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SHE was receiving long, rambling emails threatening her life, saying that her husband is cheating on her. She's telling her to watch her back. SHE Better get out of the picture.

Managing emails sent to a newly wed.

the new wife went to authorities and said that he was being her rest kind.

All the fire which started happening.

obviously this has to stop. What arrived next was far worse.

Strange man appeared at her door and tried to attack her.

Somebody was posting ads online saying that they wanted to fulfill his rape fantasy.

Everything pointed to her husband's ax. They said.

we're going have to take you into custody. You're increasing for potentially the rest of my life.

But hiding behind the threats was a cyber secret evil.

something that the devil might do.

So who was the real devil?

Da, in this case, would use the word diocles.

I think he's close to the mark.

a dangerous game with someone planned for kids.

I would wake up, and I would think this is just a nightmare. And he wasn't.

I'm letter hold and this is deadline. Here's denis morphy with .

diabolical. Locked in a cage, the shrikes of women howling in the night.

This isn't real. This is like something you had seen a movie. This doesn't happen in real life.

How did a self described goody two shoes of disney princess get swept away in a conspiracy so convoluted, so twisted?

This is one of the most well thought out, well executed plans. And it's .

scary solution. I've tangled web you back and altogether bizarre plot, complicated scheme.

very complicated, very creative.

This is the most shocking form of love river that i've ever seen.

There would be allegations of harassment, cyber stocked assault and attempted rain. Someone was going to get hurt. Someone was going to jail. And at the end of the nightmare, well, no one saw that coming. You decide whether IT was a love rivalry, but in the beginning, that was clearly a boy meets girl love story.

There was a very intense period of my life in the sense of just a very kind of world and type of romance.

August two thousand and thirteen, twenty something, Michelle heavily met A U. S. Martial named E N.

D. S. Over a cup of coffee, things move fast. He told you that you love you really, very beautiful.

Yes.

he start to hit you with the thunder.

Yeah, kind of really all. And actually, yeah, about the second date, he was telling me he like me.

And did you think slow down? Did you welcome?

You know, I think when sure, a Young girl who's kind of been raised on the very tie princess dream, I is a very exciting and .

flattering princess. SHE was meeting over a kapi o the man he dreamed up. And SHE was a .

little girl. SHE was very major tive very intelligent and SHE just love to play and create.

Michel's mother Susan and father Michael raised her and her Younger sister in this modest hoe in ontario, california. SHE was a cross country runner. Good student.

I was never driver kid in .

the curve for everybody in yeah.

actually sometimes Michelle .

was offered a scholarship to attend dickinson, a well regarded liberal arts college back east n. pennsylvania. You must have both been very proud of how your child was working out.

Oh yeah. thanks. After graduation, he tried various careers before eventually landing a marketing job at disney.

And now SHE admit this man indeed, the U. S. Martial, are very own prince charming.

In december two thousand fourteen, for her twenty eighth birthday, he was her off new york. He took her to the sweeting. This is a top rocket about her center and proposed. And you said.

I said yes, yeah, I said, yes.

IT was time to find a starter castle to complete the ferry tale. Just minutes from her job at disney. They bought into a newton do development in anaho. SHE would be able to watch the disney fireworks from the roof.

I put the whole down payment down. You paid the hole down. I put the whole down payment. Yes.

they waited for the condo to be finished. And in june, they moved down. But Michelle said that when the relationship changed, fell apart. Actually, two months later, SHE packed her jett with whatever stuff SHE could fit in and left, showed up at her parents doorstep. Surprised tell me about that night.

Um well, I had got ta text from her saying, can I come home and I said, you don't even need desk.

Why were you not suit for him in your opinion?

I didn't feel that the relationship was .

healthy for me, not nurturing for you, not nursing for me. Yeah with tempers were the.

let's just say that not a strong personality. And so, you know, I have to be very careful, the kinds of people around myself with, it's almost Better for me not to be in a relationship than to be in a bad one.

But there were still tied that bound the former couple, a mortgage the deep to that condo in anheimer, which became a source of attention, both hired lawyers, but a good person. Michelle claimed ian was unfaithful, even abusive, and SHE sent him a strange email, the language list with religiosity and references to the bible says, and a mythical deeming called lila, please explain to your real st.

