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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, the suicide of an all

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Speaker 1: American young man, a teen, leads to a shocking discovery

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Speaker 1: of a sick online sextortion scheme.

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Speaker 2: You heard me right, not extortion.

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Speaker 1: Sextortion, a scheme praying on predating on young American teens.

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Speaker 1: You think your child is just you know, sending an

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Speaker 1: install or a snap. No, and tonight joining us the

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Speaker 1: mother and father of this young boy. As I said,

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Speaker 1: all Americans scrubbed and sunshine, I mean it. Who commits

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Speaker 1: suicide after being sextorted online? I'm Nancy Grace. This is

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us.

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Speaker 3: A Michigan high school football star receives a mysterious Instagram

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Speaker 3: message from a girl claiming they have friends in common. Soon,

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Speaker 3: their conversation becomes flirtatious.

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Speaker 4: This kid, this boy to me, this little boy a teen,

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Speaker 4: had no idea who he was really dealing with.

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Speaker 1: This girl Danny, this beautiful young girl flirting with him online.

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Speaker 1: Started on Insta, then she moved it to a Google

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Speaker 1: chat room. It wasn't a beautiful young girl at all.

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Speaker 1: And now this boy.

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Speaker 2: Is gone.

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Speaker 5: Listen, I saw Jordan for the last time. He came

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Speaker 5: home at ten fifteen, and I believe that's when he

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Speaker 5: opened up his phone and saw the first messages rate

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Speaker 5: When he pulled in our driveway, and I was just

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Speaker 5: about ready to go to bed because we had a

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Speaker 5: But looking back, that was literally minutes after he received

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Speaker 5: his first message, and within ten minutes I was in

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Speaker 5: up to finding him in his bedroom.

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Speaker 1: You are hearing Dad John de May speaking to me earlier.

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Speaker 1: Joining me is Jean de May, Jordan's dad and his mother,

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Speaker 1: Jennifer Beauta to both of you, thank you for being

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Speaker 1: with us. And John, let me tell you why we

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Speaker 1: were playing sound of when you spoke to me before,

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Speaker 1: because I was worried that you and Jennifer would be

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Speaker 1: so distraught that you wouldn't be able to speak, So

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Speaker 1: I was going to use your prior words in case

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Speaker 1: that happened, because when I work on this case.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes when I don't know the right words.

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Speaker 1: Can you and Jennifer, starting with you, John, tell us

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Speaker 1: what happened that evening?

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Speaker 6: Well, first of all, thank you for having us again

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Speaker 6: and sharing our story. And you know, appreciate the thought

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Speaker 6: of the speaking. But I know I can speak for

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Speaker 6: myself and probably Jennifer as well, but we're very vocal.

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Speaker 6: This is a very important issue and we're getting your

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Speaker 6: voice as far and white as we can to tell

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Speaker 6: Jordan's story and what happened to him and keep this

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Speaker 6: as this legacy. Jordan was, you know, as you can see,

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Speaker 6: an all American young man who was six two hundred

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Speaker 6: As you know we heard earlier. The first message came

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Speaker 6: in late evening on Thursday night, and the messages were

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Speaker 6: pictures were exchanged and Jordan had sent a compromising photo

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Speaker 6: himself just after midnight. And when he did that, he

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Speaker 6: Beaniey Roberts was not a young lady. She was they

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Speaker 6: were extortionists trying to extort it for money. And he

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Speaker 6: spent the next three to four hours in extruciating, hard,

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Speaker 7: His way out of it. And he ultimately.

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Speaker 6: Told these extortions that he was going to kill himself

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Speaker 6: because of them, and their response was, good, you better

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Speaker 1: Mister Jimay, I am so sorry. I know those words

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Speaker 1: are hollow. They I just hate it for you, I

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Speaker 1: it will be worth everything that we're doing right now.

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Speaker 2: Everything. And here's the thing. We'll never know. We'll never know.

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Speaker 1: If we had any effect, if we saved anybody, But

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Speaker 1: I know this, we'll know if we don't even try.

