Jennifer Swann
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Podcast Appearances
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And it's funny because I so I found him because he had been posting on Reddit, basically archiving the entirety of the discord chat.
Yeah, he thought it was going to disappear because he was noticing that people were deleting messages in the chat, and he thought that people were deleting it because it was incriminating.
And so he downloaded all of it, uploaded it onto the internet archive, basically, and was like, hey, everyone, here's the file.
Of course, a lot of people were like, I don't actually know how to access this because it's HTML files and it's super huge.
But it's funny because I was talking to him and being like, oh, what's your background?
He's like, yeah, I work with a lot of private detectives.
And then an hour into our phone call, I was like, oh, so yeah, who else are you working with?
And he's like, oh, well, I'm 16.
So yeah, I'm not really a detective.
And I was like, oh, OK, cool.
I'm glad he felt comfortable enough to just be like, yeah, I'm a kid.
But he definitely was playing it off as if that was his full-time job, was a detective.
He was cosplaying as a detective.
And I will say too, a lot of this was collaborative work where he posted it, someone else made it accessible and viewable on a website.
So it was interesting to see people really working together to try, who really believed in we want to see justice for this girl.
So some of the clues that he saw in the Discord, I think he was hanging out with a friend and the friend would just type into the search bar in Discord, Celeste, just her first name.
And I think they were astounded at how easy it was to find