Attorney that god law is above all laws, including the law man. Louis, you may try to hide behind the law of man, but IT is a weak shield that will bend and crack against the sort of god. Ian denied her allegations and said he was so alarmed by Michelle email that he applied for a restraining order again.

He accused her of infidelity and wrote, because of her emotional instability, history of fits of rage, I fear for my safety. The request for the restraining order was dismissed a few weeks later, and the law of man prevailed, or so IT seemed. The lawyers hashed out a compromise.

We actually love getting a subtle in agreement.

Iran and Michelle signed in november two thousand and fifty. The deal allowed ian to stay in the condo, but he had six months to get his own mortgage. FAiling that, he'd have to sell the condo and split any profits with Michelle. Michelle stood to lose most of her down payment about ten thousand dollars, but he said he was worthy.

I moved on with my life completely, one hundred percent completely. Um I actually started dating .

again to think of a problem with a condo.

A major party agreed, signed IT was awaiting him.

SHE went back to school, started in NBA program at chapin university, into, moved on quickly, married a woman named Angela. But the nagging condo issue still wasn't resolved, and the six months deadline was approaching.

And that kind of when all the .

fireworks started .

happening soon, more emails, really frightening ones, aimed at a new target. When we return.

Angela was claiming that he was receiving emails and her, that SHE Better get out of the picture soon before he hurts her.

and not long after the emails arrive. So do police.

I was gone on out here and the guy said we just arrested shell.

By june first two thousand sixteen, tension over the anaho condo micheil harley and E N D S had shared was one again, starting to peak. The deadline was fast approaching. Ian needed to take over the mortgage or sell the condo, and that's when some odd events began to unfold. Michelle, father Michael, was at work. His Youngest daughter was at their home in ontario.

I get a phone call from my Youngest daughter and he, some, he's not beaten on the door. And I said, look outside as a police car. He says the others, two of I just won't open the door because it's scared her, I guess.

And so a woman throws down a restraining order. Here you've been served kind of thing. Yeah, here you've been served with the police, two officers there. And IT was from Angela deas. The restraining .

order was for a machine who was still living at her parents home. IT came from Angela dias, ian's wife of three months, who had recently announced SHE was pregnant.

Angel la came into the picture not long after E, N, and machine had actually broken up.

Reporter kate recollet covered the story for the daily beast. He spent hours digging through the curious emails Michelle sent ian during the condo dispute.

One minute she's very too late and thinking him for reminders on her car insurance. The next minute, you know, she's saying that he's same and the antiques.

even after they sign the agreement on the condo, the emails kept coming. E N, got this one on may twenty second. You told me I was your first love, but you did not treat me like the precious perfect treasure I am.

You have sin against god, and I want my power back because he belongs to us, the daughters of god. Then something new and straight started happening. Angela began receiving emails.

too long, rambling emails, saying that, you know, her husband ian doesn't love her, that Michelle is, you know, his one true love, and that he and is cheating on her. He manipulates women SHE Better get out of the picture soon before he hurts her.

These new emails to Angell sounded like Michelle's emails to ian, complete with biblical amateur. But they came from multiple email addresses and resigned Jason ray.

telling Angela that he would always be eve, and that Michelle was ise lila, his truth, and that Angela would never be his one true love.

Then another email to Angela appeared, the subject, cline, die. The message, I hope you are a scared of death tomorrow. Be prepared, don't sleep. Be watchful of the daughters of god, the email continued.

We will steal your child and we will watch as he dies, Angela said when he had looked to see who sent this email, IT was from Michelle harley. You going to understand from Angeles point of view why you should be so rapped? A barrage b.

Males arrived on may thirty first, two thousand sixteen. Be warned, Angela, you've lost. I am going to end you.

You will suffer. I will pray for you the next morning. June first, Angela filed for that restraining order. The one police served at the headley's home IT read in part, miss harley has been emAiling me for over one week, repeatedly threatening my life, my marriage, my safety slider ing, my husband, the rhetorical language used in your email to your x yeah, had a kind of biblical old testament ferocities to IT. So this is the same person.

No comment on that.

But you know, no.

no, no.