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Speaker 2: Jennifer, thank you for being with us.

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Speaker 1: What is your recollection of those critical hours when I

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Speaker 8: To get ready for work.

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Speaker 9: I saw a text that came through from Jordan at

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Speaker 9: three point forty one in the morning, and it said mother,

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Speaker 9: I love you, and I just texted him.

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Speaker 8: Back and said I love you too.

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Speaker 9: I hope you got some sleep, and I started to

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Speaker 8: And he didn't respond. So I drove to work, sat down.

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Speaker 9: And I was like, something's not right. He should be

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Speaker 9: to Jordan's girlfriend at school and said, is Jordan at school?

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Speaker 8: And she said no, And in that moment I.

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Speaker 9: Knew something was very, very wrong, and I reached out

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Speaker 8: John called me about nine minutes later.

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Speaker 9: And said he's gone. He's gone, and that Marning was

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Speaker 9: just chaos trying to figure out what happened or why

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Speaker 9: he would do this because he was ready to go

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Speaker 8: There were literally no.

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Speaker 9: Signs that he was in a place to take his

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Speaker 1: The investigation that started with the death of this incredible

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Speaker 1: young man, a boy, a boy, Jordan DeMay, a boy,

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Speaker 1: has led to the uncovering of a vast network, a

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Speaker 1: gang all around the world extorting sex, storting teens. Joining

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Speaker 1: me is Rich Wstak, former detective cyber crimes detective president

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Speaker 1: of be Sure Cyber training with Rich, thank you for

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Speaker 1: being with us. And you know, I'm just a trial lawyer.

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Speaker 1: I know how to try a murder case and I

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Speaker 1: know how to work a cross pot, and that's about it.

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Speaker 2: You have got to explain.

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Speaker 1: To everyone in understandable terms, what is happening, How is

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Speaker 2: How did it happen?

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Speaker 10: Well, Nancy, my heart goes out to these parents, and

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Speaker 10: it's happening all over the world actually where these warlords

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Speaker 10: have these cyber cafes and they are all sextortionists, specifically

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Speaker 10: the Yahoo boys in Nigeria who are doing this to

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Speaker 10: our kids across the country. What we need to do.

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Speaker 10: I train about three hundred thousand students a year. Last year,

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Speaker 10: out of those three hundred thousand, I have had thirty

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Speaker 10: to me right now, and we have to It starts

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Speaker 10: with education of the parents, and then it goes to

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Speaker 2: Okay, whoa, whoa.

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Speaker 1: Explain what happens in simple terms. Okay, So here we

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Speaker 1: see Jordan, everything's fine, and all of a sudden, this

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Speaker 1: girl pops up on Insta. I believe, wasn't it originally

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Speaker 1: on Insta? John and Jennifer correct, Yes, And she's cute

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Speaker 1: and there's a picture of her and she's got a

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Speaker 2: And I'm a cheerleader and I live and so and so.

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Speaker 2: What happens then, Well, our.

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Speaker 10: Boys get so involved and when they're by themselves, you know,

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Speaker 10: in their bedrooms at night with their devices, and they're like,

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Speaker 10: what's the harm. It's just another girl on the internet.

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Speaker 10: What they don't understand is that if they don't know

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Speaker 10: them on a webcam, it's probably a liar, probably a

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Speaker 10: sextortion case. So for girls, it's about more pictures and videos.

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Speaker 1: You're saying, you need to be able to either know

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Speaker 1: them on a webcam and to you, John, to May,

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Speaker 1: it just started out so innocently. She sends a picture,

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Speaker 1: He doesn't know her, she doesn't know him, and they're

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Speaker 1: having a good time and this goes on for you know,

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Speaker 2: How does that go so sideways? That's what I'm trying

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Speaker 7: John.

