1 00:00:04,743 --> 00:00:07,268 - She met Marysa on the Internet. 2 00:00:07,311 --> 00:00:09,052 M.K. said that she was in love with her. 3 00:00:09,096 --> 00:00:11,489 Marysa came to pick her up from school. 4 00:00:12,229 --> 00:00:16,190 And there was an adult man with her. 5 00:00:17,756 --> 00:00:21,021 He offered M.K. a spot on the documentary. 6 00:00:21,064 --> 00:00:22,674 You'll get $20 million dollars. 7 00:00:23,719 --> 00:00:27,375 - She had no idea she was going there to have sex with a man. 8 00:00:28,028 --> 00:00:30,291 - He was making a documentary on prostitution. 9 00:00:30,943 --> 00:00:34,164 There's so much manipulation and emotional abuse. 10 00:00:34,208 --> 00:00:36,906 - She has had these horrible images of her 11 00:00:36,949 --> 00:00:38,255 being posted online. 12 00:00:40,214 --> 00:00:42,912 - There were other victims in her same situation 13 00:00:42,955 --> 00:00:44,435 that were in other states. 14 00:00:44,783 --> 00:00:50,311 At the apartment we collected nearly 700 hotel key cards. 15 00:00:51,181 --> 00:00:53,531 - We found child pornography. 16 00:00:53,575 --> 00:00:57,535 - It's like watching the work of a demon walking on the earth. 17 00:00:57,927 --> 00:00:59,450 - Is he reaching out to victims? 18 00:00:59,494 --> 00:01:00,451 Where is he? 19 00:01:05,021 --> 00:01:08,068 [narrator]: In the FBI, we make a lot of headlines. 20 00:01:11,375 --> 00:01:14,117 Drug busts, mob stings. 21 00:01:15,684 --> 00:01:16,902 Terrorist takedowns. 22 00:01:16,946 --> 00:01:18,687 [people shouting] 23 00:01:18,730 --> 00:01:21,994 We understand why people want to tell stories about us. 24 00:01:22,038 --> 00:01:23,387 - Mark it. - Freeze! 25 00:01:23,431 --> 00:01:24,519 - FBI. 26 00:01:24,562 --> 00:01:26,042 - FBI! [man in the distance]: Action! 27 00:01:26,086 --> 00:01:27,696 [narrator]: But they don't know the half of it. 28 00:01:29,698 --> 00:01:31,047 What really goes down? 29 00:01:32,179 --> 00:01:33,919 We save that for each other, 30 00:01:33,963 --> 00:01:36,051 when we're talking agent to agent. 31 00:01:39,229 --> 00:01:42,014 This is FBI. True. 32 00:01:54,375 --> 00:01:57,247 [cars honking] 33 00:01:57,291 --> 00:02:01,121 - So, Ingrid, tell me about this phone call that you get. 34 00:02:01,164 --> 00:02:04,994 [narrator]: Kristy Kottis is a 24-year veteran of the FBI. 35 00:02:05,037 --> 00:02:10,695 she worked gangs, crimes against children, as well as human and drug trafficking. 36 00:02:11,566 --> 00:02:15,744 - I get a phone call from Natalie at one of our partner 37 00:02:15,787 --> 00:02:17,746 police stations outside of Seattle. 38 00:02:17,789 --> 00:02:19,965 [narrator]: Ingrid Arbuthnot-Stohl has been 39 00:02:20,009 --> 00:02:22,359 an FBI special agent since 2010. 40 00:02:22,925 --> 00:02:25,406 She investigates sexual exploitation 41 00:02:25,449 --> 00:02:28,626 and the trafficking of juvenils and adult women. 42 00:02:28,670 --> 00:02:31,194 - I'm thinking: "okay ... let's see what you got." 43 00:02:31,238 --> 00:02:34,632 - I was working as a detective with the Redmond Police Department. 44 00:02:35,459 --> 00:02:37,505 [narrator]: After working as a patrol officer, 45 00:02:37,548 --> 00:02:40,638 Natalie D'amico rose to the rank of detective, 46 00:02:40,682 --> 00:02:45,121 focusing on sexual assault cases and crimes against children. 47 00:02:45,165 --> 00:02:50,082 - Natalie starts telling me this story about a girl we're calling M.K. 48 00:02:52,259 --> 00:02:55,697 This girl just came in to file a complaint about harassment. 49 00:02:55,740 --> 00:02:57,481 - She came to the police department. 50 00:02:57,525 --> 00:02:59,875 - By herself? - She came with her mom. 51 00:02:59,918 --> 00:03:02,356 - She is 18 years old. 52 00:03:02,965 --> 00:03:04,619 M.K. wanted to meet friends. 53 00:03:04,662 --> 00:03:06,011 She was lonely. 54 00:03:06,055 --> 00:03:08,188 She met Marysa on the Internet. 55 00:03:24,552 --> 00:03:28,599 - After some time online, they built a relationship. 