Michelle lette met SHE did send fire and brimstone emails to ian, though he was reluctant to discuss them on camera. He later told us IT was a symptom of post traumatic stress disorder, which he blamed on her volatile relationship with ex. But SHE told us he never send any emails to Angela. In fact, mine says SHE didn't .

even know her. I've never heard of her.

I've never .

communicated with her, didn't say where SHE love her. Pick out. I don't know what her job is. I don't know where he works. I know nothing about .

her background or so, he said. Police thought otherwise.

IT is very compelling evidence.

Sergeant dern war was the public information officer for the anaa police department. There was some very vivid, religious, ferocious imagery that was clearly written by Michelle l. Tar x. That seems to be the same kind of emails that are coming to Angela. Did that drive some of your theory about the case?

I can't talk about specifics, but there is clear and convincing evidence to believe that machine hardly was the person who is in.

In the emails. A judge ordered Michelle to cease all contact with Angela and ian, but the emails continued. June six, you will pay. I hope to god you are ready for the pain I will show you than this burn in the fire ery pizz of hell tonight, as by god's law, you will be hurt. Three weeks after the restraining order was filed, police returned to Michelle's parents house.

They have a search point for my devices, and so I hand all my devices over. I get them all the past codes, and he opens up my cell phone.

The officer looked through her email account, check the activity there, then arrested machine for violating the restraining order.

I heard door slamming out in front, and I went on front and I said, what's gone on out here? And the guy said, we just arrested machine.

arrested your Michelle. Yes, he was placed in a holding cell. Her parents posted a bomb to get her out. And after a very long night, they picked her up from the anaho police department.

He was sitting on the steps down in front.

It's one of the stranger days, your life, the strangest but strange days were only beginning.

Coming up from daggers by email to danger at the front door, somebody was posting .

ads online through the gilla saying that they wanted to fulfill its rape fantasy .

when deadline continues.

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June two thousand and sixty Michelle hardly was out on bail living with her parents. Ana ham police suspected Michelle had sent threatening emails to x boyfriend in and his pregnant wife Angela, even though on its face IT didn't make much sense. Young woman who lived in example of good student cheese trying to get an MBA and was .

two sides to every person. And all we're seeing as the evidence that looks very clear that everything is is originating from the shell heavily.

But the case against Michelle went way beyond threatening emails, police said. If he was up to something much more sinister, something stomach touring. IT began in early due about the same time as the deadline on the condo was approaching.

Somebody was posting ads online through register as saying that they wanted to fulfill this rape fantasy.

Rape fantasy is a general I don't think i've ever heard of this.

I D never heard of IT either until this particular case. But apparently, yes, there's a market for IT.

It's a type of personal ad. You can find them on craig list and elsewhere online, men seeking women who want to meet and act out of rape. A woman responded to the ad.

I have been dying to have a rape fantasy occur. If you can fulfill this tonight, please let me know. I am thirty tall, gorgeous and ready.

I have a yorky. I walk every night. Confine me. The email gave an address condo in anheimer where Angela and ian lived on june thirteen.

Angela and ian told police a man showed up at their door expecting to have violent sex with engineer. They told police they sent him away, but other men followed, all invited by email responses to rape fantasy ads. But IT escalate again.

Now, to the point that Angel, a idea, calls, the police department reports that another person had showed up and I had actually tried to rape. r.

Police officers responded to Angeles, nine one one call.

What do they encounter? They encounter a very distraint Angel ideas who says that another person had shown up, and and.

and she's got Operations.

look here, right? Tracked on her neck .

and her shirt torn. This is way the d internet. Mister miner mistier, this is a criminal .

act in most definitely criminal.

Who was inviting mental rape, Angela? Police believe there was no question. IT was Michelle hardly, that's what LED them to arrest Michelle outside her parents home. Angela reported that during the night Michelle spent in jail, SHE received no threatened emails, but then Michelle l made bail. SHE was out.

and almost immediately the emails started again.

So as there are kind of a field here, look, we warnt you about this activity, correct? And it's continuing. correct. This is a very complicated scheme.

Kate, yes.

Daily beast reporter kate Richard tried to unravel the story from her office in new york city. Angela d. Has appeared to be the victim at the center of an increasingly dangerous game.

