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TikTok Stars Involved in Shocking True Crime Cases · The conspiracy

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  Speaker 1: you sick, beautiful, intellectual-minded freak. There we go, much better.
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  Speaker 1: And we are talking about just that, specifically TikTok and murder.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you three stories about three TikTokers
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  Speaker 1: that went from dancing behind their phones, to dancing in
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  Speaker 1: jail cells. All three of these stories are vastly different
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  Speaker 1: and very interesting to say the least. One of them
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  Speaker 1: happened only a couple weeks ago. So let's unbuckle our seatbelts,
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  Speaker 1: the video. We're gonna be starting out with Claire Miller.
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  Speaker 1: It was the kind of night where everything felt eerily calm,
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  Speaker 1: where the silence in the suburbs was almost stifling. Underneath
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  Speaker 1: that stillness in a modest home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Claire
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  Speaker 1: Miller was about to make a phone call that would
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  Speaker 1: shatter that serenity forever. Her voice, trembling and panicked, echoed
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  Speaker 1: through the phone as she spoke to the 911 dispatcher.
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  Speaker 1: I killed my sister. And the clock read 1 0
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  Speaker 1: 8 AM. So let's talk about Claire's backstory. Claire Miller
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  Speaker 1: was just like any other teenager in many ways. 14
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  Speaker 1: years old, a sophomore in high school and glued to
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  Speaker 1: her phone as you do. And she found solace in
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  Speaker 1: the world of TikTok. What a loser, just kidding. Under
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  Speaker 1: the name Spirit and Such Consulting, she had cultivated a
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  Speaker 1: following in the tens of thousands, posting lip syncs, quirky
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  Speaker 1: dance routines, and videos that showcased a girl who, on
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  Speaker 1: the surface, appeared carefree and playful. But the screen concealed
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  Speaker 1: what lay behind her smiling selfies and perfectly timed TikTok trends.
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  Speaker 1: And her family was unique to say the least. Her sister, Helen,
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  Speaker 1: had cerebral palsy and was bound to a wheelchair. Helen
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  Speaker 1: required constant care, and as a result, much of the
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  Speaker 1: family's time and energy revolved around her. Claire, while loving
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  Speaker 1: her sister, often found herself in the background. Her role
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  Speaker 1: as the able-bodied sibling felt at times like a supporting
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  Speaker 1: character in somebody else's life. a life dominated by caregiving
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  Speaker 1: and silent sacrifices. And Helen was 19 years old at
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  Speaker 1: the time. And Claire's TikTok was her escape. It was
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  Speaker 1: her platform and her space to be seen, to be
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  Speaker 1: the center of attention. Although she did sometimes put her
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  Speaker 1: sister in her TikToks and people really loved that as well.
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  Speaker 1: So even then, some of the spotlight was being taken
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  Speaker 1: away from Claire. But TikTok still gave her a sense
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  Speaker 1: of validation that she didn't feel at home. But the
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  Speaker 1: more time Claire spent on TikTok, the further she drifted
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  Speaker 1: from people around her. Her parents noticed a big change
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  Speaker 1: in her behavior. She became withdrawal, her moods unpredictable. Sounds
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  Speaker 1: like just a typical teenage girl to me, personally. But
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  Speaker 1: there were whispers in her family about her self-isolation. But
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  Speaker 1: Claire kind of kept her feelings bottled up and just
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  Speaker 1: pushed them aside and didn't really tell anybody about anything.
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  Speaker 1: And to forget everything, she would just hit the record
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  Speaker 1: on her phone. And to her growing number of followers,
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  Speaker 1: Claire just seemed like any other teen navigating the complexities
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  Speaker 1: of adolescence. But as her online persona grew brighter, her
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  Speaker 1: real world self began to fade. Underneath the lighthearted TikToks
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  Speaker 1: was a girl who felt increasingly alone, suffocated with the
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  Speaker 1: weight of her role in her family and her own
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  Speaker 1: internal turmoil. And in the months leading up to the incident,
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  Speaker 1: Claire's TikTok posts became stranger and more cryptic. Some of
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  Speaker 1: her videos hinted a deeper emotional struggle. Her playful dance
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  Speaker 1: routines interrupted by dark, almost haunting lyrics. And her followers
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  Speaker 1: did comment on it. But most just brush it aside
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  Speaker 1: as like a typical teenaged angst, which I see on
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  Speaker 1: TikTok all the time. It's very hard to spot, you know,
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  Speaker 1: who's angsty and who's gonna murder one of their family members.