56 00:03:28,643 --> 00:03:30,558 M.K. said that she was in love with her. 57 00:03:38,043 --> 00:03:39,305 - They decided to meet in person. 58 00:03:39,349 --> 00:03:42,613 And at the time, M.K. was in high school. 59 00:03:43,353 --> 00:03:46,965 And Marysa came to pick her up from school. 60 00:03:47,749 --> 00:03:51,579 And little did M.K. know there was an adult man 61 00:03:51,622 --> 00:03:57,280 with her, who Marysa introduced as her boyfriend, David DeLay. 62 00:03:59,456 --> 00:04:01,850 "This is my boyfriend. I live with him. 63 00:04:01,893 --> 00:04:03,112 He takes care of me." 64 00:04:03,155 --> 00:04:04,983 Now her girlfriend has a boyfriend. 65 00:04:05,462 --> 00:04:07,986 M.K. was initially probably caught off guard. 66 00:04:08,030 --> 00:04:10,293 M.K. and Marysa are around the same age. 67 00:04:10,337 --> 00:04:12,208 And then you have this man 68 00:04:12,252 --> 00:04:14,689 who's about 30 years older than them. 69 00:04:14,732 --> 00:04:17,039 And I think David at the time was like 48. 70 00:04:18,082 --> 00:04:20,956 Marysa introduces David as a movie producer. 71 00:04:21,391 --> 00:04:24,568 - Movies I've always, always liked movies. 72 00:04:24,612 --> 00:04:27,005 [rock music] 73 00:04:32,750 --> 00:04:35,057 - There is some intrigue with a movie producer? 74 00:04:35,100 --> 00:04:37,320 I mean, that sounds pretty cool, especially if you're 75 00:04:37,364 --> 00:04:40,105 a teenager in high school. - So we have a situation 76 00:04:40,149 --> 00:04:42,107 where M.K. feels like she has no choice, if she wants 77 00:04:42,151 --> 00:04:44,806 to be with Marysa, she's got to also accept the old man? 78 00:04:44,849 --> 00:04:46,024 - Correct. 79 00:04:46,068 --> 00:04:47,417 She was living at home when she met them. 80 00:04:47,461 --> 00:04:49,114 She eventually moved in with them. 81 00:04:50,464 --> 00:04:51,378 She was 18. 82 00:04:51,421 --> 00:04:52,901 Just graduated. 83 00:04:52,944 --> 00:04:54,816 I mean, you're an adult. If you decide to go live with 84 00:04:54,859 --> 00:04:57,471 someone else, you can do so. 85 00:04:57,514 --> 00:05:00,387 David says he's filming a documentary for HBO. 86 00:05:00,430 --> 00:05:04,782 He had a photo of him outside of a sign that said HBO. 87 00:05:06,131 --> 00:05:08,656 "Oh, hey, look, I'm here for a meeting with HBO." 88 00:05:08,699 --> 00:05:11,354 He offered M.K. a spot on the documentary. 89 00:05:11,398 --> 00:05:12,747 - And what kind of work was she doing? 90 00:05:12,790 --> 00:05:14,270 - She was doing prostitution. 91 00:05:14,314 --> 00:05:16,794 Because he was making a documentary on prostitution. 92 00:05:16,838 --> 00:05:19,406 - His concept was, she would go 93 00:05:19,449 --> 00:05:22,931 engage in an act of prostitution, and then, 94 00:05:22,974 --> 00:05:25,629 after that, he would sit down and film her 95 00:05:25,673 --> 00:05:29,329 and discuss her experience with prostitution. 96 00:05:41,819 --> 00:05:43,604 - I think she was doing the documentary 97 00:05:43,647 --> 00:05:45,388 because it was important to Reese. 98 00:05:45,432 --> 00:05:47,390 - David had her sign a contract. 99 00:05:47,433 --> 00:05:49,044 - And what'd that contract look like? 100 00:05:49,087 --> 00:05:53,918 - A bunch of legal jargon that no 18-year old would understand. 101 00:06:05,582 --> 00:06:08,324 - M.K. believed she was going to get $20 million dollars? 102 00:06:08,368 --> 00:06:11,458 - I think part of this was her age. 103 00:06:11,501 --> 00:06:12,850 - Okay. 104 00:06:12,894 --> 00:06:14,939 - And she was a teenager. 105 00:06:14,983 --> 00:06:16,593 She was developmentally delayed. 106 00:06:16,637 --> 00:06:18,682 So for her, it was very believable. 107 00:06:18,726 --> 00:06:20,249 - Right. - Her first encounter, 108 00:06:20,292 --> 00:06:22,773 she wasn't even expecting it. 109 00:06:22,817 --> 00:06:25,428 - She wasn't told she was going to work as an escort. 110 00:06:25,472 --> 00:06:27,474 I don't think she even knew what that meant. 