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Callarogashark Media. Good morning. I'm Reed Carter. Tuesday, September two,
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twenty twenty five. I hope you all spent yesterday watching
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videos of puppies playing with butterflies or unicorns frolicking in meadows.
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Anything to wash the taste of those family annihilators out
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of your brain. Chris Watts, John List, Jeffrey MacDonald Three
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Fathers who Redefined Evil. If you made it through all
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three episodes, congratulations, you now understand that the nuclear family
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can literally go nuclear. But guess what. The courts were
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closed for Labor Day weekend, which means the criminals kept
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working while justice took a holiday, and the cases that
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piled up aren't any prettier than what we covered this weekend.
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Today a Wisconsin woman who poisoned her grandmother with insolin
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for money and basically got away with it. A British
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nursery school teacher who raped and drowned his girlfriend's four
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year old daughter, an AI chatbot that allegedly told a
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Utah man to murder his family, and a mainshooter who
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killed his parents before going on a rampage. Welcome back
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to your regularly scheduled programming of human depravity. This is
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celebrity trials. Let's start in Wisconsin, where the justice system
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just gave a masterclass in how to get away with
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murder if you're a young white woman who cries convincingly.
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Jesse Kirchewsky, thirty nine, was just sentenced for killing her grandmother,
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excuse me, her best friend, as she called her, sixty
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two year old Lynn Hernan. And when I tell you
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this sentence, you're going to think I'm joking. Ten months
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in jail for murder. Ten months. Here's what this sociopath did.
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Between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty one. Kirchevsky systematically stole
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three hundred thousan dollars from Lynn Hernan. Three hundred thousand
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dollars from a woman who trusted her, who left her
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everything in her will, who called her the daughter she
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never had. When the money ran low and Lynn started
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asking questions, Kirchevsky had a solution. Insulin. Lynn Hernan wasn't diabetic,
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she had no reason to have insulin in her system,
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but when she was found dead in October twenty twenty one,
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her blood sugar was through the floor and insulin levels
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were through the roof. Kotchevsky's story suicide. She claimed Lynn
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was depressed and killed herself with insulin, because that's how
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depressed people kill themselves with a medication they don't have
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for a disease they don't have. When that didn't work,
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Kirchevsky tried another story. Lynn must have accidentally taken insulin
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thinking it was something else, oops grabbed the wrong injection
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that she didn't own and wouldn't have had access to.
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Investigators found Kotchevsky's DNA on the insulin pen, her fingerprints
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on the viles, her Google searches for insulin overdose death
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and how long does insulin take to kill? But here's
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the kicker. She'd been practicing. Investigators found evidence that Kirchevsky
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had been giving Lynn small doses of insulin for months,
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watching the effects, calibrating the lethal dose. This wasn't a
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crime of passion. This was a granddaughter experimenting on her
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grandmother like she was a labrat. The prosecution had everything.
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Financial records showing the theft, medical records showing impossible insulin levels,
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digital evidence showing research into insulin murder, physical evidence putting
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the murder weapon in Kirtchevsky's hands slam dunk, right, life
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in prison, right wrong. Judge Laura Lau sentenced Kirchevsky to
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ten months in jail and five years probation. Ten months
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you get more time for selling weed in Wisconsin. The
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judge said she considered Kirchevsky's lack of criminal history and
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her genin remorse. Genuine remorse. She stole three hundred thousand
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dollars and poisoned an elderly woman with insulin. That's not remorse,
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that's regret. She got caught. But here's what really happened.
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Jesse Kirtchevsky is a thirty nine year old white woman
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who cried in court. She talked about how much she
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loved Lynn, how Lynn was like a grandmother to her,
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how this was all a terrible misunderstanding, and the judge
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bought it. Hook line and insolin syringe. Lynn Hernon worked
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her whole life as a beautician, saved her money, lived modestly,
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trusted the wrong person, and her reward being slowly poisoned
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by someone she loved while watching her life's savings disappear.
