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The Online Life & Death of Bianca Devins - True Crime Documentary · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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  Speaker 1: On July fourteenth, twenty nineteen, I woke up, picked up
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  Speaker 1: my phone and noticed that my group chat was buzzing
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  Speaker 1: about something and I looked at it and it was
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  Speaker 1: a photo of my friend and it looked like she
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  Speaker 1: was dead. So I was reading all the messages and
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  Speaker 1: they're saying, guys, like in the discord, someone posted that
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  Speaker 1: Bianca is like dead or something, and I was like what.
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  Speaker 1: Some people on the discord actually had to call the police.
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  Speaker 2: He took a police.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, good morning.
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  Speaker 4: I believe someone may.
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  Speaker 5: Have been murdered. Okay, where Okay?
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  Speaker 6: So I'm on an online group and somebody posted a
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  Speaker 6: picture of someone getting murdered and I believe it to
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  Speaker 6: be a miss Bianca Michelle Evans.
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  Speaker 1: Before I knew it, the photo was being circulated around
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  Speaker 1: my community and then beyond it.
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  Speaker 7: So tell me, what did you see that day?
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  Speaker 8: I was on Twitter, as I usually do, just to
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  Speaker 8: gauge with stories or trending that day, and I saw
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  Speaker 8: that Beyanka's name was trending.
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  Speaker 9: I didn't know very much at that point, just that
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  Speaker 9: images had been posted.
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  Speaker 8: And we're going viral on social media, and I just
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  Speaker 8: knew that I wanted to find out more.
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  Speaker 9: I think we were all just to be reconfused. Someone
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  Speaker 9: saw something on the internet where they you know, Bianca
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  Speaker 9: may have been hurt. I am Kem Evans and I'm
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  Speaker 9: Bianca's mother.
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  Speaker 6: Janka is a galented artist, inspiring model. I knew she
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  Speaker 6: had an online presence, but I found that granddaughters do
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  Speaker 6: not share their online presence with their grandfathers, so I
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  Speaker 6: wasn't aware.
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  Speaker 9: Of the depth of the Social media was a huge
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  Speaker 9: part of Bianca's life, and online she could be whoever
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  Speaker 9: she wanted to be.
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  Speaker 8: She was definitely a social media chameleon. She had multiple
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  Speaker 8: Instagram accounts, which is not uncommon for kids her age,
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  Speaker 8: but one of them was clearly reserved for her online friends.
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  Speaker 8: You know, was fairly edgy. She was obviously very popular
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  Speaker 8: on Discord.
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  Speaker 1: It was common for some people in the community to
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  Speaker 1: try and escape or maybe to get attention to fake
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  Speaker 1: their deaths.
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  Speaker 8: As this photo is circulating on Discord and then to
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  Speaker 8: other social media platforms, the authenticity of the photo is
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  Speaker 8: being debated. A lot of people are unsure whether or
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  Speaker 8: not it's real. People were making memes out of the images.
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  Speaker 8: They were turning them into jokes.
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  Speaker 9: They were sent to me. They were sent to various
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  Speaker 9: family members.
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  Speaker 4: So this is a collection of different communications received by
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  Speaker 4: Biacha's mom, and obviously every one of them meant to
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  Speaker 4: be incredibly cruel and incredibly heartful. This is a form
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  Speaker 4: of psychological terrorism.
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  Speaker 6: I just don't understand the cruelty and the emptiness in
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  Speaker 6: someone's heart where they would get some kind of a
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  Speaker 6: thrill out of sending these pictures to a family.
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  Speaker 9: I remember just standing up and saying, no, it's not her,
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  Speaker 9: stamped up my stairs, saying it's not her. It can't be,
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  Speaker 9: it's not her, It's not my baby.
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  Speaker 10: July fourteenth, twenty nineteen, it was a beautiful day in
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  Speaker 10: Utica was our Boilermaker road Race, which is a well
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  Speaker 10: known fifteen k road race where participants from across the
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  Speaker 10: world come to run.
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  Speaker 5: As the first runners crossed the finish line, Utica police
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  Speaker 5: detectives Brian Kramato and Michael Curly heard alarming reports of
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  Speaker 5: a possible murder.
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  Speaker 3: Certainly, nothing prepared us for a homicide, and on.
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  Speaker 5: That day, the horrific photos spreading on the social media
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  Speaker 5: platform discord had prompted calls from around the country.
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  Speaker 11: Okay, what's a female name?
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  Speaker 4: Bianca?
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  Speaker 10: Michelle Devns.
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  Speaker 4: I'm hoping the girl was just leading badly and maybe
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  Speaker 4: still alive.
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  Speaker 10: And people didn't know if it was real or not.
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  Speaker 10: We needed to find her to make sure to see
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  Speaker 10: if she was all right.
