His pseudonym: the Dread Pirate Roberts. The allegations presented in the Silk Road trial—which begins Tuesday, January 13th—read like they’re ripped from the pages of a tabloid rag edited ...

The Dread Pirate Roberts, head of the most brazen drug trafficking site in the world, was a walking contradiction. Though the government says he raked in $80 million in commissions from running ...

An entrepreneur as professionally careful as the Dread Pirate Roberts doesn't trust instant messaging services. Forget phones or Skype. At one point during our eight-month preinterview courtship ...

This is likely to fuel a neverending fire of theories about Dread Pirate Roberts’ identity—something that the man himself is no doubt well aware of and, one assumes, happy with.

Dread Pirate Roberts was online briefly until 2:47 p.m. Just minutes after Dread signed off, federal agents saw Ulbricht leave his apartment and walk down the street in the direction of Bello, ...

Dread Pirate Roberts: We represent a right for the individual to choose what they would or wouldn't like to put into their own bodies. The state is no longer a protector of the people in many ways.

“Good job today, Westley,” the Dread Pirate Roberts tells the boy each evening. “I’ll most likely kill you in the morning.” Years go by, with the men enjoying the same conversation each ...

The FBI says the man behind the online drug market Silk Road, who dreamed of a utopian marketplace, did terrible things to protect it. This story originally ran Dec. 2 on All Things Considered.

Similarly anonymous, Ulbricht allegedly ran Silk Road under the online alias Dread Pirate Roberts, an online alias taken from The Princess Bride novel and movie.

Ulbricht, known as the “Dread Pirate Roberts” of the massive online drug market, was arrested on federal drug trafficking, hacking, and money laundering charges on Oct. 2.

Ross William Ulbricht, the 29-year-old web wiz charged with running a $1.2 billion Internet drug bazaar, was denied bail Thursday after prosecutors said he paid $730,000 trying to get six people mu… ...