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  Speaker 1: But the true depths of pain and anger would only
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  Speaker 1: become evident later on, on the night of February 22nd,
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  Speaker 1: 2021 to be specific. So on that night, Claire was
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  Speaker 1: feeling very restless, haunted by nightmares and weird visions of
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  Speaker 1: people talking to her in her sleep. almost like demons
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  Speaker 1: of sorts that she claims. And that would cause her
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  Speaker 1: to get up in the middle of the night and
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  Speaker 1: walk over to her sister's room, Helen, who was peacefully
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  Speaker 1: sleeping in her bedroom. And no one knows exactly what
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  Speaker 1: was racing through Claire's mind in those moments before she
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  Speaker 1: picked up the knife. No one can truly understand the
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  Speaker 1: exact emotions that twisted through her as she stood over
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  Speaker 1: her sleeping sister. Was it Anger, was it jealousy or desperation?
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  Speaker 1: We don't know and we probably won't ever know. But
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  Speaker 1: in a flash of violence, Claire's world would change forever.
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  Speaker 1: She would bring down the knife on her sister who
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  Speaker 1: was still sleeping in her wheelchair and she would stab
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  Speaker 1: her to death. And after the attack, Claire just stood there, breathless.
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  Speaker 1: Her body moved on almost an autopilot as she grabbed
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  Speaker 1: the phone and dialed 911. And her voice cracked as
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  Speaker 1: she's told the dispatcher the unthinkable. I killed my sister.
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  Speaker 1: And there was no attempt to flee, no grand coverup,
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  Speaker 1: just a chilling confession and desperate plea for help. And
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  Speaker 1: when the police arrived, Claire was outside, her hands and
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  Speaker 1: clothes wet with her own sister's blood. And her face
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  Speaker 1: was just masked with shock as though she herself couldn't
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  Speaker 1: fully comprehend what she had just done. And inside the house,
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  Speaker 1: officers found Helen deceased. It was much too late to
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  Speaker 1: save her life, unfortunately. And news of the murder quickly spread,
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  Speaker 1: drawing attention from across the nation. Claire Miller wasn't just
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  Speaker 1: any teenager. She was a TikTok personality. Her account, Spirits
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  Speaker 1: and Such Consulting, had grown in the aftermath of the
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  Speaker 1: crime as well, with thousands more flocking to her page,
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  Speaker 1: which is so searching for answers in her videos. But
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  Speaker 1: even her following count grew like enormously, which is strange.
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  Speaker 1: But the comment sections were flooded with disbelief, speculation, and
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  Speaker 1: just morbid curiosity. How could a girl who had posted
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  Speaker 1: dance videos, harmless dance videos and TikTok trends be capable
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  Speaker 1: of such violence and at such a young age as well?
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  Speaker 1: And Claire's arrest and trial became a media spectacle, not
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  Speaker 1: just because of the brutality of the crime, but because
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  Speaker 1: of the complexity of her mental state during the crime.
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  Speaker 1: She was only 14 years old, but was being charged
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  Speaker 1: as an adult under Pennsylvania law. which is not common.
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  Speaker 1: She is being charged as an adult with homicide. Her
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  Speaker 1: arrangement is soon at a local district justice office. So
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  Speaker 1: the courtroom was just filled with tension that weighed on
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  Speaker 1: everyone who watched the proceedings unfold. And Claire's defense team
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  Speaker 1: argued that she was mentally ill, suffering from severe psychological
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  Speaker 1: distress that clouded her judgment of the night of the murder.
