Sept. 21, 2025

"DIGITAL FOOTPRINTS OF THE DAMNED: When Your Phone Becomes the Star Witness"

"DIGITAL FOOTPRINTS OF THE DAMNED: When Your Phone Becomes the Star Witness"

Reid Carter concludes the Google Graveyard weekend with killers who forgot phones track everything. From murderers caught by Find My iPhone to criminals livestreaming their crimes on Facebook, Sunday explores the digital ecosystem that turns every device into a snitch. Deleted texts that weren't deleted, Snapchats that didn't disappear, TikToks filmed at crime scenes, and Instagram posts establishing motive. Plus the ultimate stupidity: killers who document their crimes for social media clout then wonder how they got caught. Your phone knows where you were, what you did, and who you killed. And it's ready to testify against you.

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Calirogashark Media. Good morning, I'm read Carter, Sunday, September twenty one,

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twenty twenty five. Yesterday we explored how Google searches became

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the new confession. Today we're looking at the entire digital

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ecosystem that's turned every phone into a potential prosecution witness.

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Your phone knows everything where you've been, who you've texted,

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what you've photographed, when you were awake at three am,

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deleting evidence that spoiler alert isn't actually deleted. From find

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my iPhone, catching killers to murderers live streaming on Facebook,

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to the ultimate stupidity tiktoking at your crime scene. This

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is how technology became law enforcement's best friend and criminal's

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worst enemy. This is celebrity trials digital footprints of the damned.

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Let's start with the most basic way phones ca catch killers.

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Location tracking. Your phone is constantly pinging cell towers, connecting

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to Wi Fi, dropping GPS pins. It's creating a breadcrumb

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trail of your entire life, and murderers forget this constantly.

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Case in point, Potus Dulos, who we mentioned yesterday for

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googling his wife's disappearance before she disappeared. His phone also

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placed him at every location where evidence was found. Jennifer

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Dulos vanished from her home in New Canaan, Connecticut. Fotus

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claimed he was working in another town. His phone said otherwise.

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It pinged towers along the exact route where bloody clothes

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were found in trash cans, thirty different stops, thirty different

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trash cans. His phone documented every single one. His lawyer

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tried to claim someone else had his phone. Right, someone

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stole your phone, drove your exact truck, disposed of evidence

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in thirty locations, then returned your phone without you noticing.

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That's definitely what happened. Then there's Christopher Watts, who killed

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his pregnant wife and two daughters in Colorado, told police

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they disappeared. His story fell apart for many reasons, but

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the phone was key. His wife, Shenan's phone was found

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at the house, still pinging if she'd left him, as

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he claimed, wouldn't she take her phone? But more damning

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was his own phone. It showed him at the oil

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field where he dumped his daughter's bodies at the exact

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time they were dumped. He tried to explain it as

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a work trip, but the phone's accelerometer showed specific movements

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climbing stairs that matched the oil tanks opening hatches. The

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phone didn't just know where he was, it knew what

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he was doing. But my favorite location tracking fail is

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Patrick Frazy, who we discussed yesterday. After killing his fiance

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Kelsey Beareth, he had his girlfriend drive Kelsey's phone to

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Idaho to create false pings making it look like Kelsey

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left the state. Great plan, except he forgot about his

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own phone, which showed him following the exact same route

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to Idaho at the exact set time. His alibi was

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literally driving parallel to him, documented by GPS. Even better,

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he stopped at a sonic drive in on the way back,

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used his credit card, took a selfie with his milkshake,

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posted it to Instagram with a geo tag. My man

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was creating evidence against himself like it was a scavenger

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hunt for prosecutors. Find my iPhone has become particularly devastating

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for killers. In twenty nineteen, Aubrey Trail killed Sidney Loof

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in Nebraska, cut her into fourteen pieces, scattered them across

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Clay County. Thought he was smart, spreading evidence across miles

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of farmland except Sydney's iPhone was in one of the

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bags with her remains still pinging fined my iPhone led

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investigators directly to her body. Trail had literally created a

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GPS beacon for his crime. Then there's the case of

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Kira Bergmann in Phoenix. Her boyfriend claimed she'd run away.

