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232: Part 1: Chad Meli – Unmasking Evil & Fighting Child Exploitation

Game of Crimes

Game of Crimes

True Crime

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Murph sits down with anti-human trafficking investigator Chad Meli. Chad walks us through a harrowing investigation involving a father who exploited his own daughters for profit, using social media and online platforms to traffic abuse across borders. What followed was a complex, high-risk operation requiring undercover work, cutting-edge technology, and unprecedented collaboration between NGOs and law enforcement agencies worldwide. This is a heroic fight to protect the most vulnerable. January is Human Trafficking Awareness month.

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He was a teacher, access to a lot of young ladies.

0:03.0

One of the main services we provide to law enforcement is victim identification.

0:07.0

We worked with them using software, facial recognition software to look at.

0:11.0

If we, like in this case, we find large numbers of photos and videos.

0:16.0

We can assist law enforcement going through those and matching those up and trying to identify those to actual kids. We didn't find many. I don't think any that weren't not his daughters. But again, you know, these girls were pretty young. It would have gotten progressively gotten worse and worse. Because eventually these girls would have got too old. This addiction, this desire this guy has that, or he's sexually attracted to these prepubescent people. It's not just going to go away when

0:38.1

his daughters get too old. He's going to find new victim. Was there any evidence that he was

0:42.1

abusing his own daughters? Just obviously the photographs that he was taken and then through

0:46.5

the child's forensic interviews by most daughters, both daughters disclosed and is supposed to

0:50.7

use at the hands of the father. I'm a very young age.

0:54.9

I'm Steve Murphy, DEA Special Agent Retired and now host of the Game of Crimes podcast.

1:00.0

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1:04.4

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1:09.7

and occasionally from the criminals that they

1:12.4

faced. Welcome to Game of Crimes.

1:27.3

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