111 00:06:27,517 --> 00:06:30,955 They just put her in a hotel room and Reese said: 112 00:06:30,999 --> 00:06:35,438 "okay, well, someone's going to come in and I'll be back later." 113 00:06:35,482 --> 00:06:37,962 And she was very confused about this. 114 00:06:38,006 --> 00:06:40,138 And this man came in. 115 00:06:40,182 --> 00:06:43,664 She had no idea she was going there to have sex with a man. 116 00:06:43,707 --> 00:06:47,668 And let's keep in mind, she, you know, had feelings for Reese. 117 00:06:47,711 --> 00:06:49,452 She was in love with Reese, with a female. 118 00:06:49,496 --> 00:06:53,195 She's left feeling traumatized. - Without question. 119 00:06:53,238 --> 00:06:55,240 I can't imagine. - Reese follows back up 120 00:06:55,284 --> 00:06:56,590 and collects the money. 121 00:06:56,633 --> 00:06:59,506 The contract listed out a lot of different stuff 122 00:06:59,549 --> 00:07:02,247 as far as you're going to make this much per month 123 00:07:02,291 --> 00:07:06,164 while working, escorting, and you're going to give me, 124 00:07:06,208 --> 00:07:07,470 you know, a set amount. 125 00:07:07,514 --> 00:07:10,430 It was 12 to $1800 a month in production fees. 126 00:07:10,473 --> 00:07:12,736 - Production fees? - Yes. 127 00:07:12,780 --> 00:07:15,652 - So his framing was, he's a pimp. 128 00:07:15,696 --> 00:07:17,741 He makes the appointments. - No, no. 129 00:07:17,785 --> 00:07:19,221 He did not frame he was a pimp. 130 00:07:19,264 --> 00:07:20,701 He was a producer. 131 00:07:20,744 --> 00:07:23,660 But everything he was doing was fulfilling 132 00:07:23,704 --> 00:07:25,575 what a pimp actually does. 133 00:07:25,619 --> 00:07:29,666 It's starting to very much look like human trafficking. 134 00:07:30,580 --> 00:07:34,758 M.K. was especially vulnerable. 135 00:07:34,802 --> 00:07:37,413 And they really relied upon her. 136 00:07:37,457 --> 00:07:40,721 So they were always trying to convince her to get them more 137 00:07:40,764 --> 00:07:41,635 and more and more money. 138 00:07:45,726 --> 00:07:49,294 - And how many times was she engaged in um-- - Numerous. 139 00:07:49,338 --> 00:07:51,732 - She lost count. It's very typical 140 00:07:51,775 --> 00:07:54,038 in pimping cases, you don't feel like you have an option. 141 00:07:54,082 --> 00:07:56,737 - They had her passwords to everything. 142 00:07:56,780 --> 00:07:58,347 Her phone number got changed. 143 00:07:58,390 --> 00:08:01,785 - Reese just constantly berating her. 144 00:08:01,829 --> 00:08:03,657 She physically abused her. 145 00:08:03,700 --> 00:08:06,964 David was constantly telling her: "No one cares about you. 146 00:08:07,008 --> 00:08:07,878 We care about you." 147 00:08:08,488 --> 00:08:11,012 - There's so much manipulation and emotional abuse 148 00:08:12,230 --> 00:08:14,189 that kept her from leaving. 149 00:08:14,232 --> 00:08:16,017 - She felt like she didn't have a place to go. 150 00:08:16,496 --> 00:08:20,021 She just hit a breaking point and she was like: 151 00:08:20,064 --> 00:08:22,589 "I need to get out of here." She finally took the chance 152 00:08:22,632 --> 00:08:23,503 and called her mom. 153 00:08:38,953 --> 00:08:41,607 - Do we know how David and Reese felt when they got home 154 00:08:41,650 --> 00:08:45,350 and she was gone? - Just enraged about it. 155 00:08:45,394 --> 00:08:48,266 They were texting her nonstop, Reese and David, 156 00:08:48,310 --> 00:08:49,093 like: "you need to come back", 157 00:08:49,137 --> 00:08:49,877 "What are you doing?" 158 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:51,226 David was blaming Reese. 159 00:08:51,269 --> 00:08:53,010 And David's like: "You need to go fix this. 160 00:08:53,054 --> 00:08:54,098 You need to fix it now." 161 00:08:54,142 --> 00:08:56,187 And Reese started threatening M.K. 162 00:08:56,753 --> 00:08:58,842 [riveting music] 163 00:09:03,499 --> 00:09:05,632 We're going to post all these things on your Facebook account 164 00:09:05,675 --> 00:09:06,546 if you don't come back. 165 00:09:10,680 --> 00:09:13,117 She has had these horrible images of her 166 00:09:13,161 --> 00:09:14,815 being posted on her Facebook account. 