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Her phone found in their apartment showed she'd never left.

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The health app showed her steps dropping to zero at

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the exact time he claimed she'd stormed out. Hard to

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storm out when your phone says you took zero steps.

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The boyfriend, John Clark, is serving twenty five to life,

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convicted largely because the phone proved Kiera never left that

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apartment alive. These phones are tracking everything, your speed when

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driving to dump a body, your heart rate spiking during

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the murder, your sleep pattern the night after killing someone.

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It's all recorded, waiting to be subpoened. Yet killers carry

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their phones to crime scenes like they're going to need

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to check Instagram between dumping bodies. They literally bring the

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star witness against them out of habit. Now let's talk

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about the beautiful delusion that deleting something actually deletes it.

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Jody Arius, remember her killed her boyfriend Travis Alexander in

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two thousand and eight, stabbed him twenty nine times, slit

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his throat, show him in the head, claimed self defense.

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The text messages said otherwise. She'd deleted thousands of texts

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from her phone before police seized it. Thought she was clever,

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except deleted doesn't mean gone. It means move to a

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part of the phone you can't see, but forensics can. Recovered.

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Texts showed her begging Travis to take her back, threatening

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suicide if he didn't, saying she'd make him sorry. Then,

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after the murder, texting his corpse asking why he hadn't called,

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creating an alibi by texting a dead man. The forensic

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investigator testified it took him twelve minutes to recover everything

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she'd deleted, twelve minutes to undo her cover up she'd

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spent days deleting. He undid it over a coffee break.

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Michelle Carter, the girl who convinced her boyfriend to kill

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himself via text. She deleted messages telling Conrad Roy to

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get back in the truck filling with carbon monoxide. Deleted

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messages saying she'd help him find the best method. Deleted

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messages where she admitted she could have saved him but didn't.

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All recovered, all presented at trial, all contributing to her

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manslaughter conviction. She's the first person convicted of killing someone

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primarily through text messages. Her deleted texts were the murder weapon.

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More recently, we have the case of Chandler Halderson, who

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killed his parents in Wisconsin in twenty twenty one. This

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twenty three year old pathological liar murdered his parents when

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they discovered he'd been lying about attending college. He deleted

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his search history about body disposal, deleted texts with his

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girlfriend about his parents going on a trip, deleted the

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find my app that showed him at locations where their

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body parts were found, all recovered. The prosecution presented his

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deleted digital life like a PowerPoint of guilt, every deleted

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item becoming evidence of consciousness of guilt. If you weren't guilty,

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why delete it? But here's the truly stupid part. Snapchat

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the app literally built on the premi that messages disappear,

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except they don't, not really. They're stored on servers, they're

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cased on phones, they're screenshotted by recipients. In twenty twenty two,

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teenagers in Florida murdered a police officer. They coordinated the

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entire thing on Snapchat, thinking the messages would vanish. Instead,

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Snapchat provided everything to law enforcement, every disappearing message, every

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deleted video, every temporary photo. The killers learned that disappearing

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is a feature for users, not a reality for servers.

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Snapchat keeps everything for law enforcement requests. Those flames next

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to your friend's name don't mean the evidence is burning.

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Even better is when killers use WhatsApp thinking encryption protects them.

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It does from outside hackers, not from law enforcement with

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your physical phone. Once they have your device, WhatsApp opens

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like a diary of your crimes. Pedro Bravo killed his

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friend Christian Aguilar over a girl. His WhatsApp message, which

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he thought were encrypted and safe, showed him planning the murder,

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discussing where to hide the body, asking friends for alibis.

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The encrypted messages became the prosecution's roadmap. The security feature

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he thought would protect him became the tool that convicted him.

