Eliot Higgins starts and ends his days like many others in 2021. In the morning, he homeschools his two children, aged six and nine, who have been mostly confined to their house in Leicester, England for the past two months due to the country’s strict Covid-19 lockdown. In the evening, he and his wife will settle down to watch a Netflix show. But in the hours in between, the 42-year-old spends his time online doing something few others would dare to do: digging into international assassination programs, war crimes and more as the chief cyber-sleuth at open-source investigative unit Bellingcat.
Time: Eliot Higgins on making Bellingcat an investigative force
Eliot Higgins, founder of online investigation group Bellingcat, poses for a photograph in London on Oct. 9, 2018 after making a presentation in parliament on their investigation into the suspects of the Sergei Skripal poisoning.