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  Speaker 1: But psychiatrists would examine her, combing through her mind for answers,
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  Speaker 1: but the results were inconclusive. While it was clear she
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  Speaker 1: was deeply disturbed. She wasn't considered legally insane at the
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  Speaker 1: time of the crime. And as the defense lawyer pushed
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  Speaker 1: for her case to be transferred to juvenile court, Claire
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  Speaker 1: would just sit quietly, her face in a blank slate,
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  Speaker 1: as if the enormity of her actions hadn't fully sunk in.
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  Speaker 1: But despite the psychological evaluations and countless court hearings, the
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  Speaker 1: motive behind Claire's actions remained murky. She never provided a
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  Speaker 1: clear reason for why she had killed Helen, her sister.
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  Speaker 1: And any details from her mental health evaluations were kept private,
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  Speaker 1: leaving the public just to speculate on their own. So
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  Speaker 1: was it the strain of caring for her sister, the
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  Speaker 1: pressure of adolescence compounded by TikTok fame, or something even
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  Speaker 1: deeper hidden beneath the layers of emotional trauma? Again, we'll
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  Speaker 1: probably never know. So in March of 2023, Claire Miller
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  Speaker 1: pleaded guilty to third-degree murder. And the court determined while
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  Speaker 1: she was mentally ill, she was not legally insane. So
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  Speaker 1: she was sentenced to a prison term ranging from 12
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  Speaker 1: and a half to 40 years. And her TikTok account,
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  Speaker 1: once a source of pride and validation, had been removed
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  Speaker 1: from the platform. But not before it had amassed a
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  Speaker 1: larger following in the wake of the tragedy. And this
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  Speaker 1: raised unsettling questions about the role social media played in
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  Speaker 1: her life. and the lives of countless other teens navigating
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  Speaker 1: their formative years under the scrutiny of a virtual audience.
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  Speaker 1: And Claire would also petition to have her case moved
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  Speaker 1: to juvenile court, but it was declined in July of 2022.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, that's the story of Claire Miller,
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  Speaker 1: and it's so devastating and sad, and it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: unnerving not to know exactly why it happened. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: clearly she was disturbed and not in her right mind,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't know. I just, it's just a whole,
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  Speaker 1: it's nightmare fuel. But that brings us to our next TikToker,
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  Speaker 1: Marianne Oliver Snow. So the living room was warm, a
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  Speaker 1: soft glow from the TV flickering across the faces of
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  Speaker 1: Helen Hastings and Mary Ann Oliver Snow. Around them, laughter
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  Speaker 1: filled the air as a group of friends gathered on
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  Speaker 1: a lazy Houston evening, watching an episode of Gotham. Bottles
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  Speaker 1: of vodka and Dr. Pepper sat half empty on the table,
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  Speaker 1: mixing with the faint scent of cigarette smoke in the air.
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  Speaker 1: The camaraderie was palpable, the kind only found in close-knit
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  Speaker 1: circles of young adults who shared a love for the
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  Speaker 1: same odd dark worlds, anime, cosplay, and the bizarre characters
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  Speaker 1: of video games. And Marianne, known online to thousands as
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  Speaker 1: Yondir Freak or Snow the Salt Queen, was the undeniable
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  Speaker 1: star of the room. Draped in her usual cosplay-inspired clothing,
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  Speaker 1: She gestured excitedly at the TV and said, I've got
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  Speaker 1: a gun like that. And she would laugh drunkenly. The
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  Speaker 1: others laughed too, none of them realizing that what began
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  Speaker 1: as a joke would soon turn into a nightmare. And
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  Speaker 1: Helen Hastings was one of the friends in the room
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  Speaker 1: with Marianne. Helen at the time was 18 years old
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  Speaker 1: and brimming with potential. She was on her break from
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  Speaker 1: freshman year at Oberlin College, a brilliant line caught between
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  Speaker 1: the disciplines of art, psychology, and neurobiology. Helen truly had
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  Speaker 1: a future that was boundless. And her passion for creativity
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  Speaker 1: stretched beyond the classroom, spilling into the colorful, chaotic world
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  Speaker 1: of cosplay. And it was here in the subculture where
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  Speaker 1: people became someone or something else that Helen found an
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  Speaker 1: outlet for her imagination and a community that welcomed her
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  Speaker 1: in all her uniqueness. And among her friends in Houston,
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  Speaker 1: Mary Ann was one of the closest. And despite the
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  Speaker 1: five-year age gap, Their shared love of cosplay, dark humor,
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  Speaker 1: and anime bonded them. And Marianne had become somewhat of
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  Speaker 1: an online sensation, amassing thousands of followers on TikTok for
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  Speaker 1: her portrayal of intricate, often sinister characters, and Helen admired
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  Speaker 1: that about her. But beyond the cosplay costumes and playful
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  Speaker 1: online personas, Helen faced her own battles. Behind the bright
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  Speaker 1: smile and creative mind, she struggled with anxiety and depression.
