Episode

510 - Black Death: The Bizarre Kidnapping of Chloe Ayling

Podcast: Timesuck with Dan Cummins
Published: Jun 8, 2026
Duration seconds: 8492
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Summary

A young British glamour model flies to Milan for what she believes is a routine photo shoot in 2017 — and vanishes into one of the strangest kidnapping cases in modern true crime history. Drugged, stuffed into the trunk of a car, and allegedly marked for sale on a dark web sex auction by a shadowy group called “Black Death,” Chloe Ayling’s story quickly spiraled into an international media frenzy filled with bizarre twists, contradictory behavior, and public skepticism.