followed an international police investigation into one of the world's largest child abuse sites on the dark web. Now Damon is back with a long-awaited follow-up series. Hunting the Suicide Salesman investigates the shadowy online world where Kenneth Law operated, preying on people searching for a way to end