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  Speaker 1: And cosplay offered her that escape, but sometimes even the
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  Speaker 1: costumes couldn't keep that darkness at bay. And for Marianne,
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  Speaker 1: cosplay was more than just a hobby. It was a
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  Speaker 1: way to express parts of herself that otherwise felt disconnected.
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  Speaker 1: And her online persona, Yandere Freak, was infamous for embracing
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  Speaker 1: characters who walked the line between innocence and malevolence. One
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  Speaker 1: of her most notable cosplays was Junko Enoshima, or Inoshima.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry if I'm saying that wrong. A character from the
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  Speaker 1: game Danganronpa. Also sorry if I'm saying that wrong. A
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  Speaker 1: villain with a penchant for chaos, danger, and manipulation. And
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  Speaker 1: the blurred line between Marianne's online identity and her real
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  Speaker 1: self was becoming more apparent to those around her. The
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  Speaker 1: characters she embodies were often really dark, chaotic figures. And
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  Speaker 1: there were moments when her friends wondered if Snow knew
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  Speaker 1: where the act ended and where her true self began.
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  Speaker 1: She was going method with it. Little too method with it.
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  Speaker 1: But no one really dared speak about it. Everybody kind
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  Speaker 1: of walked on eggshells around her because of her internet fame.
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  Speaker 1: And then the night of January 17th, 2021 would come around.
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  Speaker 1: And it started like any other casual night among friends.
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  Speaker 1: Helen and Marianne, along with a few other friends gathered
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  Speaker 1: at Snow's place, watching Gotham and sipping vodka with Dr. Pepper. Gross.
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  Speaker 1: And the show's dark, moody themes were a perfect backdrop
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  Speaker 1: to their shared love of sinister characters. And as the
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  Speaker 1: night wore on, the alcohol flowed more freely. And the
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  Speaker 1: group naturally became rowdier. And at some point, the conversation
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  Speaker 1: shifted to props. And Marianne, excited by the gun used
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  Speaker 1: in the show, mentioned that she had a real firearm.
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  Speaker 1: One that her ex-boyfriend had left behind. But the gun
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  Speaker 1: wasn't loaded. She assured her friends that he had removed
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  Speaker 1: the magazine. Not people's magazine or something like that. There's
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  Speaker 1: a thing that goes in the gun that has the
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  Speaker 1: bullets in it. She said it was removed. So there
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  Speaker 1: was no danger and no reason to worry. So Snow
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  Speaker 1: left the room and returned moments later with the gun
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  Speaker 1: in her hands. The others laughed nervously as Snow aimed
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  Speaker 1: it playfully at all of her friends. biggest no-no in
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  Speaker 1: the world. But she was mimicking the characters on the
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  Speaker 1: TV show. And Helen, always one for adventure, joked along.
