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Shannen Rossmiller

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Darknet Diaries
145: Shannen

Each of them had U.S. visas, but each of them were from different countries. And they were all wearing male chastity belts. It was all very weird. Cops looked through the truck and found GPS, gadgets, laptops, phones, tracking devices, extra batteries, tons of cables, keyboards, monitors, mice, lots of high-tech gear.

Darknet Diaries
145: Shannen

Each of them had U.S. visas, but each of them were from different countries. And they were all wearing male chastity belts. It was all very weird. Cops looked through the truck and found GPS, gadgets, laptops, phones, tracking devices, extra batteries, tons of cables, keyboards, monitors, mice, lots of high-tech gear.

Darknet Diaries
145: Shannen

I think some antennas were in there, and there were also a few disassembled weapons in the truck. Yeah, like, all neatly packed in boxes. Shannon's like, okay, but what's any of this have to do with me, though? And the cop says the GPS in the truck was set to her home address, meaning they were likely on their way to her residence in Conrad when they crashed off the side of the road.

Darknet Diaries
145: Shannen

I think some antennas were in there, and there were also a few disassembled weapons in the truck. Yeah, like, all neatly packed in boxes. Shannon's like, okay, but what's any of this have to do with me, though? And the cop says the GPS in the truck was set to her home address, meaning they were likely on their way to her residence in Conrad when they crashed off the side of the road.

Darknet Diaries
145: Shannen

And they found her address and the courthouse address in one of their laptops. Of course, news like this is enough to make anyone's blood run cold. So instead of her heading home for the weekend as usual, Shannon's told to stay in Helena. The police offered to give her extra protection for a while. They offered to park a squad car outside her house for as long as she wants.

Darknet Diaries
145: Shannen

And they found her address and the courthouse address in one of their laptops. Of course, news like this is enough to make anyone's blood run cold. So instead of her heading home for the weekend as usual, Shannon's told to stay in Helena. The police offered to give her extra protection for a while. They offered to park a squad car outside her house for as long as she wants.

Darknet Diaries
145: Shannen

They didn't want to take any chances. Randy and the kids packed up and got out of town over to a family member's house so they could be safe. The cops questioned the men again. Now they were saying they were part of some traveling music show touring through Montana. The men were somehow let go or slipped away or something. It's not clear. But they vanished and were never seen from again.

Darknet Diaries
145: Shannen

They didn't want to take any chances. Randy and the kids packed up and got out of town over to a family member's house so they could be safe. The cops questioned the men again. Now they were saying they were part of some traveling music show touring through Montana. The men were somehow let go or slipped away or something. It's not clear. But they vanished and were never seen from again.

Darknet Diaries
145: Shannen

After the Reynolds case, Shannon kept doing her undercover work online. But at this point, it was much less intense. For one, she simply sent the FBI information much sooner and then trained them on how to take over the conversations and find these terrorists online just like she was. She wanted to remove herself from the evidence chain so she would no longer have to testify in court proceedings.

Darknet Diaries
145: Shannen

After the Reynolds case, Shannon kept doing her undercover work online. But at this point, it was much less intense. For one, she simply sent the FBI information much sooner and then trained them on how to take over the conversations and find these terrorists online just like she was. She wanted to remove herself from the evidence chain so she would no longer have to testify in court proceedings.

Darknet Diaries
145: Shannen

And it worked. She didn't have any more cases that she needed to appear in, and the FBI was able to thwart more terrorist plots.

Darknet Diaries
145: Shannen

And it worked. She didn't have any more cases that she needed to appear in, and the FBI was able to thwart more terrorist plots.

Darknet Diaries
145: Shannen

I've created 32 actual over the years primary characters identities online that at different times I'll spawn off other sub identities in order to continue with making the whole appearance of who I am, what I say I'm doing a little more real as it is in the whole virtual context that the internet provides.

Darknet Diaries
145: Shannen

I've created 32 actual over the years primary characters identities online that at different times I'll spawn off other sub identities in order to continue with making the whole appearance of who I am, what I say I'm doing a little more real as it is in the whole virtual context that the internet provides.

Darknet Diaries
145: Shannen

Those identities have led to different prosecutions, but the interesting thing was the two individuals that were prosecuted here in the United States, the two high-profile cases, they were the result of those individuals stumbling into the Arabic forums, looking to make contact with al-Qaeda and Thankfully, I guess it was me that they were, that they, you know, they grabbed onto.

Darknet Diaries
145: Shannen

Those identities have led to different prosecutions, but the interesting thing was the two individuals that were prosecuted here in the United States, the two high-profile cases, they were the result of those individuals stumbling into the Arabic forums, looking to make contact with al-Qaeda and Thankfully, I guess it was me that they were, that they, you know, they grabbed onto.

Darknet Diaries
145: Shannen

And I was able to rein them in and keep control of them up until, you know, the cases were turned over to the FBI.

Darknet Diaries
145: Shannen

And I was able to rein them in and keep control of them up until, you know, the cases were turned over to the FBI.

Darknet Diaries
145: Shannen

In 2006, Shanna received the Middle East Forum American Hero Award. In March 2009, she was honored with the Congressional Medal of Honor Society's Above and Beyond Citizen Award from Montana. Sadly, Shannon died in November 2020. She had Graves' disease, which meant she had an overproduction of the thyroid hormone, and it caused all kinds of health problems. She was 50 years old.

Darknet Diaries
145: Shannen

In 2006, Shanna received the Middle East Forum American Hero Award. In March 2009, she was honored with the Congressional Medal of Honor Society's Above and Beyond Citizen Award from Montana. Sadly, Shannon died in November 2020. She had Graves' disease, which meant she had an overproduction of the thyroid hormone, and it caused all kinds of health problems. She was 50 years old.