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Speaker 6: You know, I'm certainly not a professional at this yet,

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Speaker 6: but I'm trying to be. And you know, from all

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Speaker 6: meeting and talking with and learning from, the majority of

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Speaker 6: the same cases is the same type of situation. It's

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Speaker 6: a slow boil building rapport with hacked accounts mostly, and

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Speaker 6: And then as a detective, State of the Yahoo Boys

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Speaker 6: basically put together a training platform that was all over

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Speaker 6: the Internet for years for these extortions to learn how

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Speaker 1: Oh, dear Lord, So they have a training program how

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Speaker 1: to six stort teens. American tains Okay, this.

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Speaker 2: Is how I think it went down.

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Speaker 1: Jump in and correct me to John and Jennifer and

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Speaker 1: witchress s doockey? Hold on, Doctor Moroney, Elizabeth Peterson, I'm

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Speaker 1: coming right to you.

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Speaker 11: Social media has become a regular part of daily life

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Speaker 11: for millions, and seventeen year old Jordan to May is

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Speaker 11: no exception. On Twitter, Jordan receives a message from a

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Speaker 11: beautiful team. Her name is Danny Roberts and she's pretty

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Speaker 11: and very suggestive. Danny asked Jordan to send some naughty

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Speaker 11: scamming him. Danny convinces Jordan she is in a scammer

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Speaker 2: That is how it starts. Listen.

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Speaker 12: The minute Jordan de May is convinced by a new

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Speaker 12: friend on Twitter to send a naughty photo, he knows

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Speaker 12: he has been had right away. He knows he is

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Speaker 12: being blackmailed. The so called Twitter friend tells Jordan he

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Speaker 12: needs to send money right now or the naughty photo

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Speaker 12: family and all his friends at school. The blackmailer tells

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Speaker 12: Jordan to send one thousand dollars. He tells the scammers

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Speaker 12: he doesn't have that much. He tells them he has

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Speaker 12: three hundred dollars, and they agree. If Jordan de May

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Speaker 12: sends the three hundred dollars, they will get rid of

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Speaker 12: everything he sends the money.

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Speaker 1: This is not just a story, this is real. Jordan

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Speaker 1: is dead. And you just heard one of our guests

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Speaker 1: talking about training online. How these sex storageists are trained

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Speaker 1: on line. They even have a script. This is part

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Speaker 1: of the script that we've obtained from court filings. Quote, Hey,

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Speaker 2: All you've got to do is cooperate with me, and

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine John de May, your boy alone up

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Speaker 1: Why did it take the suicide of this young boy,

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Speaker 1: praying on our children. Yes, when I say good night

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Speaker 1: John to doctor William Morony, renowned medical examiner, toxicologist, pathologists,

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Speaker 1: Day, especially a lot of your children being seventeen and

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Speaker 11: Danny Roberts begin sending more threats to Jordan, putting his

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Speaker 1: Let me understand what I'm hearing. Jennifer Beda joining us

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Speaker 1: Jordan's mom, So this extortionist, this gang praying, predating upon

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Speaker 2: And she Danny, it's not as she is.

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Speaker 1: American grown men teamed up with Nigerian grown men. They

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Speaker 1: I cannot imagine how Jordan would have reacted seeing that, yeah.

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Speaker 8: They were building the collages.

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Speaker 9: Jordan might have even believed that they were sent out

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Speaker 9: It was very convincing. I can't imagine the panic he

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Speaker 14: Listen, it has only been six hours since Jordan de

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Speaker 14: no way out. When he threatens to end his own life,

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Speaker 2: This sixtortion plot.

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Speaker 1: And if you're a parent, if you're an older brother

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Speaker 11: News of Jordan de May's death spreads fast. Jordan's girlfriend

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Speaker 1: John de May is with us, Jordan's dad, along with

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Speaker 6: Well it's really the most important piece of this entire

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Speaker 7: They have no reason to.

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Speaker 7: Piece is what would blew this all up for us.

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Speaker 14: In Michigan, the Marquette County Sheriff has his detectives work

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Speaker 1: Joining me now, Elizabeth Peterson morning news anchor and reporter

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Speaker 1: WLUCTV six, Uppermichigansource dot Com, Uppermichiganssource dot Com.

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Speaker 2: Elizabeth, thank you.

