 | Kiessling was operating on various dark net sites and had more than 600 transactions. Police tracked half a dozen sales of fentanyl, furanylfentanyl and methoxyacetylfentanyl. A U.S. cop ordered 10 grams of fentanyl and paid Kiessling about $4,000 through bitcoin. Kiessling was arrested as he attempted to fill that order. Robert Kiessling committed suicide a week after his arrest.
Kiessling's father said a car crash a dozen years ago left his son with constant neck and head pain – along with a need for powerful painkillers. Weeks before he died, Robert Kiessling told his father that once he started taking fentanyl, there was no way out. |