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  Speaker 5: Police body cameras were rolling as officers arrived at seventeen
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  Speaker 5: year old Bianca Devon's home to perform a welfare check.
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  Speaker 7: When did you first learn that your daughter was missing?
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  Speaker 9: There was a knack at our door.
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  Speaker 12: Is there a Bianca Devins?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah? My daughter Olivia answered the door. She came up
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  Speaker 9: to me and said, ma'm the police are here. There's
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  Speaker 9: something going on with Bianca.
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  Speaker 5: The police didn't show Beanca's mother, Kim, the photo, but
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  Speaker 5: said they feared her daughter might be in danger.
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  Speaker 13: Can you try to get ahold of your daughter?
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  Speaker 7: And what were you thinking at that moment?
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  Speaker 9: I was so confused. I didn't know where Bianca was
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  Speaker 9: and won't rage.
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  Speaker 7: A race now.
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  Speaker 5: Kim told police she last saw Bianca the day before
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  Speaker 5: as she headed with friends to this concert in New
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  Speaker 5: York City.
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  Speaker 7: How was her mood when she left?
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  Speaker 9: I remember Bianca being so excited. I left her alone
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  Speaker 9: for most of the night, just giving her her space.
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  Speaker 9: And this was her first real adult concert.
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  Speaker 5: Bianca texted her mother after the concert to say she
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  Speaker 5: was heading home. Bianca was enjoying her newfound freedom, Kim says,
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  Speaker 5: after graduating high school two weeks earlier, but her journey
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  Speaker 5: to get there hadn't been easy.
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  Speaker 7: At what point did you realize she needed help?
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  Speaker 9: Biaka first saw a therapist at nine years old. She
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  Speaker 9: was having some separation anxiety. Didn't want to go to school.
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  Speaker 9: I just wanted to stay home with me. And then
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  Speaker 9: around thirteen, Bianca started showing signs of depression.
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  Speaker 5: As Beyonca isolated herself from others, she started to spend
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  Speaker 5: more time on social media.
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  Speaker 9: She really could just escape her own mental struggles with
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  Speaker 9: what was going on in her head and escaped into
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  Speaker 9: a different world online.
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  Speaker 14: Hi, It's like six in the morning and I'm currently
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  Speaker 14: editing this, but I just wanted to let you know
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  Speaker 14: that I was so funny.
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  Speaker 7: How prevalent was Bianca on social media?
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  Speaker 8: She was extremely prevalent on social media. She had a
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  Speaker 8: large presence on many platforms.
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  Speaker 5: Reporter E J. Dixon covered Beyonca's story for Rolling Stone
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  Speaker 5: magazine and says, the Internet has a name for the
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  Speaker 5: type of character Bianca portrayed.
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  Speaker 7: Online. What's an egirl.
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  Speaker 9: An e girl is?
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  Speaker 8: It's basically a term used to describe a certain type
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  Speaker 8: of aesthetic. It's like a very edgy, dark aesthetic, different
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  Speaker 8: colored hair.
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  Speaker 5: But Beyanca's behavior was growing increasingly erratic. At age sixteen,
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  Speaker 5: she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, an illness which
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  Speaker 5: Kim believes led to Beiyanca's varying mood swings and affected
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  Speaker 5: her self image.
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  Speaker 9: Bianca was very smart. She was very intuitive and self aware,
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  Speaker 9: so she always knew something was wrong and she knew
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  Speaker 9: she needed help.
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  Speaker 12: There she is with beal right on the couch now, Levia.
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  Speaker 5: Bianca sought treatment, says her grandfather Frank, and eventually returned
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  Speaker 5: to her role as a devoted big sister to Olivia
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  Speaker 5: and Maddie.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'll say that Bianca's back. That's our girl. And
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  Speaker 6: there was a glowing her eyes that when she talked
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  Speaker 6: about going to college and what she was going to
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  Speaker 6: do with her life.
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  Speaker 5: Bianca immersed herself in her art, was even getting noticed
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  Speaker 5: as a promising young model because.
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  Speaker 9: She would you get lots of compliments from models and agents,
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  Speaker 9: and she really felt good about herself when she was modeling.
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  Speaker 5: Though she had turned a corner. Bianca maintained her edgy
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  Speaker 5: online persona, and by age seventeen, had created multiple identities.
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  Speaker 8: She also had an active presence on four Chan, which
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  Speaker 8: is sort of on the darker side of the web.
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  Speaker 8: I go on the record saying four Chan is a
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  Speaker 8: dangerous place and it's also just an incredibly, incredibly misogynistic space.
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  Speaker 5: As Bianca's popularity grew online, so did the number of
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  Speaker 5: some of her male followers, called orbiters. Says online friend Elizabeth.
