Hey guys and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast, a true crime podcast featuring

myself, Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa. Hi, Melissa. Hi, Mandy. How are you? I'm hanging in there.

How are you? I am doing well. We have a short week this week with my kids at

school, so I'm enjoying these last few hours of freedom. What holiday is it now? Fall break, two

half days. Yeah, you know, we all need a break in the fall. I do, but they don't. Well, don't feel

too down about their two days.

Is it two days they have a while?

Two and a half. Yes. In another week, my kids have a full week of school for fall breaks. Okay. Yeah. You win. And by that, I mean, you lose big time. Yeah. Yeah. So, Mandy, before we get started real quick, one thing I was just thinking about, if you are a listener of the show, if you're new here, thank you so much for joining us. Please make sure you subscribe. We don't really ask a lot of our listeners, but it'd be really great if you subscribe. If you leave a review, all of that really helps share the episode. We would very much appreciate it.

We would. Thank you. Okay, Melissa, I'm super excited to get into this story or this set of

stories, if you will, for this Thursday episode. But there's one in here that has been in the

news, like just super recently that I'm excited to talk about because it's absolutely bonkers.

Today we're talking about TikTok murders, which unfortunately there are more than one of those.

But as we all know, on TikTok, you can really be anyone, right? You can be a comedian, a dancer,

just a star. You can actually build a world for yourself or make it look like it's perfect and

shiny and new and you can do all of this in 15 second videos. I never really was into TikTok myself.

I know you always have been, you've enjoyed. Since 2020, 23. I, like, held back. I did not want to join another freaking app. And then when I did, I was like, you idiot, this is wonderful. Yeah. So I do like TikTok, but I have periods where I like, I don't know. I just had to erase and like redo my phone. And I haven't even downloaded it again because but I will as soon as

someone sends me a TikTok and then it forces you to like download the app you can't open it on the

browser so it's a whole thing but TikTok yes it's a big thing millions of people scroll through you know

their endless feeds curated to perfection every single day there's dance challenges there's

comedy skits there's's lifestyle content, music,

things that just go viral overnight. So it's a platform where ordinary everyday people like

you and me become millionaires, unlike you and me. With TikTok, though, teenagers can become

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