SHE was afraid for her life. SHE was afraid to go anywhere. SHE felt that he had to abot her whole life. Take down her online profiles in hide.

July eleven, two weeks after michel L. L. Bailed out of jail, a new rate fantasy ad appeared on craigslist and a response once again, the e mail directed the man who placed the add to the home of Angela as, and what would Michelle le's motivation be in doing this campaign?

It's interesting. I mean, there's the fact that there is some sort of a love triangle going on, right? There's two women, one 应该 and there's also the unsold condemning um the condo .

was still a factor in the story。 The bank had not approved in an Angela forma mortgage, so IT was time to sell as agree to, but that wasn't going to happen. According to Michelle father, the x boyfriend was digging in his heals.

not sell the he does not want to move out period. He makes that clear .

on july twelve, two thousand and sixty, even as he remained under investigation for cyber stocking. And worse, Michelle filed a breach of contract lawsuit against ian over the condom. The next day, Angela called police. Another man was outside her condo and ahm detectors found a seventeen year old in the court yard. He told police he was responding .

to a crags list that .

ti a caucus. Was the orange county district .

going to get her off the street? It's hazards to Angela at this point.

Michelle looked like a loose kanna out there.

SHE did capable harm. Absolutely, absolutely.

Police got to work and once again arrested Michelle. Hardly.

it's very hard to see your daughter being placed in handcuffs. And I just kept saying to him, no, no, I can't believe .

that this time IT was much more serious. Michelle was charged with stocking making criminal threats and six counts of attempted rate for directing those men to Angela dias as door. Michelle second arrests got the attention of reporters both in orange county and across the country.

The headline seemed to cookie and convoluted to even be true.

fail. This time was one million dollars. Michelle faced life in prison. Is this rock bottom moment? Three, Michelle.

absolutely. It's the scariest .

moment of my life coming up a princess behind bars.

I stood like a sort .

of thun with no prince charming insight.

I got a death threat letter of those that goes after me. What happens then?

The charges and the headlines were devastating in an article in her hometown paper. The short hand was that Michelle hardly was the psycho x girlfriend from hell, the mover behind a lura and devious plot. Her parents, Michael and Susan, couldn't, wouldn't believe IT there's nothing in character with the mine .

logy have raised not to know it's .

actually one hundred eighty Green. So out of sink with her behavior.

they went to see Michelle on her first day in jail after being charged. Is this going to be a conversation with phones through glass?

There are cells without cages, but she's in a cage to one. You know? I don't know why he always has to be in a cage one, but he does.

Michelle bail was set at a million dollars to get around micon. Susan would have to come up with about ten percent of them. That's one hundred thousand dollars cash. They told their daughter they had enough to do that or to hire a good lawyer. But not both.

You going to fight this and there is no bail, and that's how is.

And you had the money you could had a .

home for dinner. Yeah um IT was pretty tough.

I told my dad, I was scared to death. I don't know gonna en in jail, but I told my danna I was like, I can handle, don't worry about me. Go go to .

attorney and you're .

incarcerate IT. Yep, for potentially the rest of my life.

The girl who loved disneyland, very tale princesses and her morning starbucks said, shed stays behind bars and tough IT out jail house dinner were her new black.

Well, I stood like a sort of thun.

What is your self like?

tiny. They have two bank birds, a table into chairs and then your toilet is actually attached to your thing so everyone can kind of see and so you .

never get any .

privacy is um they wake you for thirty, then they bring your breakfast which is what uh it's usually some sort of grow looking potato math. I don't even know how to describe IT and I .

just not of me. Starbuck.

no starbucks.

While we're talking about food, what's match .

baloney sandwich and really, really nasty belongs I almost didn't eat for the first know, three or four .

days Michelle, the sounds .

of the jail house yeah good luck sleeping in jail um the doors lamming very loud and the women at night, sometimes screaming benches so i'll hear IT at going throughout the jail the population .

of street harden prisoners took a close look at the batik e Young woman from the good home now living in their cell block check check out, especially after that story about her on the local paper got passed around.

After that article, I had women coming up to my cell lore harassing me about IT. I got a death threat letter one point slip under my cell door. What if one of the girls that goes after me? What happens?

