This Entitled Teen is in BIG Trouble // The Isabelle Valdez Murder Plot
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Earlier this year, a video went viral of two teen girls in the back of a police car, and they are expressing no remorse for the crime they just committed. So how did they get here? Well, the story starts with this girl, Isabel. And Isabel is only 15 during this time and she's living in Altamont Springs, Florida. And Isabel, she seems to be obsessed with mass killers. She's part of a true crime community on Discord where she spends a lot of time discussing and reading about these evil people. And at some point during all this, she becomes obsessed with this mass killer, Adam Lanza. Adam Lanza is the 20-year-old guy who carried out the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting back in 2012. And over time, Isabel becomes fascinated with this guy.
She starts believing that she and him are soulmates and that somehow they're meant to end up together, even though he's dead. And if that's not crazy enough, sometimes she hears voices in her head and she feels like it's Adam talking to her. Then one day in 2026, Isabel is at school having a normal day.
How did Isabelle Valdez’s online true-crime obsession begin and escalate?
And that is when she notices this other student. His name hasn't been released, so we'll just call him Classmate. And Isabelle thinks Classmate looks a lot like Adam Lanza. And from that moment on, she can't get him out of her head. She starts stalking Classmate, she memorizes his class schedule, she follows him around school, secretly taking pictures of him. And during all this, she stops hearing Adam's voice in her head, and she starts hearing new voices. And these new voices tell her that Classmate is her chance to finally reunite with Adam. All she has to do is kill him and drink his blood. Then she'll form some kind of spiritual blood bond with Adam, and that will somehow bring him back from the dead, I guess.
And these voices keep repeating these instructions over and over and over again. And before long, Isabel starts believing that it's actually possible for this mass killer to rise from the grave. So she goes and she tells her best friend. Her best friend is this girl, Lois. Lois is also part of the same online true crime community, and she's also very into mass killers as well. And Isabelle tells her about her plan to kill Classmate and bring Adam Lanza back from the dead, and Lois agrees to help her, and together they map it all out. So I guess during class one day, they're gonna lure classmate into the school restroom, and then they'll stab him, and they'll perform some sort of blood ritual on him, and that will somehow resurrect Adam.
So the plan is all set. And I guess Isabelle is so excited about this murder that they're going to commit that she seems to have no filter. She gets on Discord and she posts about it in the chat about what they're about to do. And she also goes and she tells another student, I guess she's like, we're going to kill classmate tomorrow. And at some point during this conversation, this student realizes Isabelle isn't joking.
Why did Isabelle fixate on Adam Lanza and claim he spoke to her?
And this totally freaks the student out. Now, I guess in Florida, there's like an app that students can use to anonymously report school safety issues. And this definitely sounds like a school safety issue. So later that night, the student reports Isabel and he claims that she's actively planning on harming classmate. Meanwhile, Lois, she seems to be all excited about it, too. Like, she gets really into it, and she starts making all these drawings of Classmate, and some of them are graphic and disturbing. Some of them, he's not alive. Then, the next day comes. The day they plan to kill Classmate. And it's early in the day before classes start, and Isabelle and Lois, they meet up in the school restroom.
And Isabelle, she brought a big knife to use, a 12-inch blade. But they're worried it won't be sharp enough, so Lois sharpens it for her. After that, they head back to class, waiting for their opportunity during second period to lure classmate into that restroom. While they're waiting, while class is still going on, Isabel decides to write a sort of manifesto to her parents.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:10
2
How did Isabelle Valdez’s online true-crime obsession begin and escalate?
1:10–3:12
3
Why did Isabelle fixate on Adam Lanza and claim he spoke to her?
3:12–6:06
4
When did Isabelle start stalking the unidentified classmate and what behaviors did she exhibit?
6:06–8:01
Speakers
1 identifiedMore from Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
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