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More in a moment. Now, for the most insane category

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killers who document their crimes on social media, Let's start

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with the Facebook live murders. Yes plural, multiple people have

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live streamed murders on Facebook because apparently killing someone isn't enough,

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you need an audience. Steve Stevens twenty seventeen, the Cleveland

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Facebook killer shot Robert Godwin Senior, twenty four year old

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grandfather randomly on the street, live streamed it, posted it

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with the caption I snapped. He thought going viral would

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make him famous. It did as a manhunt target. He

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killed himself three days later after a McDonald's employee recognized

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him from his Facebook video. Murdered for likes, caught by McNuggets,

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dead by his own hand, social media fame achieved. I guess.

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Then there's the case of Nakia Venant in Miami live

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streamed herself driving around with her boyfriend's body in the

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back seat, talking to viewers about what happened, showing the

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corpse like it was a normal Sunday stream. I just

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want to say I love you guys, Those were her

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words while a dead body was visible behind her. She's

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serving fifteen years. The Facebook live was exhibit A. But

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it's not just live streaming, it's the constant documentation of

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criminal life. In twenty nineteen, Mackenzie Shirilla killed her boy

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friend and his friend by intentionally driving one hundred miles

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per hour into a brick wall. Her Instagram before the

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crash was full of toxic relationship posts, quotes about revenge,

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photos of her car with captions about riding till death.

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After the crash, while her boyfriend was dying in the hospital,

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she posted a TikTok of herself crying with the caption

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the worst day of my life. She was literally creating

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evidence of her emotional state for prosecutors while her victim

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was on life support. She's serving life in prison. Her

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TikTok is still up, comments disabled. The crying video has

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two point three million views. Then there's Instagram establishing motive.

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In twenty twenty one, Courtney Clenny, who we've covered extensively,

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had an Instagram page full of glamorous OnlyFans promotional content,

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but scattered throughout were videos of her attacking her boyfriend,

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Christian Obumcelli. She thought she was documenting a toxic relationship,

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she was actually documenting domestic violence that ended in murder.

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Her own Instagram became the prosecution's timeline of escalation. The

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most insane has to be Peter Rodriguez, who killed two

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people on TikTok Live in San Diego, started streaming, got

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into an argument with viewers. Someone challenged him to prove

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he was tough, so he shot his girlfriend and her

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friend on TikTok Live with hundreds watching. The viewers called

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nine one one screen recorded the murder, provided real time

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witness testimony. He created hundreds of prosecution witnesses who watched

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him commit double murder in real time. He's serving life

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without parole. His TikTok account had forty seven followers when

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he started that stream. It had fifty thousand by the

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time police arrived. He got the fame he wanted in prison.

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Let's talk about the narcissism of killers who can't stop

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photographing themselves at crime scenes. Amanda Taylor twenty fifteen murdered

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her in laws in Virginia. Before fleeing the scene, she

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took selfies with their bodies smiling holding the murder weapon,

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posted them to social media with captions about freedom. She

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thought she was documenting her liberation. She was documenting first

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degree murder. The selfies showed no remorse, no self defense,

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just narcissistic joy. She's serving life without parole. Her selfie

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smile is her permanent mugshot. Then there's Cheyenne Antoine in Canada,

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strangled her best friend while drunk. Claimed she couldn't remember

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what happened. Posted on Facebook the next day about losing

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her best friend, asking for prayers. One problem. She was

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wearing the victim's belt in a selfie posted hours after

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the murder. The belt that was the murder weapon still

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had the victim's DNA on it. She literally photographed herself

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with evidence around her waist. She pled guilty after the

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selfie was found. The photo she thought showed her outfit

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of the day showed her murder weapon of the night,

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But the ultimate selfie stupidity. Joseph Elige, who killed his

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wife Meng Chi Ji in Missouri, claimed she'd returned to China,

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posted heartfelt messages about missing her, changed his profile picture

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to them together his phones. Deleted photos recovered by forensics

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included selfies at the exact spot where her body was

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later found, date stamped from when she was in China.

