I'm Dennis Cooper, host of Culpable, and I want to tell you about this case I've been following in a small Ohio town.

When 17-year-old Danny Violet stormed out of his house one afternoon in 1998, his family thought it was just another episode of teenage angst.

But their worst fears materialized when his lifeless, asphyxiated body was later found in a nearby cornfield.

The question remains,

what happened to Danny?

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The... Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile.

This is Jim Clementi, retired FBI profiler, former New York City prosecutor and writer-producer of criminal minds and Bluebeard on Audible.

And with me today is Kathy Canning Mello, retired FBI agent and profiler and co-host of the Audible podcast FBI Profilers Criminal Archives.

Well, Kathy, we have a serious issue to discuss today, don't we?

Yes. And I think it's just, it's a fascinating discussion about how people are engaging

with chatbots, but also I think it speaks to the larger issue of the epidemic of loneliness

in our country and how people are trying to manage that through their

engagement with chat bots. Right. So we're talking about people who, um, who pay for a chatbot service.

And they get to talk to, AI chatbot, an AI model that will interact with you

as if it were human, right?

Exactly, right.

And they have, I'm sure, innumerable numbers of these kind of chatbots, depending on what

you're looking for.

But oftentimes, they're very attractive female or seemingly very attractive females.

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