167 00:09:14,858 --> 00:09:18,079 - They're of M.K. in provocative positions, 168 00:09:18,122 --> 00:09:21,082 some of which she had no clothing on. 169 00:09:21,125 --> 00:09:23,084 She can't get back into it because Reese changed her 170 00:09:23,127 --> 00:09:25,608 password, so they're in full control of her account. 171 00:09:26,696 --> 00:09:29,612 - One Facebook post said: "I'm 18 and I can express 172 00:09:29,656 --> 00:09:30,787 myself, however I want" 173 00:09:31,571 --> 00:09:35,836 Another said: "I'm starting my own business in the adult industry." 174 00:09:35,879 --> 00:09:37,925 All of her friends and family can see this. 175 00:09:37,968 --> 00:09:40,405 And she's horrified by it. - Oh yeah, I can't imagine. 176 00:09:52,113 --> 00:09:55,899 - M.K told me that David had flown her to places. 177 00:09:56,726 --> 00:09:58,641 She traveled with them to different states. 178 00:09:58,685 --> 00:09:59,860 Interstate. 179 00:09:59,903 --> 00:10:01,426 Crossed the state lines. 180 00:10:01,470 --> 00:10:03,080 [Kristy]: So, Ingrid, what are you thinking? 181 00:10:03,124 --> 00:10:06,780 - You bring in the interstate travel and now you're starting 182 00:10:06,823 --> 00:10:08,216 to get into the federal nexus. 183 00:10:08,259 --> 00:10:09,347 - You realize this is serious. 184 00:10:09,391 --> 00:10:10,697 [Ingrid]: Yes. 185 00:10:10,740 --> 00:10:12,960 - I knew it was much bigger than what one detective 186 00:10:13,003 --> 00:10:15,005 at Redmond Police Department could do. 187 00:10:15,049 --> 00:10:18,313 Based upon what M.K. told me, I learned that there were 188 00:10:18,356 --> 00:10:21,621 other victims in her same situation. 189 00:10:26,190 --> 00:10:27,539 - We open a full investigation, 190 00:10:27,583 --> 00:10:29,541 which gives us broader authority. 191 00:10:29,585 --> 00:10:32,153 I needed to focus on the digital evidence. 192 00:10:32,196 --> 00:10:36,984 Natalie even started showing me printouts of ads 193 00:10:37,027 --> 00:10:39,769 that she'd found. - These escort ads popped up 194 00:10:39,813 --> 00:10:42,293 when I'd image-searched M.K.'s Facebook photos. 195 00:10:44,861 --> 00:10:46,994 - She'd gone on to Backpage. 196 00:10:47,037 --> 00:10:50,606 It's basically a hub for posting prostitution ads. 197 00:10:50,650 --> 00:10:53,653 [suspenseful music] 198 00:10:59,006 --> 00:11:00,703 - So, the phone numbers M.K. 199 00:11:00,747 --> 00:11:03,880 gave me for David and Marysa were on these ads. 200 00:11:05,752 --> 00:11:08,189 [intriguing music] 201 00:11:08,232 --> 00:11:11,888 - I start looking at some of the email accounts 202 00:11:11,932 --> 00:11:14,848 to see what I can get. We went out and did some interviews together. 203 00:11:14,891 --> 00:11:17,677 - Their story sounded pretty similar to M.K. 204 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:18,939 with a lot of the same details. 205 00:11:18,982 --> 00:11:21,332 One was being on the documentary. 206 00:11:21,376 --> 00:11:24,074 - Some girls were afraid of being blackmailed by David, 207 00:11:24,118 --> 00:11:25,685 so they never reported him to Police. 208 00:11:26,511 --> 00:11:29,689 I start looking at David's online presence. 209 00:11:29,732 --> 00:11:33,562 I started looking at his bona fides for being a producer 210 00:11:33,605 --> 00:11:37,218 for which he was remarkably unsuccessful as a producer. 211 00:11:37,261 --> 00:11:38,654 [laugh] 212 00:11:38,698 --> 00:11:41,309 He would show these girls pictures of him involved 213 00:11:41,352 --> 00:11:45,008 in what appeared to be productions like, 214 00:11:45,052 --> 00:11:48,185 I think a music video for some little local band that he shot. 215 00:11:48,229 --> 00:11:50,535 - As we started talking about where to shoot it from as far 216 00:11:50,579 --> 00:11:53,060 as the weather and the woods and just the kinda general 217 00:11:53,103 --> 00:11:54,017 look we've got here. 218 00:11:54,061 --> 00:11:57,238 - So David, the "HBO producer". 