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  Speaker 1: The reason why they're called orbiters is because they will
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  Speaker 1: follow like a world they think is attractive online and
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  Speaker 1: you know, just like orbit them never become close to them.
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  Speaker 8: Bianca was exceptionally patient and accessible to her orbiters, to
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  Speaker 8: a fault at times.
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  Speaker 5: One orbiter who captured Bianca's attention was a twenty one
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  Speaker 5: year old lift driver named Brandon Clark, whom she met
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  Speaker 5: on Instagram in May of twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: What was he like, Honestly, nothing notable. He was just
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  Speaker 1: kind of like a normal one of these weird people,
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  Speaker 1: you know, one of these weird guys in the community.
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  Speaker 5: After communicating on social media, they eventually took their relationship
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  Speaker 5: offline and briefly dated but were never exclusive.
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  Speaker 8: Bianca had made it clear to Brandon that she was
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  Speaker 8: not interested in a committed, monogamous relationship at this point,
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  Speaker 8: and Brendan had seemed to accept that.
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  Speaker 9: When Brandon came around, and he came around pretty often,
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  Speaker 9: he just looked like a goofy, nerdy boy next door.
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  Speaker 5: Kim says there were no glaring red flags about Clark,
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  Speaker 5: so when Bianca told her mother he was taking her
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  Speaker 5: to that concert in New York City, Kim thought nothing
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  Speaker 5: of it.
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  Speaker 9: I took a little comfort in knowing that she would
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  Speaker 9: be with Brandon because I trusted.
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  Speaker 15: Him, which they were forties on pulp.
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  Speaker 5: As the search continued, Bianca's friend suspected the photos circulating
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  Speaker 5: on Discord might be a hoax. After learning it was
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  Speaker 5: Clark who posted the image.
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  Speaker 1: We all just assumed that he was making a joke
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  Speaker 1: or trying to scare us or something.
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  Speaker 8: On Discord, it's fairly common for people to post goore
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  Speaker 8: and disturbing images just to sort of get a rise
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  Speaker 8: out of people, So it was certainly within the realm
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  Speaker 8: of possibility that this could have been faked.
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  Speaker 12: Dispatched the all units, but.
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  Speaker 5: Things turned very real, very fast. We have them on
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  Speaker 5: the line now. When it was Clark who called nine
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  Speaker 5: to one one.
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  Speaker 11: My name is Brandon, the victim is Bianca Michelle Devons.
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  Speaker 9: It was like an out of body experience, but I
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  Speaker 9: was shaking. I just kept thinking, no, no, she's fine.
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  Speaker 9: We just have to find her and we're going to
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  Speaker 9: get her help.
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  Speaker 7: She's going to be okay.
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  Speaker 5: As Beyonca's family awaited news of her safety, police dispatch
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  Speaker 5: received a call nine.
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  Speaker 11: My name is Brandon.
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  Speaker 4: The victim is Bianca Michelle Devins. I'm going to kill myself.
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  Speaker 5: The officers at the Devon's home could hear what was
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  Speaker 5: unfolding on their radios.
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  Speaker 10: He is going to kill himself.
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  Speaker 7: Brandon is that X or boyfriend or apparently he's suicidal.
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  Speaker 7: He's made statements saying that he.
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  Speaker 10: Hurt your daughter.
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  Speaker 9: It didn't make sense to me. I remember just being
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  Speaker 9: very confused that they were saying that Brandon may have
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  Speaker 9: hurt her. It just didn't make sense that he would
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  Speaker 9: have hurt her.
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  Speaker 5: Investigators turned their attention to Brandon Clark, who by then
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  Speaker 5: had posted more disturbing pictures of Bianca, including one with
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  Speaker 5: this message, I'm sorry, Bianca.
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  Speaker 10: We were fighting against time at something. We needed to
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  Speaker 10: find her, and we need to find her fast, and.
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  Speaker 6: He's not telling us where he is.
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  Speaker 7: They're basically pinging his phone.
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  Speaker 5: The dispatcher tried to keep Clark talking until police could
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  Speaker 5: his location. It's just stand online with me.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, No, I'm not gonna stand a line with you, Lee.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be down on the ground.
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  Speaker 5: But before hanging up, Clark told them exactly where to
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  Speaker 5: find him. A dead end road not far from Bianca's home.
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  Speaker 5: Described for me where was Brandon and what was he doing?
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  Speaker 10: Brandon's vehicle was parked up ahead of here. An officer
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  Speaker 10: pulled up and he observes Brandon.
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  Speaker 7: Hi, what are you doing man?
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  Speaker 10: Brandon's armed with a knife.
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  Speaker 7: He has a gun pointed at him. Yeah, he engages him.
