The Manual
2025-11-28 · 30 min · episode 342 · 7 entities
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Feed author/publisher: Vox Media Podcast Network
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wrote Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors
Episode description as stored
In 1993, a family was found murdered in their home. A Maryland police spokesperson described the homicide investigation as the most “exhaustive and labor intensive” in the department’s history. And then investigators found a strange manual - written by someone calling themselves Rex Feral.
This episode was originally released in 2018.
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