Ryan Montgomery

But I knew that if I downloaded this database, I cannot include images, videos, any attachments.

Because when I go to deliver this to law enforcement...

I don't want to get wrapped up in anything like that.

The last thing I need is somebody Google searching Ryan Montgomery and then something like that horrible comes up, you know?

So I thought about that even back then.

And I wrote a script to extract the database and the first user, and exclude all that stuff, the first user in that database was a politician in Virginia named Nathan Larson.

And he's a little bit of a whack job politician, but he was running for Congress

As a libertarian.

I believe so.

I believe so.

Yeah, so Nathan Larson was running this website.

Never heard of him before at that time.

And I start to export the database.

There's 7,000 total people in this database across four different backups that were on the server.

It was just a combination of a ton of users.

So...

This is my beginning.

I go from not knowing anything about this at all to now I got a database of 7,000 pedophiles and I want to do something with it.

So I reach out to my attorney first, actually, I believe it was, but I reached out to him who reached out to the task force in the local, like the Palm Beach County task force, I think it was, or Broward, one or the other.

Um, and then ic3.gov, uh, national center for missing, uh, Nick Mick national center for missing and exploited children.