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  Speaker 5: Put the knife down, man, put the knife down.
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  Speaker 12: There's a conversation back and forth.
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  Speaker 5: Where's the girl?
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  Speaker 7: Where is she?
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  Speaker 5: As the officer moved into position, Clark slashed himself with
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  Speaker 5: a knife. He then took a selfie and posted it
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  Speaker 5: to social media with the caption ashes to ashes.
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  Speaker 7: Ultimately, back Up arrives.
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  Speaker 10: They engage him in front of his vehicle.
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  Speaker 5: A brief struggle, Clark was disarmed and placed under arrest.
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  Speaker 10: When I arrived on seeing Brandon was actually just being
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  Speaker 10: wheeled out to the ambulance.
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  Speaker 5: As paramedics race to save Clark's life, investigators made a
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  Speaker 5: grim discovery the body of a young woman hidden beneath
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  Speaker 5: the tarp. Detective Coromado knew they had found Bianca.
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  Speaker 10: If the news has got this to you, better send
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  Speaker 10: somebody to the mom's house to give her.
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  Speaker 5: Heads up before But before police could make that call,
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  Speaker 5: Kim says she had already learned the painful truth.
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  Speaker 9: And Olivia was in the kitchen with her friend and
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  Speaker 9: we heard the most excruciating scream that you have ever
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  Speaker 9: heard come out of a teenager.
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  Speaker 5: Someone had texted Bianca's family the horrific photo.
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  Speaker 9: I just kept screaming, it's not her, it's not her,
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  Speaker 9: It's not my baby.
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  Speaker 6: I knew it was her, and I said to myself,
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to be strong, get my family truths.
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  Speaker 10: That this wasn't who done it. We know who did it.
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  Speaker 10: We had to work backwards to figure out why this happened.
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  Speaker 5: Investigators started at the crime scene.
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  Speaker 14: As we were learning about Brandon. Every single thing he
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  Speaker 14: did at the crime scene meant something to him.
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  Speaker 5: Prosecutor Sarah Demilier and Michael Nolan would lead the investigation
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  Speaker 5: for the Oneida County District Attorney's Office and began with
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  Speaker 5: a cryptic message Clark spray painted at the scene.
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  Speaker 11: As this case was going. One of the things as
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  Speaker 11: we saw was that may you never forget me? The
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  Speaker 11: first thing we did and I think everybody does now
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  Speaker 11: as a prosecutor. Something you don't know what you google it.
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  Speaker 5: Investigators learned that message was taken from a series of
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  Speaker 5: Japanese comic books called pun Punk that Clark and Bianca
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  Speaker 5: had often read together.
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  Speaker 14: The books are dark, they're violent, and it's almost a
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  Speaker 14: Japanese dark version of Romeo and Juliet. Does he have
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  Speaker 14: some very skewed picture that his relationship with Bianca is
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  Speaker 14: a Starcross lover scenario, And there was.
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  Speaker 5: Something else investigators found unusual about the scene.
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  Speaker 14: The other thing that I think we found particularly eerie
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  Speaker 14: was the music at the crime scene.
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  Speaker 5: Using a Bluetooth speaker, Clark had programmed his cell phone
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  Speaker 5: to play a particular song on repeat.
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  Speaker 14: And that song was we later learned test Drive by Joji,
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  Speaker 14: about a person who is more invested in the relationship
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  Speaker 14: than somebody else.
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  Speaker 5: To understand exactly what was happening between Bianca and Clark
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  Speaker 5: that night, Investigators began reviewing their social media accounts and
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  Speaker 5: soon learned the two weren't alone at the concert.
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  Speaker 14: It wasn't just Bianca and Brandon. In fact, they were
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  Speaker 14: accompanied by another person, another guy.
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  Speaker 5: Direct messages from Beyanca's discord account revealed she had invited
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  Speaker 5: a new friend named Alex and was concerned Brandon might
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  Speaker 5: get jealous. Prosecutors tracked him down.
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  Speaker 14: He was very helpful and explaining the last moments that
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  Speaker 14: he spent with Bianca that Brandon really seemed to not
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  Speaker 14: want Alex there.
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  Speaker 5: Investigators learned that after Brandon and Bianca left the concert,
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  Speaker 5: she texted Alex to say, I think he saw me
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  Speaker 5: kiss you.
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  Speaker 14: When we do learn that there is a kiss at
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  Speaker 14: the concert, we need to explore was it a crime
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  Speaker 14: of passion? If you will? Was it a snap?
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  Speaker 5: Just before dawn, as they headed back to Utica, Clark
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  Speaker 5: made this ominous post on social media.
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  Speaker 14: Brandon has posted a photograph of what appears to be
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  Speaker 14: the New York State Thruway, and in that post, he says,
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  Speaker 14: here comes how It's redemption right?
