One Mistake Took Down a 29-Yr-Old Dark Web Drug Lord

Ross Ulbricht never thought he'd get caught.

*Corrections: Ulbricht attended the University of Texas at Dallas, not Austin. He was born on March 27, not March 17.

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0:04 Eric E Castro from San Francisco, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons
0:08 Ross Ulbricht image: freeross.org
0:20 Original Silk Road map: Kelvin Case, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons (edited by Newsthink)
1:45 Ludwig von Mises Institute, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... via Wikimedia Commons
1:50 Mitt Romney image: Chris Devers, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons
3:25 Ross Ulbricht image: freeross.org
4:47 Jared Der-Yeghiayan image: LinkedIn
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6:37 Ross Ulbricht with sister image: freeross.org
6:42 Variety Jones photo courtesy of: Eileen Ormsby https://eileenormsby.com/2018/06/16/v...
7:00 Ross Ulbricht laptop courtesy of the FBI
9:00 Carl Force “Nob” photo shown in court during Ulbricht’s trial
9:47 Curtis Clark Green image: Tonya Heaps Green | Facebook
11:20 Chris Tarbell image: LinkedIn
12:13 Government exhibit
14:13 Government exhibit
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