Something Was Wrong is intended for mature audiences, as it discusses topics that can be upsetting,

such as emotional, physical, and sexual violence, rape, and murder.

Content warnings for each episode and confidential resources for survivors can be found in the episode

notes. Some survivor names have been changed for anonymity purposes.

pseudonyms are given to minors in these stories for their privacy and protection.

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You think you know me, you don't know me well, at all, at all.

You can't know me, you don't know somebody.

By December 2020, my business partner came to me and was like, we need to do something.

We agreed that I would lob a call into the FBI field office here in Denver and just get their

advice on what to do. There was a detective assigned to my case who is with the Denver Police

Department, but also served on the cybercrime task force for the

FBI. I was driving home. I got a call, and it was a Colorado Springs number. I picked it up,

and I was so caught off guard. I'm kind of one of those people that if I don't know a number,

especially given the experience I went through, I usually let it go to voicemail because if it's

important enough, someone will leave a voicemail or I'll know the person calling. And in this case,

for whatever reason, I picked it up. It was a woman on the other line and she said she was calling

from the victim advocate's office. This was with the FBI at the time because I had just reported my

case and it was still working its way through the system.

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