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Speaker 1: For being with us now we hear the US attorney

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Speaker 1: speaking out now just then we heard about a Nigerian gang,

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Speaker 1: but there were American men us citizens, part of this gang,

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Speaker 2: How did it work? Elizabeth?

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Speaker 15: As this continues to unfold, we keep learning more and

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Speaker 15: we learned that when Jordan sent the money, he didn't

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Speaker 8: This entire, this entire thing was.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Elizabeth Paterson, hold on just a moment, sure, Elizabeth,

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Speaker 1: he meane, some of these people, their cut, did you say,

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Speaker 2: Jordan is dead and their cut was fifty.

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Speaker 1: Dollars, So pointless, Jennifer, did you have any idea that

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Speaker 9: When they shared that information at the last press conference

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Speaker 9: this is absolutely disgusting that I lost my son over

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Speaker 1: I didn't know that, but my stomach is just clinched

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Speaker 2: They would go along with this.

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Speaker 1: And it's easy to say, Oh, Nigeria so far away,

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Speaker 2: To someone in a different country. Who are they? We

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Speaker 1: Us citizens are praying on our children, our Jordan.

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Speaker 16: Over the course of a short conversation, Samuel Ogashi, pretending

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Speaker 1: So let me understand rich with Stokey joining US Cybercrimes detective,

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Speaker 1: how was it? In a nutshell in simple terms for me,

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Speaker 1: how were these texts and messages some of them on Insta,

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Speaker 2: How were they traced?

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Speaker 10: So what happens is when these happened, we have to

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Speaker 10: the account existed. And what you're going to see not

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Speaker 10: only in the social media accounts. How do they send

442
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Speaker 10: the money?

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Speaker 1: Was it zell?

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Speaker 10: Was it PayPal? How is it? So when we get

445
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 10: every single social media or banking system that they're using,

446
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:00,240
Speaker 10: we get the user ID and we get all the

447
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,399
Speaker 10: IPS that are connected to it. So when you have

448
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 10: all the players connecting with their IPS into these accounts,

449
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:09,919
Speaker 10: that is traceable. When I teach in the schools, and

450
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:13,680
Speaker 10: tell the kids there is no one online is anonymous

451
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 10: when it comes to social networking and gaming, and no

452
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:18,679
Speaker 10: one has the right to make you do something you

453
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Speaker 10: know you're not supposed to be doing. And we can

454
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Speaker 10: make your pain stop because we can trace it.

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Speaker 1: Which with Stocky is talking about how this case was

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Speaker 1: cracked wide open, John de May Jennifer, but of the

457
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 1: mom and dad of Jordan because of his death and

458
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 1: investigation was launched. It you went through heul to even

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00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:47,399
Speaker 1: get access to Jordan's phone. That was hard enough. And

460
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 1: because of you, a new law has been passed regarding

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Speaker 1: parents and loved ones getting access to the deceased child's phone.

462
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Speaker 1: Because of you, you never let it go.

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Speaker 2: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, John to May, Jennifer, but

464
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Speaker 2: to the mom and dad of Jordan.

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Speaker 1: Tell me, was Jordan most of these transactions were through

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Speaker 1: Apple Pay or zell. Was that how it was traced

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00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 1: in Jordan's case?

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Speaker 7: Correct?

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Speaker 6: In Jordan's case, it was an Apple Pay to a

470
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 6: United States bank account. And then unfortunately, these extortionists need

471
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Speaker 6: players in the United States because you can't just send

472
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Speaker 6: American currency to Nigeria.

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Speaker 7: It has to be converted.

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Speaker 6: So typically what's happening is the money's coming in through

475
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Speaker 6: Apple pay Zel, and then it goes into a bank account.

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Speaker 7: The bank account then uploads it into a.

477
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Speaker 6: Crypto wallet through a crypto exchange United States Exchange, and

478
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Speaker 6: then it's converted into a bitcoin or some sort of cryptocurrency.