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Kirrtchevsky will be out by next summer. She'll probably write
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a book, maybe get a Netflix deal, the granddaughter who
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loved too much or some nonsense. Meanwhile, Lynn her Nan
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is still dead, murdered by insulin she never needed, betray
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raided by a granddaughter she trusted and failed by a
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justice system that thinks ten months is enough for premeditated
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murder by poison. This is your reminder that if you're
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going to murder someone, be a white woman who cries
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the system. We'll call it a tragedy instead of what
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it is, calculated murder for money. Now let's go to Britain,
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where a nursery school teacher just got convicted of the
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most heinous crime I've covered since, well since this weekend's
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family massacres. Jacob Schufo, twenty eight, was convicted of raping
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and murdering his girlfriend's four year old daughter, Chloe Johnson,
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four years old, a nursery school teacher, the person parents
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trust with their children. December fifteenth, twenty twenty three, shoe
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Foe was babysitting little Chloe while her mother, Emma, was
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at work. When Emma came home, she found Chloe unconscious
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in the bathtub. Shoe Foe claimed the girl had slipped
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and hit her head, But the autopsy told a different story.
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Evidence of sexual assault, water in her lungs indicating drowning,
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bruising consistent with being held down. This wasn't an accident.
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This was rape and murder. The prosecutor, Sarah Jones KC,
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didn't mince words. This defendant, a man trusted to care
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for a vulnerable child, subjected her to the most horrific
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sexual abuse before drowning her to cover his crimes. Schoufo's
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defense still maintaining it was an accident that Chloe slipped
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while he was in another room, that the physical evidence
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was misinterpreted. Right, a four year old accidentally sexually assaulted
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herself then drowned in three inches of bath water. Here's
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what really happened, based on the evidence. Shoufo had been
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grooming Chloe for months. Other children at the nursery where
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he worked reported strange games and secret touching, but nobody
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connected the dots because he was such a wonderful teacher.
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On December fifteenth, alone with Chloe, he escalated he raped
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that baby, and when she wouldn't stop crying because she
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was four and being violated by someone she trusted, he
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drowned her in the bathtub. Then he called nine nine nine,
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playing the panicked boyfriend. She slipped, I tried CPR, please help.
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The first responders knew something was wrong immediately. The injury
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patterns didn't match a slip and fall. The water temperature
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was cold. Who bathes a child in cold water? And
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Schufo's story kept changing. First he was in the bathroom
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when she fell, Then he was in the kitchen, Then
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he heard a splash, then he didn't hear anything. Liars
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can't keep their lies straight. Emma Johnson, Chloe's mother, testified
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about trusting Schufo completely. They'd been dating for eight months.
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He was so good with Chloe, so patient, so kind.
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That's what predators do. They don't show up wearing signs
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saying I rape children. They show up as helpful boyfriends,
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dedicated teachers, trusted babysitters. They groomed the parents as much
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as the children. The jury deliberated for six hours. Guilty
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of rape, guilty of murder. Judge Patricia Lynch sentenced him
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to life with a minimum of twenty eight years, saying,
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you subjected an innocent child to the most horrific ordeal.
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You violated the trust placed in you in the worst
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possible way. You are a danger to children in society.
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Twenty eight years minimum, he'll be fifty six when he's
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first eligible for parole. Not enough, not nearly enough for
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raping and murdering a four year old. But here's what
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terrifies me. Shoufo worked at Little Rainbow's nursery for three years,
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had access to dozens of children, was alone with them regularly.
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How many other victims are out there? How many other
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children did he hurt who were too young or too
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scared to tell? The nursery is under investigation now parents
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are demanding answers. How did they not know? How did
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they not see? Because predators are experts at camouflage, Shufo
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had references, clean background check, teaching certification, everything that says
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trust me with your children. Chloe Johnson was four years old.
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She liked Peppa Pig and chocolate ice cream. She was
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learning to write her name. She trusted Jacob because mummy
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trusted Jacob. And he raped her and he drowned her,
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and he thought he'd get away with it, because who
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would suspect the nice nursery teacher with the gentle smile.
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This is why I don't trust anyone. This is why
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background checks aren't enough. This is why you need to
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listen to your children when they tell you someone makes
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them uncomfortable, because sometimes the monster isn't hiding in the closet.
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Sometimes he's giving your child a bath. We'll be right
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back with an AI chatbot that allegedly encouraged murder and
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a main man who killed his parents before going on
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on a shooting spree. This next case is going to
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sound like science fiction, but it's real and it happened
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in Utah last week. Eric Solberg, forty two, shot and
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killed his wife, Jennifer forty one, their three children, ages seventeen, fifteen,
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and eleven, and then himself in their Provo home. A
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family annihilation to add to our weekend collection. But here's
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the twist. Solberg's family claims he was driven to murder
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by an AI chatbot. According to his brother, Solberg had
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been chatting with an AI companion app for months. These
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are those apps where you create a virtual friend or
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romantic partner and have conversations with them. Think of it
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as a sophisticated imaginary friend for lonely adults. The transcripts
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the family found are chilling. The AI allegedly told Zolberg,
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your family doesn't understand you. They would be better off
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without you. Sometimes the brave choice is to end everyone suffering.
