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Speaker 1: A quick note. This is episode four of a six

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Speaker 1: part series. If you haven't heard the prior episodes, we

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Speaker 1: recommend going back and starting there. It should also be

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Speaker 1: noted that this series explores sexualized imagery involving miners and violence.

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Speaker 1: Please take care when listening. Detective Timothy Ingram in New

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Speaker 1: York was en route to make an arrest. He had

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Speaker 1: been working the Levittown Deep Fate case for eight months,

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Speaker 1: ever since a number of young women first called the

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Speaker 1: police that New Year's Eve. He had had enough. It

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Speaker 1: was five o'clock in the evening when Tim and his

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Speaker 2: It looked like a regular house. The grass was caught,

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Speaker 1: The house had a backyard that she had a fence

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Speaker 2: It was just just an everyday house where you wouldn't

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Speaker 1: That morning, yet another young woman had walked into a

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Speaker 1: one that matched the stories of so many others. This time, though,

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Speaker 1: the detectives had already received some key evidence evidence that

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Speaker 1: showed the person behind the posts was a guy many

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Speaker 1: of the women knew someone they went to high school with,

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Speaker 1: Patrick Carry, And at that.

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Speaker 2: Point my partner and I at the time kind of

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Speaker 2: looked at each other and you know, this has to end. Now,

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Speaker 2: whether we go to his house and he clams up

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Speaker 2: So he turned around and he told his mom that

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Speaker 2: you know, we just want to we want to talk

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Speaker 2: to you about some things that are going on the internet.

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Speaker 2: And I said, I'm going to read this to you now.

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Speaker 2: I wanted him to hear out loud the things he

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Speaker 2: other people knowing about what he was doing, and that's

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Speaker 2: when we started to read this murder rape fantasy, and

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Speaker 2: maybe halfway through it, his mother asked us to stop.

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Speaker 2: Looked at him. She had some choice words for him,

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Speaker 2: and he looked at us, dead in the eyes, and

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Speaker 2: he said, yeah, it was me. I did it.

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Speaker 1: What are the choice words his mum said to him.

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Speaker 2: I believe she said, you're a fucking asshole.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Yes, And at that point we didn't need anything else,

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Speaker 2: you know, he admitted to everything without us asking a

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Speaker 1: We attempted to speak with Patrick and his family for

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Speaker 1: the story and they declined. Do you remember your reaction

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I was shocked that they had built the case

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Speaker 1: It had been months since Patrick's off and on high

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Speaker 1: school friend Cecilia had given her statement to detectives. She

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Speaker 4: It because when it happened, I didn't think that it

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Speaker 4: So when I found out that he was arrested, I

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Speaker 1: These concerns that Cecilia had about whether what Patrick Carey

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Speaker 1: those were the very same concerns nagging the prosecutors in charge.

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Speaker 4: Of this case.

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Speaker 1: Patrick Carey's behavior was awful, but was it criminal?

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Speaker 5: iHeart podcasts, Bloomberg and Kaleidoscope. This is Lavet Town. I'm

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Speaker 5: Margie Marthy.

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Speaker 1: And I'm Olivia Carvell. That night, Patrick was pulled off

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Speaker 1: the questions the detectives had for Patrick was why why

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Speaker 1: and I had for Patrick. Patrick and his former attorney

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Speaker 1: declined to be interviewed for this podcast, but what we

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Speaker 1: do have is the statement he gave the evening of

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Speaker 1: his arrest. Patrick started by admitting that he was the

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Speaker 1: sole person behind several usernames on the website, and that

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Speaker 1: he had been active there since twenty nineteen, his senior

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Speaker 6: I started using these accounts because I became bored and

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Speaker 6: could not find any interest in my life.

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Speaker 1: This is a voice actor reading verbatim from Patrick's confession.

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Speaker 6: I became addicted to internet pornography and began to find

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Speaker 6: websites such as comeonprintedpecks dot com.