Then one of the women who took you under your wing said, you get a tough up girl. You need to develop the sweater.

Yeah, well, aren't I walk like a church mouse? And that's not cool. And he said, you're gona get hurt here because you look weak when you walk.

You need to become scarface.

Yes, yes.

Of course, to the outside world, SHE already was scarface. Kate, rick lay of the daily beast reported on the case.

These were incredibly serious charges that Michelle was facing, file any charges that included attempted forcible rape.

Meanwhile, Michelle's parents were in crisis mode looking for an attorney. You don't have criminal defense attorneys on your speed dial. And yes, we do not.

Mike, Susan wanted the right lawyer to deal with a cybercrime. They also wanted to start working in Michelle's defense right away. Their daughter was in trouble, so they started their own investigation.

Was IT clear to you might that if you going to call your way out of this thing, you've got ta understand the story told by the computers, correct the forensic of this capture. So you got to learn a whole bunch of the other stuff. And I P address is a numeric code that identifies a computer network or an individual device.

My god, copies of all the incriminating emails from the evidence filed without training water. He started going through them with software that traces I, P, addresses, this investigative software that you used to become your own detective. Is that something you've got to go to cal tech to get a copy of as nsa material?

Oh, goal is the the fifteen year old kid material.

As I got results, Susan would organize them.

He would print out on yellow pads of legal paper all the IP addresses, and then I would take all of them. And I put him on a spread sheet. And then we highlighted where certain I P. Addresses were the same, the idea being that this I P.

Addresses is going to go back to a physical location. Yes, if they could trace an email sent from one location and prove Michelle was somewhere else at the same time, IT could be an but to da tony recaught s. IT looked like a bad set of facts for the shell.

happily looking at the emails and a and the pictures and the ads looked like Michelle had. He was just doing this, this terrible thing, stocking and a victimizing of Angela.

The wheels of justice were grinding slowly, and the lives of two Young women were hanging in the baLance.

Coming up, michale gets a break.

He was in .

class and a lawyer with a mission.

This is kind of the case you've .

got to walk school for. This is the .

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Each day in jail was a struggle for Michelle, hardly not just the daily grind, but the death rats, the fear. Living in legal limbo, SHE took comfort writing long letters to her family, trying to convince them, and maybe herself, that he was okay.

July twenty first twenty sixteen, dear moon daddy and Rebecca, my home esty order finally arrived today, so I have paper and decent pencils, among other goods.

Riding has always relaxed me, and since i'm pretty sure this ordeal is the most stressed of my life to date, you can expect to get letters from me. I wanted to send you one positive thing, and one thing I want to do when i'm free, as much for my mood and sanity as for yours. One positive thing I haven't had this much time to read in a long time.

which list a gore, my burger and a glass of red wine, all my love. Michelle.

I hear a lot of you reassuring them .

in that that was exactly what was happening. I didn't want them to worry too much. I didn't want them to be RAID. Um they were already fighting so much on the outside, doing so much work, you know and I wanted them to be proud of what a brave girl they had raised .

but as the weeks turned into a months, her brave front started to crack.

There were mornings when I would wake up and I would open my eyes and I would see the White jail. So a wall and I would think, OK, i'm going to wake up a second time. This is just a and he wasn't IT was for real. I I was starting to feel like I was slipping away.

Your humanity slipped away. Yeah.

he looked absolutely not even close to criminal that you got you. I got pretty good.

Michelle parents hired defense attorney Michael justice to defend their daughter. Juicy felt an incident connection to the headley.

I looked at my shell family and to a largest, and I saw my family. I saw.

I saw a working class family who fiercely definitely their child SHE was a Young, ambitious, NBA student who was nothing but bright eyes and optimistic.

and IT was facing life in prison .

for novice.

No reason.

So this is kind of the case you ve got to moscow for.

This is the reason to becoming a lawyer.

Michelle's mom and dad showed juicy the computer research they've done on the emails. At the heart of the case, Michael harley was convinced they'd found something crucial. Why are Michelle digital fingerprints on this thing?

They're not there is no digital fingerprints whatsoever. IT looks like it's coming from Michelle. IT looks like somebody is trying to make IT look like .

it's coming from Michelle. That's for sure. The hardly spreading IT showed some of the incriminating emails were sent when Michelle l. Could prove he was in a classroom at chapman university.

