The ChatRoom: Episode 372 (part 1/2)

UK True Crime Podcast

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4.3 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

At the beginning of this century, when the internet was new for most people - and before the social media giants claimed their turf - chatrooms were very popular, especially with teenagers.

Mark was 16 and lived in Stockport in the north-west of England. He was a regular on the Manchester Teens chatroom. But whilst he was there to have some fun and chat to girls, not everyone he spoke to had such simple motives. As he was soon to discover...

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Gemma Gould
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Sources:
https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/mark-and-john-the-fantasists
https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/article/the-boy-who-incited-his-own-murder
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2004/may/29/crime.uknews
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2005/02/bachrach200502
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/boy-14-posed-as-spy-to-arrange-his-own-murder-565124.html
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/internet-murder-boys-told-never-1110248

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0:00.0	Everyone is talking about the new Mean Girls movie.
0:03.0	Get in, loser.
0:04.0	It's a new twist from Tina Fay.
0:06.0	Mortis, the Queen Bee.
0:07.0	Regina George.
0:08.0	Don't look her in the eye.
0:09.0	Mean Girls is exclusively in cinemas January 17th.
0:12.0	You can be really hot.
0:13.0	You change like everything.
0:15.0	Don't miss the meanest event on the big screen.
0:19.0	Come here, I want to fix your eyebrows.
0:20.0	Can I still have two?
0:22.0	Oh, hell no.
0:24.0	Mean Girls is exclusively in cinema's January 17th.
0:27.0	Book tickets now.
0:29.0	Certificate 12A.
0:30.0	Hello and welcome to episode 372 of the UK True Crime Podcast, I'm Adam.
0:37.0	So do you feel that Christmas and New Year never happened yet?
0:41.0	Yeah, me too. A huge thank you to a listener and my good friend
0:45.6	Gemma Gold for researching and writing this week's story. It is such an extraordinary
0:50.7	case from the northwest of England and it highlights the dangers of chat rooms and online fantasy worlds and how one person's fantasy had major consequences.
1:01.0	It is the stuff of absolute nightmares for parents and this is a two-part story
	...

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