219 00:11:57,281 --> 00:11:59,327 What kind of documentaries does he produce? 220 00:12:00,894 --> 00:12:02,286 - None. [laughs] 221 00:12:02,330 --> 00:12:04,375 - I was trying to think of a nice way to say that, 222 00:12:04,419 --> 00:12:06,856 but, none. - And he doesn't work for HBO. 223 00:12:06,900 --> 00:12:09,511 - No. And HBO confirmed with us that 224 00:12:09,554 --> 00:12:12,470 they had no business dealings whatsoever with David. 225 00:12:12,514 --> 00:12:15,082 - Have you ever seen a case of human trafficking 226 00:12:15,125 --> 00:12:18,215 that's laid out this way to get the victims? 227 00:12:18,259 --> 00:12:20,130 - No, it was very unique. 228 00:12:20,174 --> 00:12:24,787 I've never seen somebody take it from the producer angle. 229 00:12:24,831 --> 00:12:27,572 [suspenseful music] 230 00:12:32,926 --> 00:12:35,189 - He never filmed anyone, and some of them became suspicious 231 00:12:35,232 --> 00:12:36,625 as time went on about this. 232 00:12:36,668 --> 00:12:41,151 - What about Reese? - We learned that Reese was also 233 00:12:41,195 --> 00:12:43,066 victimized by David initially. 234 00:12:43,110 --> 00:12:44,459 That's how they first met. 235 00:12:44,502 --> 00:12:46,809 She was an aspiring musician and so he would say: 236 00:12:46,853 --> 00:12:48,419 "I'll make you a music career." 237 00:12:48,463 --> 00:12:51,771 [Marysa sings] 238 00:12:53,250 --> 00:12:56,645 - David is a very good manipulator. 239 00:12:56,688 --> 00:13:00,780 He had Reese serve as the one who does a lot of recruitment. 240 00:13:00,823 --> 00:13:02,259 so.. - His bottom bitch. 241 00:13:02,303 --> 00:13:05,001 - Yeah. So she would actually do some of the recruitment 242 00:13:05,045 --> 00:13:07,221 for people like: "Oh, I'm a female. 243 00:13:07,264 --> 00:13:09,701 This, this guy, he's really great and he's helping me with 244 00:13:09,745 --> 00:13:12,139 my music career and I think he could really help you too." 245 00:13:13,488 --> 00:13:16,534 [anxious music] 246 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:21,931 In this case, there were no chains involved, 247 00:13:21,975 --> 00:13:23,454 no threatening them at gunpoint. 248 00:13:23,498 --> 00:13:26,806 In this investigation, fraud and coercion were huge for 249 00:13:26,849 --> 00:13:28,720 the federal statut. I remember calling Nathalie 250 00:13:28,764 --> 00:13:31,071 because I'm looking at this bank statement and it says that 251 00:13:31,114 --> 00:13:33,508 he has $155 million in the bank. 252 00:13:33,551 --> 00:13:35,336 - What? What? - Like, there's no way 253 00:13:35,379 --> 00:13:37,817 this man has $155 million in the bank. 254 00:13:38,426 --> 00:13:41,298 [playful music] 255 00:13:43,083 --> 00:13:44,693 It's like, this doesn't seem right. 256 00:13:44,736 --> 00:13:49,263 And I look, and in the date at the top you can see a cursor 257 00:13:49,306 --> 00:13:50,568 [scoffing] 258 00:13:52,353 --> 00:13:55,399 [playful music] 259 00:13:55,443 --> 00:13:57,793 Oh my God. And then you look at the top of it and you can 260 00:13:57,837 --> 00:14:00,230 literally see at the top of the screenshot-- 261 00:14:00,274 --> 00:14:03,059 [together]: The toolbar! [Kristy]: That's fantastic. 262 00:14:03,103 --> 00:14:06,758 - A Word document that had been edited as a bank statement. 263 00:14:06,802 --> 00:14:07,934 - So he made a bank statement. 264 00:14:10,806 --> 00:14:12,808 At some point, we did a search warrant? 265 00:14:12,852 --> 00:14:15,767 - That's correct. There was enough evidence of sex trafficking to convince 266 00:14:15,811 --> 00:14:17,813 a judge to allow a search of their apartment. 267 00:14:18,901 --> 00:14:20,163 - What does that place look like? 268 00:14:20,207 --> 00:14:21,599 - I can still smell it. 269 00:14:21,643 --> 00:14:22,949 It's disgusting. 270 00:14:22,992 --> 00:14:26,169 Marysa and David were not home at the apartment. 