Episode 5 - Are You Hiding Him?
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What happened after Daisy's friends revealed the suspected killer on social media?
The TikToks appeared on a Wednesday in late May. One of them began with the words, this is my friend Daisy. Maybe you can already picture it. The carnival ride, the neon colors, the high school graduation photo, and then the cut to photos of Victor. Each of the TikToks had slightly different music and different photos and videos, but all of them told the same story. Daisy's life mattered, and the person who took it was still running free. An Instagram post was published the same day, on a new account called Justice for Daisy. This post contained a slideshow of photos of Victor. A lot of them were taken from his own Instagram, In one of them, he wore a striped beanie. In another, a bowler hat.
Each of the photos showed off some identifying feature, gauged ears or a tattoo of what looked like big rats crawling up his ribcage. The text on the post was in all capital letters. If seen, please contact us. Wendy, Daisy's former neighbor, she saw this post while she was scrolling through her Instagram feed one night.
How did Daisy's community react to the TikTok and Instagram posts?
And then I started seeing the viral video that went on TikTok. And I was like, what? Like, it was him? I was like, oh my God.
Wendy knew who Victor was. She used to see him hanging around the apartment complex with Daisy.
It was shocking. It was very shocking because, like I said, we didn't know what was going on in the beginning. And then after that, well, at least I took that out of my head that it was, like, dangerous that we had to be watching our backs for somebody killing women or raping them out there and stuff. But I was just mad at the fact that this kid did something like that and he was thinking that he was going to be able to get away with it. It's like, how do you think you're going to get away with something like this? Like, you killed somebody. Like, you didn't just... hurt her that was like probably he got tired of hurting her where you know so now that he killed her that's what i was thinking i was thinking a lot of things but she desperately wanted to see victor held accountable for daisy's murder and so she used the tools at her disposal she went to instagram and shared the posts on tick tock she reposted and reposted and reposted and i would go back and see all the videos because they would always come up on the for you page the for you page
It's the homepage that shows this never-ending scroll of TikToks from people who you may or may not follow. They're all served up by this super secretive algorithm to fit each user's individual interests. And these TikToks must have showed up on a lot of people's For You pages. Because there were comments from people shouting out their locations. People as far away as Texas and Washington and even Canada. They commented as proof of how far the TikTok had spread. And no one knows exactly how the TikTok algorithm works, but there's this popular thinking around it, which is that the more comments a TikTok gets, the more often it'll appear on For You pages. So people kind of just kept commenting as a way to sort of show how much the TikTok had spread, but also to boost its visibility in other people's feeds. And it became this thing where people shouted out their locations all over Southern California. Southgate, Huntington Park, South Central, Long Beach, Riverside, San Diego.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What happened after Daisy's friends revealed the suspected killer on social media?
1:11–2:23
2
How did Daisy's community react to the TikTok and Instagram posts?
2:23–6:13
3
Why do some people trust TikTok more than traditional news for crime updates?
6:13–11:35
4
What are the challenges of seeking justice through social media and vigilante action?
11:35–12:33
5
Who is Valerie and what did she witness regarding Victor's sightings?
12:33–18:23
6
How does Valerie's experience highlight community distrust in law enforcement?
18:23–20:25
7
What was the outcome of Valerie's attempt to report a sighting to the detective?
20:25–24:51
8
What parallels are drawn between this case and other true crime stories?
24:51–36:39