MTTA 124: Eileen Ormsby

Eileen Ormsby is a lawyer, author and freelance journalist based in Melbourne. Her first book, Silk Road was the world’s first in-depth expose of the black markets that operate on the dark web.

Eileen’s gonzo-style investigations have led her deep into the secretive corners of the dark web where drugs and weapons dealers, hackers, hitmen and worse ply their trade.

Eileen is also a regular contributor of scripts for the Casefile True Crime podcast.

Her latest book, Little Girls Lost: True tales of heinous crimes, was published in September.

I’m a big fan of true crime (books, television shows, documentaries, podcasts) so I’ve been wanting to have a true crime author on the podcast for awhile, so I was excited that Eileen agreed to be my first true crime/non-fiction author on the podcast.

We talk about our work, her investigations of the darkest depths of humanity and how she deals with that, death threats, and a lot more.

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Show Notes

The Casefile True Crime Podcast where Eileen has researched and wrote several of the episodes for the podcast.

Eileen was the dark webs expert 48-Hours hired to help them in their investigation of the hitman for hire services provided by a dark webs site that Eileen has a fascinating history with which we talked about during the podcast. She appears on camera during the Dateline 48-Hours episode: Click for a Killer. Full episode here but it’s behind a CBS paywall.

Transcript (software generated so text might appear wonky here and there).

[00:00:00.205] – Alan Petersen

You are listening to meet the Thriller author, the podcast, where I interview writers of mysteries, thrillers and suspense books. I’m your host, Alan Petersen, and this is episode number one hundred and twenty four. In this episode of the podcast, we’ll be reading Eileen Ormsby, who is a Dark Webs expert and author of true crime books. Eileen is also a lawyer, an author and freelance journalist based in Melbourne, Australia. Her first book, Silk Road. It was the world’s first in-depth exposé of the black markets that operate on the Dark Web. She’s now a leading darkrooms expert sought after by television programs like 48 Hours. Her gonzo style investigations have led her deep into the secretive corners of the dark web, where drugs, weapons dealers, hackers, hitmen and worse ply their trade. Little Girls Lost is her latest true crime book, and it’s out now to talk to her about that and her work. I’m a big fan of true crime and I have been wanting to have a true crime author on the podcast for a while, so excited that Eileen agreed to be my first true crime non-fiction author here on the show. So we’ll be talking to her here in a second. So stay tuned for that. A quick reminder, please visit ThrillerAuthors.com where ou can access the show notes there for this episode and have access to my archive of over one hundred and twenty author interviews. And please do visit ThrillingReads.com/rate to rate and review this podcast. Please note to the graphic nature of true crime. Listener discretion is advised.

[00:01:37.165] – Alan Petersen

Hey, everybody, this is Alan with me, the author and on the podcast for today I have Eileen Ormsb...