271 00:14:26,213 --> 00:14:29,607 [stressful music] 272 00:14:34,961 --> 00:14:38,442 It was exactly the opposite of what I would expect from 273 00:14:38,486 --> 00:14:44,535 somebody who, you know, says he has enough to pay employees $20 million. 274 00:14:44,579 --> 00:14:45,580 [Kristy]: Uh-uh. 275 00:14:47,147 --> 00:14:51,238 - I did find the contract that had M.K.'s signature on it. 276 00:14:51,281 --> 00:14:53,370 You know, corroborating her statement. 277 00:14:53,414 --> 00:14:54,937 - That's obviously fraud. 278 00:14:54,981 --> 00:14:55,982 These are not legal contracts. 279 00:14:56,025 --> 00:14:56,896 - That's great. 280 00:14:59,202 --> 00:15:00,421 Anything else you find there? 281 00:15:00,464 --> 00:15:04,120 - We collected nearly 700 hotel key cards. 282 00:15:04,164 --> 00:15:06,949 - Wait, timeout. 700 hotel key cards? 283 00:15:06,993 --> 00:15:08,211 From different hotels? 284 00:15:08,255 --> 00:15:09,343 - Different hotels. 285 00:15:09,386 --> 00:15:10,910 - Those cards have information on them. 286 00:15:10,953 --> 00:15:12,085 Those cards have the date, the room, 287 00:15:12,128 --> 00:15:13,564 what credit card you used. 288 00:15:13,608 --> 00:15:15,871 - I was able to cross-reference a number of sources 289 00:15:15,915 --> 00:15:19,048 of information to connect half those cards to prostitution. 290 00:15:19,092 --> 00:15:23,183 A lot of the hotel key cards that were there 291 00:15:23,226 --> 00:15:27,187 were the same hotels that M.K. had stayed at. 292 00:15:27,230 --> 00:15:30,146 We have to leave a Return of Service with the copy of a search warrant. 293 00:15:30,190 --> 00:15:32,105 - Yeah. - So now you're looking at 294 00:15:32,148 --> 00:15:33,845 not only what crimes 295 00:15:33,889 --> 00:15:35,891 I'm investigating, but you're looking at everything 296 00:15:35,935 --> 00:15:37,501 I just took from your, your place. 297 00:15:38,459 --> 00:15:41,418 And that evidence points to sex trafficking charges. 298 00:15:41,462 --> 00:15:43,377 I learned at that time that he had an attorney. 299 00:15:43,420 --> 00:15:45,901 I coordinated with his attorney to have him turn himself in, 300 00:15:45,945 --> 00:15:47,468 which is a common tactic. 301 00:15:47,511 --> 00:15:50,079 The attorney will tell their client just turn yourself in. 302 00:15:50,123 --> 00:15:52,038 It's better for cooperation. 303 00:15:54,562 --> 00:15:57,086 The bail was set to $250,000. 304 00:15:57,130 --> 00:15:59,349 He didn't show up to second appearance. 305 00:15:59,393 --> 00:16:01,177 An arrest warrant gets issued. - Right. 306 00:16:01,221 --> 00:16:02,962 [Natalie]: For both David and Reese. 307 00:16:03,005 --> 00:16:04,224 They're now on the run. 308 00:16:04,267 --> 00:16:05,399 I became worried. 309 00:16:05,442 --> 00:16:07,444 He now knows he's facing all this stuff. 310 00:16:07,488 --> 00:16:08,489 Is he destroying evidence? 311 00:16:08,532 --> 00:16:10,186 Is he reaching out to victims? 312 00:16:10,230 --> 00:16:11,666 Is he getting them to change their mind? 313 00:16:12,319 --> 00:16:13,276 Where is he? 314 00:16:19,282 --> 00:16:22,024 David goes from coming in, you know, voluntarily, 315 00:16:22,068 --> 00:16:24,548 to be arrested, to...now you're a fugitive. 316 00:16:24,592 --> 00:16:27,508 - Police looking for two suspects now on the run. 317 00:16:29,292 --> 00:16:30,990 - We had no idea where he is, 318 00:16:31,033 --> 00:16:33,427 I was pretty frustrated and stressed out. 319 00:16:33,470 --> 00:16:36,952 And, you know, now I have like the victims freaking out, calling me. 320 00:16:38,127 --> 00:16:41,739 - We were able to track his movements with 321 00:16:41,783 --> 00:16:46,657 credit card information, and-- - So the FBI drops a subpoena. 322 00:16:46,701 --> 00:16:48,920 And we're watching his credit card traffic. 323 00:16:48,964 --> 00:16:50,226 - Yes. 324 00:16:50,270 --> 00:16:51,836 He made a credit card purchase on an airplane. 325 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:53,186 They were flying across the country. 