479
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 6: Then it's easily transferred into any wallet on the planet,

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Speaker 6: and then the receiving end of that crypto wallet our

481
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Speaker 6: case in Nigeria, they were able to run it through

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Speaker 6: an exchange in Nigeria and convert that cryptocurrency back into

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Speaker 6: their own home currency.

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Speaker 17: Today, I'm announcing a separate but related case charging five individuals,

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Speaker 17: all US citizens, located in the United States now and

486
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Speaker 17: at the time of the alleged criminal activity. These individuals

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Speaker 17: we alleged facilitated this sextortion scheme by receiving payments from

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Speaker 17: the victims and transferring the money to Nigeria, ultimately to

489
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Speaker 17: those carrying out the scheme that resulted in the death

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Speaker 17: of Jordan DeMay and victimized many others.

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Speaker 1: That is the US Attorney for the Western District of Michigan,

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Speaker 1: Mark taught in speaking about the arrests, and yes, it

493
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Speaker 1: is an achievement and it was an extensive investigation to

494
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Speaker 1: track down these predators all around the world. But can

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Speaker 1: I talk about the reality to John and Jennifer all

496
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 1: of this happened in just six hours from the time

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Speaker 1: your baby got this message, the first message from Danny.

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Speaker 1: Six hours later, he was gone. He was gone from

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Speaker 1: this earth and in heaven, just six hours.

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Speaker 2: John, that's right.

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Speaker 6: And there's two dozen parents and families that I know

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Speaker 6: that I speak with that have lost their children to sextortion,

503
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Speaker 6: and a lot of their stories are very similar to these.

504
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 6: All these young boys and some girls. We could put

505
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Speaker 6: them all in the same room together and they could

506
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Speaker 6: all be brothers and sisters and the feet on them

507
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Speaker 6: and you know, it's a tragedy.

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Speaker 1: Jennifer is so hard to take in that all you've

509
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Speaker 1: raised him for years, eighteen years, and in six hours

510
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Speaker 1: you lose them.

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Speaker 9: They took one of them, all precious things to me,

512
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 9: and on that.

513
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 8: Day, part of me left this earth too.

514
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 9: And there's always going to be an emptiness and a

515
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 9: heaviness not having Jordan here with me.

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Speaker 1: To Elizabeth Peterson joining us WLUC TV six, it's so

517
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Speaker 1: difficult to hear John and Jennifer talk about how much

518
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: they love Jordan and how everything changed in just a

519
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 1: few hours. This investigation turned on its ear and it

520
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:39,200
Speaker 1: got to be very extensive and much bigger than anyone imagined.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, it really, you know, as I've been covering this

522
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 15: for a couple of years now and I've gotten to

523
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 15: know Jennifer and John, and I've listened to the community

524
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 15: to talk about who Jordan was. Everyone explains him as

525
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 15: this big, big presence, this big spirit. And I think

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Speaker 15: as we look at this investigation and see how big

527
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Speaker 15: it's gotten, the reach that it's gotten, story is being

528
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 15: told not just here in Michigan, but across the country,

529
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 15: across the world, and every time it's told, there's an

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Speaker 15: opportunity there for us as parents, for us as the community,

531
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 15: for us as legislator's law enforcement across the board, to

532
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 15: do better, to do right by Jordan, by his family.

533
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 15: And I think that's exactly what's happening. And I can't

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00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 15: help but think that. You know, it's hard for us

535
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 15: as adults sometimes, I think, to relate to a sixteen

536
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 15: year old and what they're thinking, what they're feeling. But

537
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 15: they haven't lived life yet, they haven't matured yet, they

538
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 15: don't have that wherewithal to say, you know what, in

539
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 15: a year, I'm going to look back at on this

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00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 15: and laugh. And so as adults we can't understand, but

541
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 15: we can open that open space.

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Speaker 1: And that's a really good point, Elizabeth, as is true

543
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Speaker 1: in so many suicides to you, Jennifer, but to Jordan's mother,

544
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 1: if they could just get through that one dark moment, yeah,

545
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 1: if they had just made through the night, the next morning,

546
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: everything is different.

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Speaker 8: Explain absolutely.

