EP79: Chatroom Confessions of Murder

Crimes and Consequences

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Imagine you are a member of an internet support group for problem drinkers. One day as you are perusing through the chatroom discussions, you stumble upon a disturbing post from a regular named Larry. In his post, Larry details murdering his child three years earlier and how he got away with it. What do you do? This is the shocking story of the 200 members' reactions to Larry Froistad's confession of murder and the power of the Bystander Effect.

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Sources:
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/10/biztech/articles/10confession.html
https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/crimelaw/features/2668/
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/30/us/on-line-trail-to-an-off-line-killing.html
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6608691232651917520&q=Larry+Froistad&hl=en&as_sdt=80000006

Transcript

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0:00.0	This episode may contain content of a graphic nature, including descriptions of physical and sexual violence against adults, children, and animals.
0:09.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:12.0	Hi everyone, I'm Tanya. And I'm Tlaia. advised.
0:12.8	Hi everyone, I'm Tanya.
0:14.3	And I'm T Leah.
0:15.4	And we are Crimes and Consequences, a true crime podcast. I'm going to be. Hi Tlaia, Hi Tanya. What's new today? Oh nothing. Me either. I hate it when you throw me off script like that.
0:46.0	There's nothing new.
0:48.0	Well, I have kind of an unusual story for you today.
0:52.0	We're going to start today's episode a little
0:54.9	different. I want you and our listeners to pretend that you're in an online group
1:00.1	for people who consider themselves problem drinkers, maybe not necessarily
1:04.6	alcoholics, but just problem drinkers, which I don't know exactly what the
1:09.2	difference is, but just go with me on this one. The group offers advice. It's like a way for people just to talk to other people with their same problems and in the group is about 200 people.
1:22.0	Are we anonymous? And in the group is about 200 people.
1:22.8	Are we anonymous?
1:24.5	Some people are anonymous, but you can also post under your real name.
1:29.2	It's up to you how anonymous you want to be.
1:32.8	And one day you read in the messages in the group
1:35.3	and there's one that catches your eye.
1:37.6	It's from a man named Larry,
1:39.0	and Larry has been an active member of the group
1:41.3	for the past several months and Larry has not
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