Here's Michelle at school. She's at chapman and his emails coming and she's in class.

He was in class doing her final course presentation. There's no way she's gonna sending this email.

The hardly thought they had IT proof that Michelle was innocent, but defense attorney justice disagreed. He knew IT would take skillful legal letwin. K.

to convince a district tourney is never going to buy my evidence. A district tourney is going to have to convince themselves that they have evidence which might accidently go inside with what I have.

In fact, police and prosecutors, we're still doing everything they could to link those emails to macho.

We have a very skilled detective who was working on the case, and he was in constant communication with the discount nhis office and trying to piece IT together to help prove case .

and solidify IT for court problem .

IT IT wasn't coming together. These electronic messages were coming um from a from a different place that we couldn't verify that IT was coming from shell harley's .

device IT was a blow to the prosecution case, but there was more evidence than just I P addresses. There was the bad blood between Michelle and ian, the restraining orders, those heroes ing attempted rapes of ions, new wife Angela and that fire and brimstone language of the threatened emails so distinctive and seemingly in Michelle's voice, so that language of religious retribution made .

IT appeared to be a macho. You stand before got on this thing. That's right. And that caused the police and our investigators as well a to look at and say, this is my hell.

Writing one thing was clear, though, the computer forensics had blown a sizeable hole in the prosecution case. Judy seized the moment and worked out a deal. The da would release myself from jail, but he would not drop the charges against her, and the investigation would continue. After eighty eight days, Michelle walked out of jail .

on the outside because of my parents. They were there waiting for me and got my coffee.

I got the good of coffee .

um which oh me and I have been dreaming about that we're so long IT was an .

incredible moment for the heavily a legal Victory but not the end of the road.

He is still in jeopardy SHE still .

charged .

with the same crime and she's .

A H SHE had A N felt like I was so and. Wearing that device, you can still feel like you're an animal. And I just never thinking, how did I get here? I can do anything .

coming up if Michelle wasn't setting the emails, who was and why? The da, as a word for IT diabolical .

le how that word come to you.

Diabolical is something evil.

With every thomp of her heart, Michelle felt he was losing a little part of herself out of jail, but not out of jeopardy. Free to go to a high and coffee shop, but not allowed to remove the ankle bracelet. c.

Trager erupted with this sports bandage because I was so embrace to be wearing that, you know.

but everything was about to change. After a thero search of Michaela's digital devices, investigators concluded the damming emails did not come from them.

We actually have a lab on our own computer for each of slab. And then we have people that are very well trained. And and that's really how this came to formation that we were able to to determine that Michelle hardly wasn't the suspect.

This was momentous after months in jail, after the ankle braces Michelle had lead was cleared.

You are happy, but your emotions are all over the place, because you are kind of coming out of this fog.

Now, police faced a daunting ing new investigation. The suspect could be literally anybody with a cell phone or access to the internet.

We can show where IT was coming from without the service of a search warm and then getting the information from the a net service provider and IT took months.

Police needed critical data from internet providers to confirm the precise times and locations of the cyber attacks. They more than fifty search warrants in court orders during their .

investigation. There's very few cases where we've had to write that many search warns just to get to the bottom line.

to get to the truth. And when they finally started getting the information they need, the results were stunning. The ugly trail of ones and zero seem to show that at least some of the hateful emails we're coming from the condo in anh I the one e and in Michelle had been to corner the one e and and Angela are now living in the condo, suddenly looking like the scene of the crime and the motive all in one.

This is where Angela live, and I don't think that they .

wanted to leave. So if the x girlfriend, crazy psychos, gro friend in the public eye, is incarcerated in a way that resolve some of .

these financial issues, they'll have complete control over the.

And now both of them were suspects in the U. S. Martial and Angela, the pregnant newly wed. In a way that makes more sense if you're looking at conventional motivation that that would be the x boy from idea as .

rather than the woman married exactly.

But the deeper they looked, the more police zeroed in on the woman in and married, and all the bizarre goings on swarm around. One that stood out was Angel's report that someone tried to raper in the garage of the condo you .

have to go to to get to the garage and the garage doors address on IT. So you're the sale and actually founder. That gets me a question.