548
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 9: You know, their brains aren't developed enough to see past

549
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 9: that very moment. They're just seeing what's in front of

550
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 9: them right now and how devastating this is and how

551
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 9: they might have hurt someone or disappointed someone. I actually

552
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 9: had a teenager reach out to me yesterday and say,

553
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 9: this is happening to me, and because of Jordan's story,

554
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 9: I know that this is going to pass. And that

555
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 9: brought tears to me, knowing that sharing Jordan's story is

556
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 9: helping others and it is saving lives.

557
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Speaker 1: Jordan de may Attain, literally just king of the world,

558
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 1: his life in front of him, commits suicide because of

559
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: a sextortion plot against him, and it's happened to detains.

560
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Speaker 2: All over our country.

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Speaker 1: I want you to hear what Danny, the que girl

562
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 1: he thought he was talking to, said, dude, now goodbye,

563
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:13,320
Speaker 1: enjoy your miserable life. And victim too says why and Danny,

564
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:19,320
Speaker 1: I'll make this goat viral. I'll make you regret your life.

565
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: I'll make you commit suicide. I promise you, I swear.

566
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:28,439
Speaker 1: That is what these teens are up against. They think

567
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 1: they're going to get ridiculed, shamed, shunned, bullied, mistreated, grounded

568
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: by parents, friends, family, and they feel they have no.

569
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 2: Other choice very quickly.

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Speaker 1: Doctor William Moroney has conducted so many autopsies on teen

571
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Speaker 1: suicide victims.

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Speaker 18: Your message, my message is that we need to have

573
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 18: resilience coming from the parents, but we also need the

574
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Speaker 18: taxpayers to hear that message.

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00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 13: In this schools because the kids spend so much time

576
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 13: in school that the schools should redirect children back to

577
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 13: their parents for questions, and there should be early education

578
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 13: about feeling insecure and suicide and downplay those messages in

579
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 13: the media and refer children back to communication with their parents.

580
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 1: That's exactly what you do, Rich with Stocky try in schools.

581
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 10: Yeah, we need to be teaching parents how to have

582
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:34,359
Speaker 10: that technology talk because so many times parents say if

583
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 10: you do this, if you do that, we're going to

584
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 10: do this here, We're going to do that to you,

585
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 10: and that shuts down the communications. Instead, I teach something

586
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 10: called the Golden ticket, and we need to have parents

587
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:47,279
Speaker 10: give that kid a pass because parents are responsible for

588
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 10: their kids technology and we need to do a better

589
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,879
Speaker 10: job allowing no matter what you do, we are here

590
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 10: for you and we will fix it for you. You don't

591
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 10: have to suffer in silence.

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00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 1: And what is so ironic to Jennifer and John Mom

593
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 1: and dad, Jordan was not under any threat like you

594
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 1: hear parents saying, Hey, I'm going to take away your

595
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 1: car keys, I'm going to take away your cell phone if.

596
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 2: You fill in the blank.

597
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:16,760
Speaker 1: This boy, Jordan, this was a prison of his own

598
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 1: making out of fear embarrassment, not because you had disciplined

599
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: him or fussed him about being online, but because of

600
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:32,880
Speaker 1: what the defendants did, grown men in the US and Nigeria.

601
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:35,439
Speaker 2: Targeting this teen boy in the middle of the night.

602
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 1: Jennifer, you guys did everything right and parents need to

603
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 1: know that too. You can do everything right and you

604
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,840
Speaker 1: still have a hard time protecting your child online.

605
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:51,320
Speaker 8: Yeah, Jordan had a loving family.

606
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 9: He had a great life, a huge support system within

607
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 9: his friends in this community, and he was just the

608
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 9: target that night. And they were relentless and did not

609
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 9: give up until Jordan finally took his own life because

610
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 9: he couldn't take the pressure. And I think it's so

611
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 9: important for parents to hear Jordan's story and sit down

612
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 9: with their families and have open conversations about what happened

613
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 9: and that there's absolutely nothing that they can't come to

614
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 9: you with for help, because people want to help you.