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  Speaker 1: With the rest reportedly saying, ooh, do me next, do
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  Speaker 1: me next. Her words were filled with humor, the kind
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  Speaker 1: that made sense in the context of the night. Friends
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  Speaker 1: just playing pretend, just like in their cosplays. But the
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  Speaker 1: next moment wasn't pretend. Because when Snow pulled the trigger,
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  Speaker 1: a deafening crack would split the air. And the laughter
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  Speaker 1: would die immediately. A single bullet unseen, but very, very real,
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  Speaker 1: was chambered in the gun. And it struck Helen in
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  Speaker 1: the head and she would collapse to the floor immediately.
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  Speaker 1: And the room would turn into cold and shock. The
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  Speaker 1: laughter and joking dissipated in an instant and was replaced
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  Speaker 1: with sound of frantic shouts, hands trembling as they tried
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  Speaker 1: to stop the bleeding in Helen's head. Someone would actually
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  Speaker 1: grab a stuffed animal and try to stop the bleeding.
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  Speaker 1: But Unfortunately, it was futile. And as panic just swept
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  Speaker 1: the room, someone fumbled on their phone and dialed 911.
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  Speaker 1: Their voice barely audible through the sobs. And Marianne Snow
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  Speaker 1: just stood frozen, her face masked with disbelief. And she
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  Speaker 1: would say, I thought it wasn't loaded. And she just
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  Speaker 1: kept repeating this over and over as though the words
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  Speaker 1: could somehow undo what just happened. It just makes me sick.
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  Speaker 1: paramedics would arrive within minutes, rushing Helen to the hospital
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  Speaker 1: where she was placed on life support. And for two days,
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  Speaker 1: her family and friends held onto hope, praying for a miracle.
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  Speaker 1: But on January 19th, 2021, after doctors confirmed there was
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  Speaker 1: no chance of recovery, Helen was removed from life support
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  Speaker 1: and she was deceased. And in the weeks that followed,
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  Speaker 1: Marianne would be charged with manslaughter. And the prosecution argued
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: that Snow had acted recklessly, handling a deadly weapon under
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: the influence, without checking if it was truly safe, which
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: is 100% true and inacceptable and unacceptable. And Marianne's defense
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: was rooted in the idea that it was an accident
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: and it was a tragic mistake, which We all would
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: like to assume that that is the case, and I'm
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: sure it is. She had been told that the gun
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: was unloaded and she had no intention of harming her friend.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: And as a case unfolded, questions of negligence and responsibility
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: filled the courtroom. Could someone be held accountable for such
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: a horrific accident when they truly believed there was no danger?
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Where did the line between innocent mistake and criminal behavior fall?
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: And for her part, Marianne showed deep, deep remorse, cooperating
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: fully with the law enforcement. But the case was far
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: from simple. And as of the last reports, Snow had
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: not yet entered a formal plea. And the legal battle
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: ahead was murky, as it often is in cases of
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: accidental death. And in the aftermath of Helen's death, Marianne's
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: online persona came under intense scrutiny. Known for embodying dark,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: villainous characters or followers, now questioned at the line between
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Snow's real life and her cosplays had been blurred beyond recognition.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: She continued to post online, though, and her TikTok and
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Instagram pages were still active. But the content struck many
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: as inappropriate given the gravity of the situation, which is fair. Read.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: The room, pretty easy. Videos portraying violent themes and dark
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: humor that once felt like an extension of her cosplay
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: now seemed very chilling, raising ethical questions about the behavior
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: of influencers in the wake of tragedy. Like was she
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: grieving or hiding behind her online identity to avoid facing
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: reality of what happened? I don't know. And the cosplay
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: community was just like split in half after this happened.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Some members expressed sorrow standing by Snow, understanding that it
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: had been an accident and others were less forgiving, seeing
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: the accident as a failure of responsibility, which I mean,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: you know, it's both in my opinion. So Oliver Snow
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: has been free on Bond since the manslaughter charge. on
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: January 18th, 2021. And they were indicted by Harris County
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: grand jury on second degree murder felony manslaughter charge in April, 2021,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: and remained free on bail pending trial. And despite the
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: events that occurred, like I said, she remained active on
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: TikTok until they made their account private in response to
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: all the backlash in the cosplay community. And upon their