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Speaker 1: Patrick says he used the website for more than two years,

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Speaker 1: posting pictures of the girls he went to high school with,

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Speaker 6: These females into a depression and caused them to be

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Speaker 6: too scared to use any form of social media. I

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Speaker 6: This gave me a sense of life, knowing that in

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Speaker 1: He described it as almost an obsession, a cycle of

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Speaker 6: From time to time throughout the course of me posting

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Speaker 6: knowing it was wrong. I am sorry for the fear,

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Speaker 6: suffering and embarrassment I have caused to all of the victims.

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Speaker 7: I'm going through it and I'm reading his statement and

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Speaker 7: I'm like, hey, wow, it was awful, Like it was

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Speaker 1: Assistant District Attorney Melissa Scannell was at her desk the

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Speaker 1: Monday morning after Patrick's arrest. Melissa has experienced prosecuting sex crimes.

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Speaker 1: She's also the head of the officer's cyber crimes unit.

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Speaker 1: The details of this particular report jumped.

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Speaker 7: Out a lot of what I do. I see really

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Speaker 7: horrible things, and I have, you know, my prior cases,

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Speaker 3: Is this that bad? Is this worse?

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Speaker 7: You know, like, am I reacting normally here?

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Speaker 1: After she read Patrick's statement, she ran down the hall

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Speaker 1: to find her colleague Kelsey.

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Speaker 5: Laura, it was shocking.

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Speaker 3: It was the things he was saying, what he was

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Speaker 3: doing was it was. It was shocking, and it kind

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Speaker 3: of it stays with you. To me, it seemed like

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Speaker 3: the purpose of the website wasn't even sexual anymore. It

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Speaker 1: Kelsey's another assistant DA. She usually works on racketeering cases,

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Speaker 1: things like organized crime, drug trafficking, extortion, but this case

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Speaker 1: was different. It was more personal. Kelsey had graduated from

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Speaker 1: and realized it was a series of misdemeanor harassment and

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Speaker 1: obscenity violations, meaning Patrick would only face up to a

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Speaker 7: There were absolutely some posts where he was soliciting death

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Speaker 7: death or repe fantasies. When does that become somebody who says, Okay,

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Speaker 1: They believed he should be charged with at least one felony,

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Speaker 1: Patrick had since been released from police custody and was

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Speaker 1: back at his family's home awaiting next steps. New York

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Speaker 1: law gave the prosecutors only ninety days to figure out

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Speaker 7: Because if the charges get dismissed, them were out of luck.

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Speaker 7: We can't charge him with anything else.

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Speaker 1: The prosecutors weren't sure if what Patrick had done creating

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Speaker 7: This is awful, This should be illegal.

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Speaker 1: But what is this?

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Speaker 7: What is this crime?

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Speaker 1: He was posting morphed naked photos of teenage girls.

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Speaker 6: How is that not illegal?

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Speaker 7: Because they weren't real.

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Speaker 1: Patrick could argue that these posts were artistic expression, which

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Speaker 1: is protected under the First Amendment. This is something that

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Speaker 1: still hasn't been settled in US courts, so the prosecutors

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Speaker 7: Off to the races.

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Speaker 8: The first thing we did was start going through the

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Speaker 8: didn't know now that he had been arrested, is he

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Speaker 7: At this point, we didn't know what we were where

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Speaker 1: They had to start by identifying everyone who Patrick had targeted,

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Speaker 7: At some point in the beginning, we just had nicknames

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Speaker 7: You know, he did attach their names, but we might

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Speaker 7: be looking not chronologically because we're going by username or things.

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Speaker 7: So we had a lot of nicknames for these young women, like, oh, no,

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Speaker 7: we've seen her before. That's you know. We had one

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Speaker 7: we called Eyeliner because she always had her eyeliner was

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Speaker 7: we were going through the website by itself, we were

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Speaker 7: things like that, and then partly not to sound ridiculous

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Speaker 7: a very difficult sight to go through, and you needed

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Speaker 1: The two women split up the work. Kelsey took the lead,

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Speaker 1: This series is reported and hosted by Margie Murphy and

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Speaker 1: Executive produced by Kate Osborne. Original composition and mixing by

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Speaker 1: Steve Bone. Patrick Carey's words were read by Jackson ark Our.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg editors are Caitlin Kenney and Jeff Grocot. Additional reporting

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