We weren't prepared for what we learned about the Dark Web...AND Peter Scully

In 2011, a con man vanished from Australia one step ahead of fraud investigators. He resurfaced in the #philippines and what he built there would become one of the most disturbing cases in the history of the internet. Peter Gerard Scully didn't just commit crimes. He monetized them. Operating deep inside the #darkweb : the hidden, encrypted layer of the internet that can't be reached by Google, that runs on anonymous payments and untraceable routing, Scully built a pay-per-view network that catered to the worst impulses human beings are capable of. His clients were anonymous. His victims were children. And for years, he believed the dark web made him invisible. He was wrong. In this episode, we go inside the investigation that brought him down — the international manhunt, the agencies that refused to quit, the cryptocurrency trails that can never truly be erased, and the prosecutors who rebuilt an entire case after a mysterious fire destroyed the evidence room eight months into his trial. We also talk about what most true crime coverage leaves out: how the dark web actually works, how investigators trace anonymous payments through the blockchain, and why the Philippines became ground zero for one of the world's most brutal forms of online exploitation. This is not an easy story. But it's one that needs to be told. Find us: linktr.ee/triggeredthepodcast Join the Triggered Inner Circle: triggeredthepod.supercast.com