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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Kids on Kik: Kidnappings, killings linked to teen chat app

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

News, True Crime

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2017

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

An alarming number of kidnappings, rapes and murders have been linked to messaging applications that can easily be downloaded onto smartphones for free by pre-teens and teens. Police are warning about one especially popular mobile chat app called Kik, which the creator claims is used by 40% of US teens. Nancy Grace and Alan Duke explore the dangers in this episode.

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0:00.0

I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new co-case podcast, Zone 7.

0:04.1

We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized

0:09.1

experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on

0:13.6

to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.

0:18.0

We are going to solve these cases own air together. Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app,

0:25.2

the Apple Podcast app or wherever you listen to your favorite podcast.

0:37.5

It all started with a conversation on the messaging app, Kick, a 15-year-old girl from

0:41.9

McCollum Township arranged to meet with a 31-year-old man. A man she met turned out to be a convicted

0:47.4

sex offender. He raped her in his car. She managed to get away. This is Carm Stories with Nancy

0:54.7

Grace. A 16-year-old from Alley in County is missing and considered in danger after meeting

1:00.8

someone on the messaging app, Kick. They say 16-year-old joined Martin Leclerhome in

1:06.0

Sagittok Saturday night. They say she might have taken a Greyhound bus out of state.

1:11.2

If you have a teenager, there's a good chance they use it. According to its maker, 40% of all

1:15.5

teenagers are on Kick. One potentially dangerous aspect of Kick, it is completely anonymous.

1:22.4

You have no way of knowing who you're speaking with. No matter where you go,

1:29.3

everybody you see has their cell phone either stuck to their ear or they're walking around

1:36.3

staring at it or their iPad or their device. But now there is no doubt left that the Kick,

1:46.5

K-I-K app is leading to not only kidnaps, disappearances, but worse, the Kick app, K-I-K.

2:00.0

Police believe a missing girl is in danger now after she spoke with someone on the messaging app

2:07.2

and left home. I'm talking about Joy Dean Martin of Sagittok. She leaves her home and we believe

2:15.6

at this hour, boarded a Greyhound bus to travel out of the state after she chats with a person

2:23.1

on the Kick app. And this is according to Michigan State Police. She is now considered an

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