Chapter 4

...It's what's trending now...

...the horrific story of celebrity superstar Katherine Robertson, who had gone missing just four days ago...

...a live streaming video that surfaced on her Twitter page, posted under her account...

...good morning London, we are live from the BBC...

...a video we cannot show due to the disturbing nature of its content...


...today's top story is...

...over ten million views and hundreds of thousands more downloads before authorities were able to remove the video link...

...the video, almost too disturbing to discuss on live television, but involved somehow coercing the twelve year old girl to strip and perform heinous sex acts...

...And you know what, Bill? Here's what I think. I mean I personally stopped watching the video within the few minutes, it was just so terrible. I had to hear it from other people what actually happened later, and even then, I felt like vomiting. I mean it was that disturbing. How did the authorities let this video stay online for so long? How come Twitter let this happen? Why is this monster who is clearly blackmailing her still running around free? Where are our police, and why are they so incompetent? I mean, I'm angry. A lot of things went wrong here people, we have a lot of people we need to be pointing fingers at...

...we have with us chief director of the FBI's cybercrimes department Mr. Jeff Brigby to join us for discussion...

...authorities are scrambling to remove all links to the video, which has reportedly been downloaded, retweeted, and re-posted in various website, the links seemingly too extensive to fully eradicate...

...a whole community of Twitter followers denouncing the video as it was being streamed live...

...my question is this: if this video is so disgusting, so morally
reprehensible, and so disturbing, why were there eight hundred thousand downloads while it was streaming? Morbid curiosity? Maybe. But why then hundreds more links being generated all around the web? Why is this video so hard to get rid of? Federal police are reporting that dozens of underground sites, not just in the deep web, are still offering free downloads of the video...

...words like 'disgusting, abhorrent, reprehensible,' used to describe the video on Twitter as it streamed live...

...an unprecedented tragedy, not just in what happened, but in how powerless we are to prevent the spread of that awful, and not to mention, illegal video...

...we need to make it a crime to download. That's what we need to do. And we need to find the monster that did this, and we need to bring him to justice...

...police still unable to locate Katherine, or find any clues as to
where she is...

...why was there even a download counter? The whole thing behind this is just gut-wrenchingly creepy...

...that's eight hundred thousand people and counting, Melissa. You're going to put all those people behind bars? I don't even think that's possible...

...if you have information at all that could help lead to the rescue of Katherine Robertson, please call this toll free number below...