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: return to Instagram, cosplaying communities don't seem to take the
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: return too lightly there either. A lot of people are
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: seeing it as like disrespect. And Oliver Snow was allowed
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: to post bail and was ordered to stay in the
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: state afterwards. However, court records indicate that Oliver Snow violated
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: the terms of their bond throughout August of that year,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: missing a pre-trial date related to the case, violating curfew
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: and allowing the battery on the GPS tracking device on
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: her to die. Nevertheless, the influencer appears to have been
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: permitted to remain within the state. as they continue to
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: create online content, even after everything that happened. So yeah,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: that one is like a toss up. Like obviously it's,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, you'd hope that it, that it wasn't just
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: a horrible accident, but the way that they acted afterwards
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: was strange, I guess, but I don't know. Like everyone
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: acts different after, after tragedy. Some people just want to
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: go through their lives like, like nothing ever happened. Um,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: and everybody deals with it differently. So I'm not here to,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: to judge or anything like that. I'm just kind of
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: saying the story, but Yeah, that one's kind of still
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: up in the air, but that brings us to our
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: final one, which has been extremely recently. And that is
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Terryon Thomas, AKA Mr. Prada. So the night was too
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: quiet for a city like Baton Rouge, and yet the
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: sound of rubber soles dragging across a concrete floor echoed
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: in the dimly lit hallway of Terryon Thomas's apartment building.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: His hands, slick with sweat, struggled to grip the corners
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: of the heavy tarp that concealed the lifeless form inside.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: His breath came in short, frantic bursts. His eyes darted
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: to the stairwell, then back to the mess he had made.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: He hadn't planned for this. Not tonight, not like this.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: But nothing had gone according to plan since he became. Mr. Prada.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: So Terryon Thomas never set out to be famous, at
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: least not famous like this. Growing up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: he was just another young man with dreams of making
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: it out, of being seen, or of being somebody. His
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: family loved him, sure, but love wasn't enough to fill
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: the gnawing void inside of him, the same void that
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: pushed him to upload his first TikTok video. And the
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: platform was perfect for him, quick, effortless, and flashy. His
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: early content was simple, recreations of trending challenges, meme dances,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: and lip syncs. And his profile grew steadily, and so
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: did the praise. Tarion became Mr. Prada. The nickname, an
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: ironic twist, he had never owned anything from Prada, but
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: his online persona oozed a confidence that screamed luxury. And
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: it wasn't long before people started to recognize him on
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: the street, greeting him with laughter and inside jokes from
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: his videos. But as his follower count skyrocketed, so did
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: the pressure to keep producing. And the love was addictive,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: but fleeting as well. His new fans wanted more and
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: demanded more. One viral video wasn't enough. They wanted daily
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: doses of Mr. Prada. Fresh content, wittier jokes, edgier stunts.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: And when the content wasn't new enough, the trolls would
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: come out the f- just up the side of the bridge.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: And the turning point came when well-known TikToker called him
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: out for stealing his content. And the video went viral,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: more viral than any of his. And a side-by-side comparison
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: of one of Tarion's popular posts next to the original's
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: creator's work was mass spread. And it was bad. It
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: was literally the exact same. And Tarion tried to laugh
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: it off. Tried to act like it didn't matter. He
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: posted a video of himself looking smug, declaring, Mr. Prada, unbothered.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Y'all still watching me? And his fans laughed and the
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: views rolled in. But behind the scenes, the comments were
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: cutting deeper. Words like, fake, unoriginal, copycat flooded his notifications.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: And the memes mocking his work ethic spread faster than
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: his own videos. And with each hateful comment, something inside
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Tarion shifted. His once carefree smile turned into something darker
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: and something a lot more desperate. The fame he had
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: once craved now felt like a noose tightening around his neck.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: And in a last ditch effort to reinvent himself, he
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: posted increasingly erratic content. He shaved his head on camera,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: claimed he was done with TikTok, only to return hours later.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Then came the cryptic videos. Shots of his empty apartment,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: shadows flickering in the corners, and the infamous post would