615
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:23,959
Speaker 8: If you see yourself going down that.

616
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 2: Tunnel, John to May, Jordan's dead.

617
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:29,760
Speaker 1: I want to tell you how you've affected my family,

618
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: you and Jennifer and Jordan. When you first told me

619
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:39,360
Speaker 1: about Jordan, I pulled up Jordan's picture online on my

620
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: iPad and I blew it up and I waited for

621
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:45,799
Speaker 1: the twins, my children, to come home from school. They

622
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 1: sat down, we had no conversation, which we normally do,

623
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Speaker 1: and I held up the picture.

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00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:51,760
Speaker 2: So you see this boy.

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00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 1: He's a star football player, he was going to go

626
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 1: to college. He's dead, and this is what happened. This

627
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 1: is what happened. Now his mom and dad don't have

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00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 1: him any more. And I told him point blank, what happened.

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Speaker 1: Please help us, John, help all the parents listening right now.

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00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:13,319
Speaker 2: What is your message?

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Speaker 6: I think the most important thing really is kind of elementary,

632
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:18,800
Speaker 6: but it just boils down. So we have to really

633
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 6: watch what our kids are doing on devices and specifically

634
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 6: social media. One thing that I think is really important,

635
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 6: and if the detective touched on it, was having a

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00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:32,360
Speaker 6: device in their bedrooms in secluded areas at night without

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00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,720
Speaker 6: other people around. I think that's a really bad recipe,

638
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 6: especially when something like this goes down. There's no way

639
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 6: for anybody to intervene. So I think parents need to

640
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 6: be really really cognizant about that. Keep the devices in

641
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 6: open areas, keep them out of their bedrooms, put them

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00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 6: on the phone chargers, put them away at night, and

643
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 6: then speaking to their kids and having the conversation. This

644
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,319
Speaker 6: is stuff that's really happening. To look at Jordan's story,

645
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 6: this thing is real. There's people from other parts of

646
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:55,799
Speaker 6: the world that came into my house and murdered my

647
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 6: son that night, and there's eleven people in custody right

648
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:00,840
Speaker 6: now because of it. So this this isn't something that

649
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 6: just as a whim. There's two dozen other families, and

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00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,439
Speaker 6: there's probably thousands, if not tens of thousands, maybe even

651
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Speaker 6: millions of kids that are being.

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Speaker 7: Affected by this to some level. So we have to

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00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 7: be diligent parents and pay attention to what's.

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00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:18,799
Speaker 6: Happening, and be a little bit more strict and fors

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Speaker 6: coming with the phone usage.

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Speaker 2: If you or someone you know believe that you are,

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Speaker 2: or have been.

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Speaker 1: Or currently a victim of sextortion, toll free eight.

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Speaker 2: Hundred two two five four to three two four.

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Speaker 1: Repeat eight hundred two two five four three two four

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Speaker 1: that's one eight hundred, call FBI, and if you are

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Speaker 1: considering or thinking about committing suicide, please text nine eight

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Speaker 1: eight just text nine to eight eight or dial toll

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Speaker 1: free eight hundred two seven three eight two five five

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Speaker 1: nine eight eight text or eight hundred two seven three

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Speaker 1: eight two five five because I promise you, if you

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Speaker 1: can get through that dark hour and see the sunrise

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Speaker 1: the next morning, you'll change your mind. We stop and

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Speaker 1: remember an American hero, Deputy Sheriff Isaiah Cordero, Riverside County Sheriffs.

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Speaker 1: Just thirty two, Deputy Sheriff Isaiah shot. Deputy Sheriff Isaiah

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Speaker 1: Cordero shot and killed in the line of duty, survived

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Speaker 1: by his mother, father, and brother, American hero Deputy Sheriff

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Speaker 1: Isaiah Corderio.

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Speaker 2: Thank you to Jordan's parents, John and Jennifer. So difficult

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Speaker 2: to speak about Jordan, yet they are trying their best

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Speaker 2: to be empowered and help you. Nancy Grace signing off,

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Speaker 2: good bye friend,