326 00:16:53,229 --> 00:16:54,926 So we can get booking information for that. 327 00:16:54,970 --> 00:16:56,102 He went to Chicago. 328 00:16:56,145 --> 00:16:57,929 Gets a hotel in Chicago. 329 00:16:57,973 --> 00:17:01,063 But then our agents give a call to Natalie and say: 330 00:17:01,107 --> 00:17:03,587 "hey, he's on a flight back to Seattle right now" 331 00:17:03,631 --> 00:17:04,893 - Oh, wow. - They were like: 332 00:17:04,935 --> 00:17:06,502 "he's going to be coming into SeaTac tonight." 333 00:17:06,547 --> 00:17:10,290 I was like: "Oh, I'm going. Meet you there!" 334 00:17:11,769 --> 00:17:14,685 We get down there and to Sea-Tac Airport. 335 00:17:14,729 --> 00:17:16,644 And get to the gate. 336 00:17:16,686 --> 00:17:19,080 The flight staff is like: 337 00:17:19,125 --> 00:17:20,082 "okay, everyone has to stay seated." 338 00:17:20,126 --> 00:17:21,823 This is like stuff I've seen on TV. 339 00:17:21,866 --> 00:17:23,825 This is bad ass. 340 00:17:23,867 --> 00:17:26,001 - Absolutely. - I'm walking down the jet way 341 00:17:26,045 --> 00:17:28,699 thinking: "Oh, my gosh. I'm with the FBI." 342 00:17:28,743 --> 00:17:30,658 And I get on the flight. 343 00:17:30,701 --> 00:17:32,094 He's in first class. 344 00:17:32,138 --> 00:17:34,357 David immediately was like: "I'm not saying a word. 345 00:17:34,401 --> 00:17:35,097 Talk to my attorney." 346 00:17:35,141 --> 00:17:36,577 I'm like: "all right". 347 00:17:36,620 --> 00:17:39,580 Very confident that this is not going to impact me. 348 00:17:39,623 --> 00:17:41,364 We bring him to jail. 349 00:17:41,408 --> 00:17:45,673 And then it's a matter of tracking down Reese. 350 00:17:47,544 --> 00:17:50,852 - We find her in a not great hotel in Chicago. 351 00:17:52,158 --> 00:17:55,030 And at that point, I coordinate with our agents in Chicago 352 00:17:55,074 --> 00:17:58,425 to go get her, our fugitive. 353 00:17:58,468 --> 00:18:00,296 - She was extradited back 354 00:18:00,340 --> 00:18:02,777 and also booked into King County Jail. 355 00:18:03,256 --> 00:18:04,779 - It was an amazing feeling. 356 00:18:04,822 --> 00:18:06,520 We were able to catch both of them! 357 00:18:06,563 --> 00:18:08,174 - The two face multiple charges 358 00:18:08,217 --> 00:18:10,959 tonight including promoting prostitution. 359 00:18:11,002 --> 00:18:13,744 Now, police want anyone who knows anything to come forward. 360 00:18:13,788 --> 00:18:16,095 They do expect there are more victims out there. 361 00:18:16,138 --> 00:18:17,574 - Now they're both in jail. 362 00:18:18,184 --> 00:18:22,362 And David and Reese found a way to have 363 00:18:22,405 --> 00:18:23,798 conversations while in jail. 364 00:18:34,809 --> 00:18:36,463 - And now what are these conversations like? 365 00:18:36,506 --> 00:18:37,812 - Horribly manipulative. 366 00:18:43,339 --> 00:18:45,515 - "So what you got to do is you got to go tell them 367 00:18:45,559 --> 00:18:46,777 what you did." - David was convincing Reese 368 00:18:46,821 --> 00:18:48,388 to take the fall for this entire thing. 369 00:19:15,110 --> 00:19:18,809 - Like, I was listening to this going: "gosh, he's good". 370 00:19:18,853 --> 00:19:21,725 I get why they all believed everything he said. 371 00:19:21,769 --> 00:19:23,945 - Um, what other calls was he making from jail? 372 00:19:23,988 --> 00:19:26,774 - Gosh, he was talking to friends, his family members, 373 00:19:26,817 --> 00:19:28,732 his mom especially. 374 00:19:28,776 --> 00:19:32,258 I get a phone call and Natalie is like: "oh crud", 375 00:19:32,301 --> 00:19:35,522 like he was asking his mother to dispose of evidence. 376 00:19:35,565 --> 00:19:39,395 Because he says that this backpack with I think an iPad 377 00:19:39,439 --> 00:19:42,616 and a computer are at his mom's house and he wants her 378 00:19:42,659 --> 00:19:44,052 to get rid of. 379 00:19:44,183 --> 00:19:45,184 Get in my car. Let's go. 380 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:48,099 And off we go like 90 miles an hour. 381 00:19:48,143 --> 00:19:49,100 Almost get pulled over. 382 00:19:49,144 --> 00:19:50,667 We didn't have a warrant yet. 383 00:19:50,711 --> 00:19:54,193 So when I showed up, the dad was home and we just kind of 384 00:19:54,236 --> 00:19:57,152 had to sweet talk the dad into giving us consent. 