Dr. Tristan Ingalls
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4,386 appearances
21 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 31 Aug
Dr. Tristan Ingalls’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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By claiming Lucy had willingly joined a cult, he's planting an alternative explanation for her disappearance before anyone else has one.
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Investigators often have to consider multiple possibilities early in a case, even unlikely ones, and in that sense he's attempting to anchor the story from the very beginning.
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Another possibility is that he's trying to control the narrative after the crime, just as we've seen him repeatedly try to control other people's perceptions throughout his life.
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What's also interesting is that he didn't stay silent again.
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Just like Carita's family, silence would have left Luis to draw her own conclusions.
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But calling her directly, he's attempting to influence those conclusions before anyone else can.
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And the choice of a cult is particularly interesting because it suggests that it's something voluntary when what happened to Lucy.
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Was anything but voluntary.
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It also provides an explanation for why someone would suddenly disappear and stop contacting the people who loved her.
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Cult members are isolated from family and friends, making the story just plausible enough to be a reasonable consideration.
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But notice how that changes the conversation, though.
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Instead of everyone asking what happened to her, people are going to start asking, well, why would she do that?
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It shifts the focus from his actions or what they would suspect or what might have happened to her to her choices.
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And again, there's victim blaming and victim shaming occurring.
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I mean, given what we know about his need to shape perceptions, control seems very likely.
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I mean, the phone call wasn't necessary, which means there's another reason for why he made it.
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Not just in Lucy's case, but Carita's too.
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And as for whether he got a thrill.
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That's harder to say.
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Some offenders do experience a thrill from deceiving others or manipulating an investigation, but I don't know that that is the case with Joji.
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