Then also, there was some surveilLance cameras that were in the area and presumably won't shown someone trying to enter. And you didn't have that. We have that. What about the scene itself when you started questioning whether not this could have happened in her story about how he bought the guy off and compare that to the rather light injuries that he was showing? IT all started looking .

a little bit sketchy. Investigators uncovered more sketchy behavior. Angela seemed to have a troubling history.

We started seeing some of the fragile and things that she's, that she's been involved in shakes, faking a cancer episode, faking a cancer episode to thanks like that.

The da is Angela lied about something else too. SHE was not pregnant with in's child, but IT wasn't the trail of lives that really mattered. IT was the trail of emails that ultimately cracked the case.

IT turned out the email sent from the condo didn't come from a computer at all, but says the D. A. From a cell phone. Angela 效仿， in an already beyond strange case, this turn things up to eleven.

There original victim ended up being their number one suspects.

How's that for a whip?

H, I don't think I do could believe IT .

IT was time. Six months after Michelle hardly was first charged.

Angela dias .

was arrested and jailed. Da, tony, difference.

i'm here to announce the filing, the file complaint against Angel lima ideas, but they were, I district the tourney's office.

There were no charges against ian, the man in the middle, the da said Angela D. S. Was the mastermind and sole actor in an elaborate scheme to portray herself as a victim. SHE had, quite simply, framed Michelle. hardly.

Michelle is accused to be an Angela who turned out to be. Angela pretended be. Mo pretended be.

The charges were just that convoluted. Angela accused of sending herself threaten emails, inviting men to her own home to raper, inflicting injuries on herself and all to put her husband's x gore friend behind bars. What's more, at least for a few months, authorities say SHE succeeded.

When someone who's innocent gets arrested in charge with a crime that's not just a bad day, is a nightmare that needs to be made clear in the media and in cyber space. Miss hardly is an innocent victim of a biology skin.

How that word comes to you? And what did you mean now about diabolical in the scheme?

Diabolical is something evil, is something that that the devil might .

do not to be too clip. Your theory was wrong, but you untangle that.

Is that what happened here? Well, that is right.

You're sorry that the first theory was wrong.

absolutely. You know what's a terrible thing to, uh, accuse an innocent person where .

the apologies enough your accounting authorities doing an effect or walk of shame saying .

we got this terribly wrong I appreciate the apologies, but the apologies don't rebuild your life and the apologies don't undo what's been done. I'll Carry this round for the rest of my life to .

attempt to get justice from a shell. Her lawyer filed a lawsuit against Angela dias dias and the city of in twenty twenty one. The city, without admitting liability, agreed to pay Michelle one million seven hundred ninety five thousand dollars in as and Angela deas reach separate settlements with Michelle and .

police department architecture didn't create the situation, Angel ideas did. We did what we had to do as the circumstances came about and as the evidence presented itself up to including continuing to investigate an exonerating .

a macho in october two thousand seventeen and Andrew appealed guilty to felony charges including kidnapping, false imprisonment, forgery and forgery. SHE was sentenced to five years. D.

S. Does need um not only punishment but does need help. IT appears to be in the courts view, devoid of any sense of eastern or compassionate to others.

And any kind of realization is to the impact that one's actions have on another person's life. And one other thing, Angela loss, besides your freedom, was her husband ian had their marriage. An old alison mark golden and Angeles defensive tourney believed ian deserved .

a closer look. The failure to investigate, act adequately, the role of india and IT is a serious concern.

We reached out to e and hoping to speak to him, but got no response. Turns out federal prosecutors also had questions after investigating his role in the scheme. They charged E, D, S with conspiracy to commit cyberstalking, cyber stalking and perjury.

In march twenty twenty three, the now former U. S. Martial was convicted on all counts and sentenced to ten years. And one one. He's filed an appeal when we last SAT down with Michelle. Her personal struggle was far from over, a struggle to rekindle the spirit of an innocent Young woman whose life was changed forever by something. Well, I I don't think .

there's anything more evil than finding a girl who believes in the best in humanity and who loves other people deeply, and making her question who SHE is, making her question her faith in humanity.

That's all for now. I'm less or hot. Thanks for joining us.

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