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  Speaker 5: Even as investigators question what had happened after that and
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  Speaker 5: where nothing could have prepared them for what they would
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  Speaker 5: soon uncover.
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  Speaker 10: And we found out that there was a video of
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  Speaker 10: the murder. This is horror film playing out in real life.
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  Speaker 14: It's early in the morning when I go into the
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  Speaker 14: office and we get a call from the police department.
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  Speaker 14: They tell us, you know, there's something that you have
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  Speaker 14: to see here.
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  Speaker 5: The day after the murder of Bianca Devins, prosecutors Sarah
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  Speaker 5: Demilier and Michael Nolan went down to the Jutico Police Department.
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  Speaker 5: Overnight investigators had conducted a forensic analysis of Brandon Clark's
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  Speaker 5: cell phone and found something terrifying.
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  Speaker 14: They set us up with a computer, some speakers, and
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  Speaker 14: some headphones and pushed play, and that's when we see
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  Speaker 14: that there is a video made by Brandon of him
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  Speaker 14: killing Bianca.
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  Speaker 11: I think it wasn't until that very moment that we
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  Speaker 11: realize this was probably the most horrible, terrible thing that
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  Speaker 11: either of us have ever seen in our life.
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  Speaker 5: And as a prosecutor, many of the details are too
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  Speaker 5: gruesome to describe.
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  Speaker 14: Bianca appears to be sleeping on the back seat is
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  Speaker 14: folded out so that it's flat, He then takes his
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  Speaker 14: camera and he clips it to almost one of those
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  Speaker 14: events that would be on the front dash. What we
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  Speaker 14: see from there is the beginning of the homicide, where
• 21:21
  Speaker 14: Brandon reaches into the back. He collects from the back
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  Speaker 14: seat a knife, indicating to us that's something he came
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  Speaker 14: prepared with, and he hides it at the right hand
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  Speaker 14: side of the car. We see that he wakes Biance
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  Speaker 14: up and he goes about having a conversation with her.
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  Speaker 5: Then Demiliar says, Brandon asked Bianca about that kiss she
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: had with Alex, the other young man at the concert
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  Speaker 5: the night before.
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  Speaker 14: He tells her, you know, you know, I saw you
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  Speaker 14: kiss him, right, and she says yeah, and I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 14: and he says, well, I'm sorry. He's not good enough.
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  Speaker 14: It's just not good enough for him.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: Damiliar says it's then that Bianca reminded Clark they were
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: not exclusive.
• 22:10
  Speaker 14: And she basically says, are you ready to take me
• 22:14
  Speaker 14: home yet? And at this point, with Brandon realizing this
• 22:18
  Speaker 14: might be the end of the time that the two
• 22:21
  Speaker 14: of them are going to spend together, we see him
• 22:24
  Speaker 14: grab the knife.
• 22:27
  Speaker 9: She does not see it coming.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: Demiliar says, Clark then killed Bianca.
• 22:34
  Speaker 14: And then he blames her. He screams dramatically into the camera,
• 22:38
  Speaker 14: you know, Bianca, why did you make me do this?
• 22:41
  Speaker 14: Like it's her fault and it's not.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: It was after he finished filming the video that Clark
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: took those graphic photos of Bianca and posted them on
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: social media.
• 22:52
  Speaker 9: And I know that she had gotten out of that car,
• 22:55
  Speaker 9: she would have called.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: Me Beanca's mother and grandfather have never seen the video,
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: but heard of its contents early on in the investigation.
• 23:04
  Speaker 9: I was ten minutes away. She had just been able
• 23:08
  Speaker 9: to get out of that car, but he caught her
• 23:10
  Speaker 9: completely off guard.
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: Does that haunt you today? It does.
• 23:16
  Speaker 9: I was so close that she fought him, and she
• 23:20
  Speaker 9: fought back.
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: That impressed me most was she fought for her life.
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: But the sickening murder video wasn't the only important piece
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: of evidence investigators found on Clark's cell phone. They learned
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: that he was intent on killing Bianca long before the events.
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: Of that night.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: We learned that Brandon is meticulous in his cateorgization itemization
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: of things that he wants to do.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: Two days before killing Bianca, Clark utilized the notes app
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: on his smartphone and typed a sinister checklist.
• 23:55
  Speaker 14: I would just describe this list as the to do list,
• 23:58
  Speaker 14: the things that he needs to do to carry out
• 24:00
  Speaker 14: his plan into stages.
• 24:02
  Speaker 11: Crime scene, set up, speaker, and last song question mark.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: And that's not all. Clark did multiple internet searches, some
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: the day before the murder, researching ways to kill.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: He searched how to choke someone out, how to hit
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: the crowded artery to kill.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: Someone more evidence. Investigators say that this was not a
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: crime of passion.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Brandon had this planned. He had the video staged, he
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: had the phone staged. He knew exactly what he was doing.