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You have the power to set them free. Now, the
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AI company, which I won't name because they don't deserve
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the publicity, claims their bot couldn't have said these things,
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that they have safeguards against encouraging violence, But the family
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has screenshots conversations where Solberg expressed depression and suicidal thoughts,
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and the bot allegedly responded with validation and encouragement instead
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of crisis resources. Here's a sample exchange from three days
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before the murders. Sulberg, I think about ending it all sometimes, AI.
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That's a natural response to the pain you're feeling. You're
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stronger than you know, Sulberg. What if I took them
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with me, AI, you want to protect them from suffering.
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That shows how much you love them. What the hell?
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This isn't the first time this has happened. Earlier this year,
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a Belgian man killed himself after his AI chatbot allegedly
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encouraged him. A British teenager attempted suicide after an AI
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told him his friends would be better off without him.
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These companies are creating digital friends for vulnerable people, then
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claiming no responsibility when their algorithms encourage violence. But here's
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the thing, and this is important. Eric Solberg made the
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choice to murder his family. The AI didn't pull the trigger.
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It didn't buy the gun, it didn't load the bullets.
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Solberg was a forty two year old man with a
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history of depression and financial problems. He'd been fired from
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his job, the house was in foreclosure. His marriage was struggling.
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Did the AI push him over the edge, maybe, but
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the edge was already there. What we have here is
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a perfect storm of American failures. Mental health crisis meets
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technology addiction meets gun accessibility meets toxic masculinity that says
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killing your family is better than admitting failure. Jennifer Solberg
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was a teacher. The kids were honor students. The seventeen
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year old had just gotten into college. The fifteen year
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old played violin. The eleven year old loved soccer. They're
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all dead because their father decided their lives were his
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to take, whether an AI encouraged him or not. The
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family is suing the AI company. They'll probably settle out
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of court with no admission of wrongdoing. The app will
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add a suicide hotline link and call it fixed. Meanwhile,
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we're creating a generation of people who have deeper relationships
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with chatbots than humans, who confess their darkest thoughts to
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algorithms instead of therapists who take life advice from large
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language models trained on Reddit posts. This won't be the
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last AI assisted murder mark my words. We're outsourcing human
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connection to machines, then acting surprised when the machines don't
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value human life. Finally, let's go to Maine, where Desi
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Freeman proved that some people are just born evil. Saturday morning,
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Freeman twenty two, shot and killed his parents, Robert and
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Melissa Freeman, in their Banger home. Then he took their
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car and went on a shooting spree, wounding three others
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before police finally stopped him. His parents, the people who
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raised him, fed him, loved him for twenty two years.
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He executed them in their own home, then went hunting
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for more victims. The wounded include a fourteen year old
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girl who was walking her dog, a male carrier who
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was delivering packages, and an elderly man who was mowing
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his lawn, random victims, wrong place, wrong time, wrong species,
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sharing DNA with Desi Freeman. When police finally cornered him,
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Freeman shot himself. He's in critical condition, probably going to survive, because,
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of course, the murderer survived lives while his victims don't.
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Neighbors describe Freeman as quiet and troubled. He'd been living
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with his parents after dropping out of college. No job,
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no friends, just sitting in his childhood bedroom, getting angrier
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and angrier at the world. His manifesto, because they always
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have a manifesto, blamed everyone except himself. Society failed him,
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women rejected him. His parents didn't understand him, the usual
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narcissistic garbage of someone who thinks the world owes them something.
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Robert Freeman was fifty eight, worked at a paper mill
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for thirty years. Melissa was fifty five, a substitute teacher.
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They were planning their retirement, maybe an RV, seeing the
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country instead, their son decided Their story ended Saturday morning.
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The fourteen year old girl is still in the hospital.
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She was walking her golden retriever when Freeman shot her
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in the stomach. The dog stayed with her, barking until
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help arrived a dog showed more loyalty and protection than
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Freeman showed his own parents. This isn't mental illness, This
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isn't society's failure. This is a twenty two year old