385 00:19:57,196 --> 00:20:00,808 - But then we learned that his daughter 386 00:20:00,851 --> 00:20:02,897 had the iPad and MacBook Pro. 387 00:20:02,940 --> 00:20:04,159 - Where's the Daughter? 388 00:20:04,203 --> 00:20:05,247 - In the Seattle area. 389 00:20:05,291 --> 00:20:06,466 - How old is she? 390 00:20:06,509 --> 00:20:07,815 - She was older than Marysa, wasn't she? 391 00:20:07,858 --> 00:20:10,383 - Early twenties. - He had given those things 392 00:20:10,426 --> 00:20:14,038 to her and had purposely not given her the passwords, 393 00:20:14,082 --> 00:20:16,258 basically hoping she'd wiped them to use for herself. 394 00:20:16,302 --> 00:20:19,261 - Fortunately, she brought those to us and turned them in. 395 00:20:19,305 --> 00:20:23,091 On those devices we found child pornography, 396 00:20:23,134 --> 00:20:25,354 which we now call Child Sexual Abuse Material. 397 00:20:25,398 --> 00:20:26,268 Or CSAM. - Yeah. 398 00:20:27,356 --> 00:20:31,142 - That led us to some other victims as well. 399 00:20:31,186 --> 00:20:34,798 One of the victims that we found, he had actually 400 00:20:34,842 --> 00:20:37,584 approached through a grief chat room. 401 00:20:37,627 --> 00:20:42,763 This girl was 15-years old at the time and her mother 402 00:20:42,806 --> 00:20:44,373 had recently committed suicide. 403 00:20:44,939 --> 00:20:46,680 She was especially vulnerable. 404 00:20:46,723 --> 00:20:50,031 It was: "I love you and I'm going to take care of you. 405 00:20:50,074 --> 00:20:51,337 We're going to get married." 406 00:20:56,733 --> 00:20:58,735 He told her everything she wanted to hear. 407 00:20:59,649 --> 00:21:04,654 And he had her send nude pictures, sexually explicit pictures. 408 00:21:04,698 --> 00:21:06,656 So he caused the production of child pornography. 409 00:21:06,700 --> 00:21:08,397 - I was just going to say, he produced child porn. 410 00:21:08,441 --> 00:21:09,268 - Yeah. 411 00:21:24,500 --> 00:21:26,067 - We would call each other and just be like: 412 00:21:26,110 --> 00:21:28,330 "I can't believe the level of depravity of this person". 413 00:21:28,374 --> 00:21:30,898 - I mean, you know, I worked crimes against children also, 414 00:21:30,941 --> 00:21:34,554 and it's the worst possible evidence to review. 415 00:21:34,597 --> 00:21:38,297 It's like watching the work of a demon walking on the earth. 416 00:21:43,127 --> 00:21:46,870 - We presented our case to the AUSA, who is also female. 417 00:21:46,914 --> 00:21:49,090 - There's a female prosecutor 418 00:21:49,133 --> 00:21:50,657 and then both investigators are female? 419 00:21:50,700 --> 00:21:52,398 - Yes, which is actually pretty unusual. 420 00:21:52,441 --> 00:21:54,051 - Like there's-- - It's very unusual. 421 00:21:54,095 --> 00:21:57,141 - This is a person who hated females, who discussed them via 422 00:21:57,185 --> 00:21:59,361 messages as a property essentially. 423 00:21:59,405 --> 00:22:02,103 And I think that this helped so much for the victims to see 424 00:22:02,146 --> 00:22:05,324 that we can all take him down. - Right. 425 00:22:05,367 --> 00:22:07,326 - As a big group of females. 426 00:22:23,211 --> 00:22:25,344 - Reese agreed to testify against David. 427 00:22:25,387 --> 00:22:29,696 But based upon the jail calls that we were reviewing, 428 00:22:29,739 --> 00:22:33,743 we ended up believing that she maybe wouldn't follow through with that. 429 00:22:33,787 --> 00:22:35,397 So we went without her testimony. 430 00:22:40,576 --> 00:22:45,059 It's so important to see that when victims come forward 431 00:22:45,102 --> 00:22:48,758 that we listen to victims and we're willing to fight for you. 432 00:23:00,944 --> 00:23:04,818 Subtitling: difuze