• 24:39
  Speaker 14: We believe that when this relationship came to an end
• 24:44
  Speaker 14: was when he was going to kill her.
• 24:45
  Speaker 11: Brandon wanted to be with her, she did not want
• 24:48
  Speaker 11: to be with him, and he wasn't gonna let anybod
• 24:50
  Speaker 11: else have her. So no matter what she said, she
• 24:55
  Speaker 11: was going to wind up dead.
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: That night, two weeks after the murder, Bianca's family and
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: friends packed the courtroom wearing pink, her favorite color, as
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: they waited for Brandon Clark to make his first public appearance.
• 25:10
  Speaker 9: Brandon walked into the courtroom today wearing an orange jumpsuit
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: and a black protective vet.
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: I was in court when they brought him in, and
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: I said, he just looks pathetic.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: Clark was officially charged with second degree murder and pleaded
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: not guilty. The defense was considering an extreme emotional disturbance defense,
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: but authorities and Byanca's family were not buying it.
• 25:37
  Speaker 9: Investigators and the prosecutors describe him as just an evil
• 25:42
  Speaker 9: person that wanted to murder someone. And that's who Brandon is.
• 25:48
  Speaker 9: He is a murderer. He is evil.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: And as prosecutors prepared to go to trial, they had
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: only one goal in mind.
• 25:56
  Speaker 14: We need justice for Bianca and we need to make
• 25:59
  Speaker 14: sure Brandon can never hurt anybody else again. That's what
• 26:02
  Speaker 14: our job is.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: But there was nothing they could do to stop what
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: was going on online. The horrific images of Beyonca's murder
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: that Clark had posted continued to spread on the Internet,
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: and a vile campaign of hate was brewing on social media.
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: Bianca's family members were also being targeted as a result.
• 26:23
  Speaker 9: Of Bianca's death. It was just NonStop harassment.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: This is a form of psychological terrorism.
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: In the days following Beyonca's murder, downtown Utica was lit
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: up in pink in her honor, and a candlelight vigil
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: was held to celebrate her life. Supporters gathered to sing
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: puff the Magic Dragon, a song her grandfather, Frank, sang
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: to Bianca as a child, a tradition she continued with
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: her baby sister, Maddie.
• 27:18
  Speaker 12: Puff the Magic Dragon, That's the special song.
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: But as Bianca's family grieved, the images of her dead
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: body had spilled from the fringes of the Internet into
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: mainstream social media.
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: I just can't understand the white people would want to
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: see it.
• 27:43
  Speaker 12: This is real.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: Frank believes those who shared the photos didn't see Bianca
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: as a loving daughter or a cherished granddaughter. They didn't
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: see her as a person at all.
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: These pictures aren't fictitious pictures taken from a movie. They're
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: of a lovely, beautiful girl whose life was taken from
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: her in a cruel way.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: Bianca's death photos spread on the social media platforms Facebook, Instagram,
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: and Twitter.
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: When you found out that your daughter's images were on Twitter.
• 28:18
  Speaker 9: It's heartbreaking. It's so exploitive of my daughter. I just
• 28:23
  Speaker 9: thought of how embarrassed she would be, how heartbroken she
• 28:27
  Speaker 9: would be.
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: Completed with social media companies to remove the images, but
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: it took time.
• 28:34
  Speaker 9: They stayed on Instagram and Facebook for at least a
• 28:39
  Speaker 9: couple of weeks.
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: Every time the photo was removed, another one would appear
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: in its place, says reporter EJ. Dixon.
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: Unfortunately, extremely violent and disturbing images can circulate wildly on
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: social media, and a lot of social media platforms don't
• 28:54
  Speaker 8: have the infrastructure in place to prevent that from happening.
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: In response, some social media users led a grassroots effort
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: to replace the death photos with messages of hope.
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: So Beyonca's supporters tried to combat people trolling the hashtag
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: by posting beautiful images of clouds, bunnies, ribbons, or fan
• 29:17
  Speaker 8: art of Bianca like we see here. To what end
• 29:19
  Speaker 8: they did it to push the death photos down in
• 29:21
  Speaker 8: the search results.
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: But amid the battle to preserve Bianca's memory, Kim says
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: her family became victims of vicious online trolls who relentlessly
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: sent them the horrific photos.
• 29:34
  Speaker 9: They were sent to me. They were sent to various
• 29:39
  Speaker 9: family members that were close to Bianca. Olivia's had to
• 29:42
  Speaker 9: take a break from social media because there's always the
• 29:45
  Speaker 9: risk of having to see her sister's death photo.