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: later come back to haunt him. Practicing for my mugshot.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: His audience was amused by it, and no one really
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: took him seriously when they probably should have. So Tarion's
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: transformation was almost complete, though no one could have guessed
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: where he was headed. The lines between his TikTok persona
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: and his real life started to get blurred, the attention
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: both feeding and poisoning him. He wasn't Mr. Prada anymore,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: not even Tarion Thomas. He was a mess of insecurities, ego, anger,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: and barely held together by the flickering light of his
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: phone screen. So it was the evening of September 28th, 2024.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: And the air outside Tarion's apartment was thick with humidity,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: a suffocating weight that pressed against the windows. And inside,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: the lights flickered, casting eerie shadows that danced across the walls.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: And Tarion paced to the floor. the sound of his
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: footsteps quickening with each turn. And then there was a
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: knock at the door. William Nicholas Abraham had just arrived.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: What brought him there that night was a mystery, perhaps
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: an old grudge, perhaps something more sinister. Whatever the reason,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: William's presence in Tarion's apartment would soon take a deadly turn.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Tarion had grown increasingly paranoid in the weeks leading up
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: to the murder. Every glance from a stranger, every whisper
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: felt like a threat. His online persona had consumed him,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: and now, offline, he didn't know who he could trust.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: He had lost friends, distanced himself from family, and spent
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: more and more time locked in his apartment, where the
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: walls seemed to close in a little tighter each day.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: And William entered that night without a struggle. At first,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: their conversation was strained but civil. They talked about TikTok
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: and the pressures of maintaining a brand. But as the
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: night wore on, something shifted. Maybe it was the lingering tension,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: or maybe it was the way William looked at him,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: like he was just another washed-up TikToker waiting to be forgotten.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I've gotten that look before. But the details of the
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: murder remain fuzzy, obscured by Tarion's frantic, broken recollection. But
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: what is clear is that, in a fit of rage,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Tarion snapped. The apartment's walls bore witness to the struggle,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: bloodstains splattering across the stark white paint, and William's body
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: laid crumpled on the floor, lifeless. And the quiet that
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: followed was deafening. Tarion stood over William, his chest heaving,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: blood staining his hands, and his mind just raced, replaying
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: the scenes in slow motion in his head. But there
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: was really no making sense of it. And Tarion's next
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: moves were completely fueled by panic. He would drag William's
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: body across the floor, leaving a blood trail in his wake.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: And he grabbed a tarp where he found it, he
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: said he couldn't remember, and he tried to wrap the
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: body as fast as he could with his hands shaking.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: He had no plan, no strategy, only a desperate need
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: to do what needed to be done. And security footage
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: would later capture him dragging the body down the stairs.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: His movements were very erratic. as he was teetering on
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: the edge of collapse. He dumped the body into William's
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: car and drove off into the night, not knowing where
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: he was going, just knowing he had to get away.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: And news would break the next morning. TikTok star Mr.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Prada wanted for murder and social media exploded. Fans couldn't
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: believe some claimed it was a hoax and others were
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: quick to vilify him. And Tarion was already on the run,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: driving aimlessly through the city. His mind was a chaotic
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: mess of fear and delusion. And he switched cars somewhere
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: along the way, trying to cover his tracks, but it
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: was too late and the authorities were closing in. And
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Tarion's arrest in Dallas, Texas was swift and without drama.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: When the police found him, he was hunched over in
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: the front seat, eyes vacant and hands trembling. And the
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: man who had once basked in the limelight of TikTok
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: fame now looked hollow. And as they cuffed him, Tarion
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: didn't resist. He had nothing left to fight for. The fame,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: the followers, the views, none of it really mattered anymore.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: And his final viral moment would be his mugshot. And
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: the world would remember him as not Mr. Prada, but
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: as a killer. But let's talk about who Dr. Abraham is,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: because I think that is interesting and important as well.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: So Abraham, the person that Mr. Prada had murdered, was
