Stephanie Soo

The forensic stuff, the digital data is really tough for everyone to wrap their heads around.

Like I said, even I have to go through some fancy gymnastics to counter everything.

So it needs some story around where phones came from, where gift cards came from, whatever that may be.

You don't have to tell me anything here.

I realize that you can't say things on this line.

So that's going to be how that is.

But I figured I would tell you that I'm not sure if you're going to get to talk to mom and dad again before they move you down into the purgatory spot.

And then you're going to be there for a month and...

My main concern right now is mom and dad are on the brink of financial ruin and bankruptcy.

They took out probably about $120,000 to $150,000 to pay legal fees and none of that has been repaid to them.

Daniel's brother keeps telling him and Daniel keeps, the brother is like, you keep complaining and being emotional about things with the parents and the parents don't have resources and they become emotional because you're emotional.

So they take out loans and they're about to get bankrupt and they're about to lose their car and lose everything.

And he's like, things like taking the kids out of Colorado because they're not safe.

That's going to be $100,000 in legal fees that we don't have the money for and it's not going to work.

So just drop it.

He's like, don't even talk to mom and dad about it because they're going to want to pull out a loan.

They're going to want to try and help you.

But I'm telling you, it's never going to happen no matter how much money you throw at it.

There's also another moment in this very jail call, which I didn't want to interpret.

But the brother, he says like, see, and I don't know if I'm dense and I'm dumb or something, but he says something along the lines of like,