Unless the parallel reconstructionism is really that good, the evidence that he was the "original" DPR in the Silk Road context is pretty strong. Whether he was the DPR that ordered the hits or someone else had taken over by/for that point is what is more fuzzy. The 2013 Wired DPR interview was officially with DPR the Second, according to DPR the Second. [1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/an-int...