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Tom Simon

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3893 total appearances

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Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
FBI Agent Reveals Bizarre Stories Behind Famous Fraud Cases | Tom Simon

Friends who meet via the internet and all that.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
FBI Agent Reveals Bizarre Stories Behind Famous Fraud Cases | Tom Simon

It's able to catapult people who want to be in media, who don't need to play the game and stuff like that, but you can kind of raise your own pirate ship flag and have something like this happening.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
FBI Agent Reveals Bizarre Stories Behind Famous Fraud Cases | Tom Simon

The internet, I think, on balance, a good thing.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
FBI Agent Reveals Bizarre Stories Behind Famous Fraud Cases | Tom Simon

But the internet has very dark corners of people who are doing depraved and horrible things on the internet.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
FBI Agent Reveals Bizarre Stories Behind Famous Fraud Cases | Tom Simon

You ever heard of the phenomenon of animal crush videos?

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
FBI Agent Reveals Bizarre Stories Behind Famous Fraud Cases | Tom Simon

No.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
FBI Agent Reveals Bizarre Stories Behind Famous Fraud Cases | Tom Simon

It's as bad as it sounds.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
FBI Agent Reveals Bizarre Stories Behind Famous Fraud Cases | Tom Simon

Basically crushing animals under your boot and filming it and then trading those videos and engaging in those videos.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
FBI Agent Reveals Bizarre Stories Behind Famous Fraud Cases | Tom Simon

It's terrible, terrible.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
FBI Agent Reveals Bizarre Stories Behind Famous Fraud Cases | Tom Simon

What's wrong with people?

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
FBI Agent Reveals Bizarre Stories Behind Famous Fraud Cases | Tom Simon

People are terrible.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
FBI Agent Reveals Bizarre Stories Behind Famous Fraud Cases | Tom Simon

People are terrible.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
FBI Agent Reveals Bizarre Stories Behind Famous Fraud Cases | Tom Simon

And in 2010, the U.S.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
FBI Agent Reveals Bizarre Stories Behind Famous Fraud Cases | Tom Simon

Congress made the creation of animal crush videos a federal crime.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
FBI Agent Reveals Bizarre Stories Behind Famous Fraud Cases | Tom Simon

And President Obama signed that into law.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
FBI Agent Reveals Bizarre Stories Behind Famous Fraud Cases | Tom Simon

And so it's an actual federal crime now to be involved in animal crush videos.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
FBI Agent Reveals Bizarre Stories Behind Famous Fraud Cases | Tom Simon

Rod Bedra, maybe it's Bedra, B-E-D-R-A, was a technology teacher at Lyndon McKinley High School in Columbus, Ohio.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
FBI Agent Reveals Bizarre Stories Behind Famous Fraud Cases | Tom Simon

And he had a secret life that his family, his friends, his students, and his administrators did not know existed.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
FBI Agent Reveals Bizarre Stories Behind Famous Fraud Cases | Tom Simon

He was a moderator on a secret online group of men on Telegram, where all roads lead to if you're interested in online crime.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
FBI Agent Reveals Bizarre Stories Behind Famous Fraud Cases | Tom Simon

Telegram as a texting app is benign, but the groups on Telegram are just disgusting.