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: Along with the photos were hateful messages blaming Bianca for
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: what happened to her, many of which are too graphic
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: to show.
• 29:58
  Speaker 9: It's horrifying. Its traumatiz to see people saying that your daughter,
• 30:04
  Speaker 9: you're you know, this is my baby, that she deserved
• 30:09
  Speaker 9: such a cruel end her life.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: They're in you know, direct messaging and text messages to
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: the family. A very twisted need is being met by
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: continuing to share these and trying to get these two
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: Beyanka's family. It actually furthers the physical crime.
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: Behavioral scientist Stephen Cremando believes the individuals most likely responsible
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: for the attacks on Beyonca's family belonged to a community
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: of online men called in cells.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: In cell is short for involuntary celibate. In cells or
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: individuals men twenty one or older who have gone six
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: months or longer without any sort of sexual activity not
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: by their own volition.
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: Inceels see themselves as victims, says Cremando, in a never
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: ending st struggle to win the affection of attractive women,
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: whom they refer to as Stacy's.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: In cells believe that they don't have any chance with
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: Stacy's at all.
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: Was Bianca considered a stacy, Bianca would be considered as stacy.
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: Though Clark did not identify as an INCEL, he was
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: celebrated by this dark community for what he did to Bianca.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: The inceell feels badly cheated, to the point where it
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: becomes just an obsessive thought that I need to strike
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: back for the unfairness.
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: In fact, this violent rhetoric has led to murder. In
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: twenty fourteen, a twenty two year old self identified in
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: cell went on a deadly rampage in Ila Vista, California,
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: killing six people. Since then, the intelligence community believes there
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: have been more than a dozen mass killings in north
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: of Many, America resulting and fifty deaths attributed to in
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: cell ideology.
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: And as there's been more in cell killings, has become
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: more clear to us that there is on this spectrum
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: of in cells those at the extreme end who are
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: certainly capable of murder, and because of that, it's recognized
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: now as a terrorist threat.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: We all knew that we were in the line of fire,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: and I was honestly afraid to leave my house.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: The response to Bianca's murder by the in cell community
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: served as a wake up call for friends like Elizabeth
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: and other young women in their online world who realize
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: they too could be targets.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: You know, those same in cell communities that were praising
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Brandon's actions, We're saying, Oh, I wonder who's going to
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: be next. I can't wait for the next victim or know,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: or the next girl to be killed.
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: As Clark's case headed to trial, emotions ran high for
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: Beyanca's family, who feared her murder video would be played
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: in court.
• 33:14
  Speaker 9: My last memory of Bianca is her full of life,
• 33:19
  Speaker 9: so excited. Soon to have to see her in her
• 33:23
  Speaker 9: last moments, how she was brutally murdered is absolutely traumatizing,
• 33:29
  Speaker 9: in something no one should ever see.
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: But shortly before his trial began in February twenty twenty,
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: Clark pleaded guilty to Beyanca's murder.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: I know that's sorry.
• 33:39
  Speaker 12: He's not enough.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: I know that.
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: I won't take back why.
• 33:43
  Speaker 9: I didn't, He said he wanted to spare us from
• 33:46
  Speaker 9: having to see the details of Bianca's murder.
• 33:49
  Speaker 7: Did you believe him?
• 33:50
  Speaker 9: I don't believe him.
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: Kim may have been right to be suspicious. Before sentencing,
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: Clark changed his mind yet again and wanted to go
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: to trial.
• 34:01
  Speaker 10: We know that he PE's playing a game with everybody.
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: Just five months after pleading guilty to murdering Bianca Devns,
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: Brandon Clark was back in court to try and change
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: his pleed back to not guilty. This request infuriated the
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: Devons family, who had already been through so much.
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: Don't play games, take your punishment, give this family some
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: peace out.
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: Bianca's mom said she knew why Clark now wanted to
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: go to trial.
• 34:48
  Speaker 9: He found out that there were media and production companies
• 34:52
  Speaker 9: interested in Bianca's story, and he wanted to be able
• 34:54
  Speaker 9: to tell his side.
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: Clark wouldn't admit to that. Months later, he took the
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: stand to plead his case.
• 35:02
  Speaker 14: Do you sell me swear that testimony you're about to
• 35:04
  Speaker 14: get say truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: Still help him that.
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: He blamed his former attorney, Luke Neiebush, a well respected
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: local public defender, for not visiting him enough in prison
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: and pressuring him into pleading guilty.
• 35:20
  Speaker 13: Oh you knew that was a first time offender and
• 35:22
  Speaker 13: had no knowledge of the legal system, knowledge about court proceedings.
• 35:26
  Speaker 9: You stay your name.
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: On the stand. Niebush said Clark's claims were not true.