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: a familiar face in Baton Rouge, having appeared on cable
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: television and was a mental health therapist. But there was
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: a former accusation of a patient. In 2015, Abraham was
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: accused of SA-ing an 11 year old boy during a
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: counseling session. WAFB reported, and the boy was allegedly so
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: upset after the session that he told his family he
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: never wanted to see Abraham again. And during the session
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: with a new counselor, the boy told his new counselor
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: about the alleged SA by Abraham. And Abraham was arrested
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: at the time and booked into the East Baton Rouge
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Parish Prison, where he was later released after posting bail
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: of $ 25, 000, as records show. However, prosecutors didn't bring the
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: case to trial. And it would be said, while there
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: was probable cause for an arrest, my office had to
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: determine if the evidence supported our burden at trial which
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: has proof beyond a reasonable doubt. District Attorney Hiller Moore
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: told WAFB. This matter was under review by my office
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: for approximately two years. After considering all the evidence, the
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: best interest of the child, and the lack of any
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: inculpatory statements by the arrestee, we declined to institute formal charges.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Ambo represented Abraham in the 2015 case and said Thomas
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: was not the alleged victim. in the case. It's unequivocally
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: not him, Ambo would tell WAFB. And the relationship between
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Thomas and Abraham, as well as a motive, are still
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: under investigation. Officials say that they do not believe Thomas
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: was an actual client of the victim, which is interesting.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Why would they meet up? They didn't know each other
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: at all. He went to his house. They had a
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: discussion of what seemed to be about his mental health,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: but he wasn't a client at all. So like, how
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: did they meet? Did Thomas know somebody that may have
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: been assayed by this person and acted out against that?
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Or was it just a freak incident? Like, I don't know.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of questions. And as of October 8th, 2024,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: charges have been upgraded against him. 20 year old Thomas
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: was originally charged with second degree murder and obstruction of
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: justice in the death of Dr. Nick Abraham, who was
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: 69 at the time. And the charge would be upgraded
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: to first degree murder under Louisiana law that allows the
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: more serious charge when the offender has the specific intent
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: to kill or inflict great bodily harm upon a victim
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: who is under the age of 12 or 65 years
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: age or older. What? who was under the age of
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: 12 or older, 65 years of age or older. Interesting.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: So that in between them, it's not? That's very strange.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: So if you're in between that, you're like second degree?
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: That's interesting. I don't understand that, but as what news
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: outlets reported. And the new charge makes the case eligible
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: for the death penalty in the event of an actual conviction.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: And should prosecutors decide to pursue that case strategy. And
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: as the world watched Terrians fall from grace, social media
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: was abuzz with hot takes and conspiracy theories. Some said
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: the fame had driven him mad, others claimed it was
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: all a setup, that Tehran was totally innocent, but in
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: the court of public opinion, he was already guilty. And
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: the TikTok persona he had so carefully crafted had become
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: his undoing. His rise had been meteoric, but his fall
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: was even swifter, leaving behind a trail of blood, lies,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: and broken dreams. So that is all we have on
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Tarion Thomas. Interested to see where that case goes and everything.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of questions. It's very strange, especially it's
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: like such a young age to just like snap like
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: that on supposedly someone you don't know. It's just like
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: not that common and to have no motive is so
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: strange as well. So I don't know. I'm interested to
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: hear more about the case, but I mean- Man, it's
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: a crazy world out there. Everybody gotta stay safe. And
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, keep your mental health in check. That is
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: the most important thing. That is the most important thing.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: If you're on TikTok, if you're on YouTube, if you're
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: on anything, just make sure to take a step back.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Go touch some grass, okay? Get off here or take
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: me with you outside. Go touch some grass, all right?
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: And have a snack. But I hope you enjoyed hearing
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: about all these cases. Very interesting. I think if you
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: have any other cases, let me know down below. I
• 33:07
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