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He'd photographed himself at the burial site, multiple angles, good lighting,

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like he was scouting locations for a photo shoot, not

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hiding a corpse. The prosecutor called it trophy photography taking

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pictures to remember your crime, except these trophies become evidence.

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Every selfie is a confession more in a moment. It's

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not just the major apps. Every single application on your

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phone is a potential witness fitness apps. In twenty eighteen,

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Richard Debate claimed a masked intruder killed his wife Connie.

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Her fitbit said otherwise. It showed her moving around the

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house for an hour after Richard claimed she was dead,

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her heart rate spiking during the struggle, then nothing. The

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exact time of death recorded by a fitness tracker. Richard's

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own phone showed him researching divorce lawyers that morning. His

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credit cards showed purchases of flowers for his pregnant mistress.

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His whole digital life contradicted his intruder story. He's serving

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sixty five years convicted by a fitbit and a phone

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full of evidence he forgot existed. Dating apps. Joel Pellett

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killed his wife Maria in Florida. Claimed she'd left him.

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His phone showed him on Tinder within hours of her death,

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not just browsing, actively matching messaging, setting up dates while

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her body was in their laundry room. One match asked

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what he was looking for. He replied, someone to help

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me forget my ex his ex, who was decomposing ten

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feet away. Banking apps. Brian Walsh, the one who googled

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his wife's disposal, also venmoed his mother with the caption

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for cleaning supplies the day after Anna disappeared. Digital payment

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for evidence destruction with a paper trail. Food delivery apps

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Photis Dulos ordered Uber Eats to his girlfriend's house the

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night Jennifer disappeared. The app showed him there, not at home,

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grieving his missing wife. It also showed what he ordered,

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champagne and sushi celebration food while his wife was dead

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in a shallow grave. Even meditation apps. Larry Millet killed

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his wife Maya in California. His Calm app showed he'd

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listened to dealing with anger and letting go of resentment

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repeatedly in the days before her murder, then finding peace

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and living with loss after. The app meant to calm

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his mind documented his murderous state of mind. Weather apps

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checking conditions for body disposal, translation apps looking up phrases

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like where is the body in other languages. Calculator apps

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computing how much life insurance pays out. They all keep logs,

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They all sink to the cloud. They all become evidence.

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Your phone isn't just a communication device. It's a constellation

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of applications, each recording your actions, locations, interests, and crimes.

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Every app you've ever downloaded is ready to testify against you.

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That's Celebrity Trials for Sunday, September twenty first. This weekend,

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we've explored the Google Graveyard, the digital cemetery where killers

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bury themselves with their own searches, texts, posts, and selfies.

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From Brian Walsh's comprehensive Google Murder Curriculum, to killers live

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streaming their crimes on Facebook, to fitness trackers recording murders

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in real time. Technology has become the ultimate witness. The

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lesson is simple. If you're planning to commit murder, your

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phone already knows. Your searches are logged, your location is tracked.

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Your deleted texts aren't deleted, Your snapchats aren't snapping away.

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Your private thoughts are public record, waiting to be subpoened.

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Every killer we discussed thought they were smarter than the system.

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They thought incognito mode was actually incognito. They thought deleted

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meant gone. They thought encryption meant hidden. They were all wrong.

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They're all in prison, and their digital footprints were the

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trails that led investigators right to them. Tomorrow we return

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to regular coverage. The kiss and Kill verdict should finally arrive,

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updates from both Florida murder trials, and whatever fresh digital

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stupidity emerges from the weekend. I'm read Carter, this has

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been the Google Graveyard, proof that in twenty twenty five,

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your phone isn't just smarter than you, it's more honest

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than you. It remembers everything you tried to forget, and

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it's ready to tell the truth about what you did.

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If you're thinking about committing murder, here's your tech tip. Don't.

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But if you insist on being that stupid, at least

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leave your phone at home, though honestly, you'll probably instagram

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the crime scene anyway, because criminals can't help themselves. The

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digital age hasn't made criminals smarter, It's just made them

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easier to catch. See you tomorrow,