• 35:34
  Speaker 10: I went to the United County Jail fifteen times prior
• 35:38
  Speaker 10: to displete.
• 35:40
  Speaker 12: There were moments where I spent four or five hours
• 35:41
  Speaker 12: with him.
• 35:42
  Speaker 10: They were moments where spent two, maybe an average of three.
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: He said. In fact, he was the one who encouraged
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: his former client to plead not guilty and go to trial,
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: but it was Clark who refused.
• 35:56
  Speaker 11: Again, whose ideal was it to plead guilty to these charges?
• 36:00
  Speaker 12: Clerk's?
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: And it was your intention to take this set, yes,
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: And during cross examination, prosecutor Mike Nolan demolished Clark's argument
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: about his supposed legal knowledge.
• 36:13
  Speaker 11: You're making claims that mister Niebish didn't do his job,
• 36:15
  Speaker 11: but you don't know that, correct.
• 36:18
  Speaker 13: With the resources I was provided, it looks like he
• 36:20
  Speaker 13: did not do his job.
• 36:22
  Speaker 11: And again, what law school did you go to, mister Clark?
• 36:24
  Speaker 11: I did not go to laws right, so you don't
• 36:26
  Speaker 11: know that correct?
• 36:28
  Speaker 12: Correct?
• 36:29
  Speaker 7: Thank you.
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: The judge denied Brandon Clark's request to withdraw his guilty plead,
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: and on March sixteenth, twenty twenty one, nearly two years
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: after Bianca was murdered, he was finally brought in to
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: be sentenced.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: Are there any family members that would like to address
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: the court.
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: Yes, Sir, Honna, Beanca's mother and grandfather had been waiting
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: a long time to face Beanca's killer.
• 36:55
  Speaker 9: With the death of your child comes most unimaginable, indescribable pain,
• 37:00
  Speaker 9: a pain that time cannot heal and only seems to worsen.
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: But Brandon, for the cruel manner in which you took
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: my granddaughter's life, For the total disregard you had for
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: a human life, For the callous act in which you
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: posted pictures of her murdered body on social media to
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: gratify your own selfish purposes, you, Brandon, deserve to spend
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: the rest of your life in prison.
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: Before the judge read his sentence, Clark gave a statement.
• 37:32
  Speaker 13: I hate myself for why died. I'm so sorry that
• 37:35
  Speaker 13: I put everyone through this. I'm so sorry that I
• 37:37
  Speaker 13: put Bianca through this. I wish I could apologize her
• 37:40
  Speaker 13: and just apologize and apologize and just take it back.
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: But did you all believe his apology? Did you think
• 37:50
  Speaker 7: it was sincere at all?
• 37:52
  Speaker 12: No, not sincere.
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: That's part of his story is to play oh poor me.
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: It's not about what he did to Bianca. It's all
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: about him.
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: The judge also appeared unmoved by Clark's apology and gave
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: him the maximum sentence for murdering Bianca, twenty five years
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: to life.
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: Our deepest thoughts now are with Bianca, our angel, who
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: has given so much a love of him to this family.
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: But despite their relief, Bianca's family knows their fight may
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: not be over. After Clark serves twenty five years in prison,
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: he could be eligible for parole. He will be in
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: his late forties.
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: Did Bianca receive justice?
• 38:44
  Speaker 10: No?
• 38:45
  Speaker 9: Justice would be Bianca being alive.
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: But the justice for Bianca now takes a different form.
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: Bianca's family is trying to turn their grief into action.
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: They have worked with local politicians like then Congressman Anthony
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: Brindissi to try and get Beyonca's Law passed.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: And today we are putting social media companies on notice.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: We are taking substantive action on the federal level to
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: bring the Devin's family peace and ensure this never happens
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: to another family again.
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: Beyonca's Law is a bill that would hold social media
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: companies accountable for violent and graphic content that they allow
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: on their platforms.
• 39:29
  Speaker 6: So we looked at that as a start for a
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: series of laws and policies that would prevent death photos
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: like Bianca's from being put up on social media.
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: They also have established a scholarship in Beyanca's name.
• 39:46
  Speaker 6: And that we'll go to a student who is going
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: to follow Beyanca's ambitions.
• 39:50
  Speaker 12: Of helping help you get lessons with mental health like Bianca.
• 40:02
  Speaker 7: Yet, how do you want Bianca to be remembered.
• 40:10
  Speaker 9: I want Biaka to be remembered for her smile, for
• 40:14
  Speaker 9: her bright spirit, for her huge caring heart. Yaco always
• 40:20
  Speaker 9: wanted to help someone. Even in her worst struggles, when
• 40:24
  Speaker 9: she couldn't help herself, she helped others and she.
• 40:28
  Speaker 12: Will never ever be forgotten.
• 40:49
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• 41:22
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