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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.