More than 3,000 victims have died at the hands of paid killers, a new probe shows, with widespread deaths in countries including the US and South Africa.
Thousands of people are being assassinated amid a horrific surge in contract killings - with one murderer-for-hire declaring: 'As long as there is money, we don't care.'
Ms van Zeller, 47, began her research after meeting a hitman in her home city of Los Angeles - just 15 minutes away from where she lives. 'You either die crying or you die fighting - most of the time it makes me feel better because I know the people I’m going after are also bad people.'Ms van Zeller's first Los Angeles showdown confronted her with a menacing assassin taking a semi-automatic Glock pistol from his pocket as an apparent threat to the reporter and her film crew.
The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime , a Swiss think-tank, says 2,700 people were assassinated worldwide in 2019 and 2020 - while the new documentary puts the number of victims at more than 3,000. The think tank GI-TOC issued a report highlighting the rising number of paid-for assassinations following the killing of Haiti's president Jovenel Moïse in July 2021.
'All over the world, thousands of people are assassinated yearly, in silence. In many countries, assassinations have become a daily occurrence.
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