The Darkest Web: 2. Man with the amazing memory
2/23/202626 min
US Special Agents Greg and Pete are desperate. Somewhere in America a twelve year old girl, who they have called Lucy, is being sexually abused. Her abuser has been sharing images of his abuse for six years on the dark web. They have to find her - and save her.
They were convinced that Facebook would be able to help them using its facial recognition technology, but the tech giant is unable to help. So they go back to the start , examining every single thing they can see in the room she is being abused in: the...
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First 90 secondsSam Parante· Host0:00
Hi, it's Sam. Just a warning before we start, this episode contains references to child sexual abuse and some strong language.
Greg Squire· Guest0:09
Every stop that we could to try to figure out how do we find the normal people that are seeing this little girl every day. You'd see things, right? Like you've, you've been looking at hundreds of images at hundreds of things that could be clues. So your eye is naturally drawn towards any item in a room that might help you like, oh, we know it. We never looked at that. Or here you're on vacation or wherever you might be. And you look at a wall and you go, oh shit, the texture on that wall is very similar to this.
Sam Parante· Host0:45
From the moment they wake up, US Homeland Security special agents Greg Squire and Pete Manning are focused.
Greg Squire· Guest0:53
So you don't separate from it. You can't. You won't allow yourself to, and you have that feeling of responsibility. And yeah, of course, you look at your own kid and you go, this is the life we're protecting. And we've now adopted this, you know, this, this is a child who is just enduring something we can't even imagine what it feels like and never want to know firsthand. You know, we can't, there's just, it's just not possible. There's never a lack of motivation.
Sam Parante· Host1:28
Buoyed