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Silk Road It was the arrest that changed how people looked at the internet. On Oct. 1, 2013, 29-year-old Austin native Ross Ulbricht was arrested by the FBI in the Glen Park branch of the San Francisco Library for the contents of his laptop. What was on there was the key to a massive criminal endeavor known as the Silk Road: a secretive black market for drugs, guns, whatever, paid for with Bitcoin and shipped using the regular postal service. Ulbricht was the mastermind, operating under the scr...

Jess Falkenhagen Russell ties up with the Hollywood talent agency after Netflix debuted his Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer doc series. UTA has signed true crime writer, director and producer Tiller Russell for representation. Russell joins the Hollywood talent agency after his four-part documentary series Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer bowed on Netflix and another doc series he directed, The Last Narc, about the infamous cartel murder of DEA agent ‘Kiki’ Camarena...

Print True crime has paid big dividends for Netflix. From “Making a Murderer” to “The Keepers,” “The Staircase” and “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness,” the streaming service has been a steady provider of white-knuckle programming for viewers who can’t get enough of grisly crime scene photos, dogged detective work and real-life cliffhangers that seem tailor made for TV binge-watching. Murder has been very, very good for Netflix. But its latest bloody offering, “Night S...

Ben Stiller may direct movie about former dirty cop now living in Hernando Ken Eurell is already the subject of a documentary and wrote a memoir, both about his path from honest to crooked cop.     In this Feb. 11, 2011, photo, Ben Stiller, left, and his father Jerry Stiller arrive at the Help Haiti benefit honoring Sean Penn hosted by the Stiller Foundation and The J/P Haitian Relief Organization, in New York. [ CHARLES SYKES | AP ] Published Dec. 18, 2020 HERNANDO COUNTY — Ken Eu...

Ben Stiller is ready to take on some crooked cops with  The Seven Five, a film based on the documentary of the same name. The doc, which is pretty damn great, tells the story of some very,  very dirty NYPD cops who reigned in the 1980s. At one point,  White Boy Rick director Yann Demange was going to direct a feature adaptation for Sony, with  The Queen’s Gambit scribe Scott Frank tackling the script. Now, the project is over at MGM, and Stiller hopes to direct from a script he worked on...

Escape At Dannemora. But according to Collider, hes still interested on film jobs, and is in talks to make crime drama The Seven Five for MGM. It adapts the eponymous 2014 documentary by Tiller Russell and Eli Holzman, which focuses on a corrupt NYPD precinct in the 80s and its ringleader Michael Dowd, who was arrested in 1992 with a handful of other dirty cops who stole money and drugs. He served 14 years in prison, and his arrest exposed widespread corruption among the New York police force...