A few years back we had a family contact us, from Canada, to locate the boyfriend of their sister (Jill, not her real name) . The "boyfriend" (Jack, also not his real name) apparently had been contacting Jill for 5 years via the internet, with most recently, FaceBook. Mind you, Jill is only 17 years of age at this time, so Jack and Jill have been conversating via phone and the internet since she was 12 and they never met in person.
The issue now is that Jack has invited Jill to come to a little town in Wisconsin to finally meet. Well, Jill's sister and her husband were not too thrilled with this prospect. After all, Jill is underage, never met this guy in person, his FaceBook wall shows he looks like he's Emo (appealing to young girls, not adults), and now she wants to run away to meet him?! Running away was going to be Jill's option if her family was going to be "unreasonable" and not see it her way.
Hence, this is where we, Magnum Investigations Plus, come in the picture. Jill's sister and brother-in-law call us and ask us if we can find anything out about this guy. They give us Jack's Facebook picture and wall info and best of all, his home address.
Preliminarily, we check all our data bases to see what we can find out about Jack. He is supposed to be about Jill's age so this shouldn't be hard since we also knew kids his age in high school. The name is not familiar to the area and when the data bases come up negative, we try kids he should know in school. Not one teen we talked to, knew Jack. Finally we go to the address and ask for Jack. No one there by that name. Just a mom and her teen daughter. Back to the drawing board, questioning locals, neighbors, and also checking with local businesses to see if anyone heard of Jack or of anyone with his last name. Again, all negative results.
Jill's family double checked the address and believe it is correct. We asked if there is any way Jill could have been talking to a girl? Jill's brother in law says no way, because he had heard Jack on the phone with Jill.
So, we once again go back to the address. This time we tell the mom, this is serious, and a child is leaving her country to come to her house, so if she knows anything, anything at all, she better spill the beans or the police will be the next ones at her door to question her. All of a sudden her memory starts to come back to her. She yells into her house to her daughter, and says, "Isn't that girl you talk to online named Jill?" The daughter answers, "Yes"! The mom says they were online friends for some time but has no idea who Jack is. She goes over and over again, that there is no boy at the house who could be Jack, but did say she encouraged her daughter to talk to Jill, which we found a bit odd. "Mom" also starts to get nervous and wonders if the police are still coming. I asked her why she would be worried if she did nothing wrong. I also suggest to her to tell her daughter to make sure she tells Jill not to come, if that is her intention. I said if Jill leaves Canada, the first place the police will come, is right to her doorstep.
We then call Jill's family and tell them that Jack is in fact a girl that Jill has been talking to. The only logical explanation for the male voice is that they either had a boy around to talk to Jill or used a voice changer which is really easy to obtain, even on a computer, nowadays.
Why did they carry it on this long? Was the mom involved? Maybe she was trying to lure the girl here for some sick purpose. Of course all the pictures on FaceBook were fake.
Jill was devastated and didn't believe it at first. She confronted Jack and said she knew the "police" were coming to "his" house if "he" didn't tell the truth. Jack finally did admit to the lie and that he in fact was a she and it was all a joke.
We later talked to Jill on the phone, so not only would she understand what harm could have come to her but also let her know that her family loved her and that's why they hired us.
Moral of the story here kids, don't think that someone wouldn't go to the trouble of carrying on a prank or lie for that long. This may not even have been a prank. It may have been an adult trying to lure kids to her house and involved her daughter to go along with it. 5 years! We are just glad it was stopped before Jill could have ruined or even lost her life.
Lori
Magnum Investigations Plus
715-524-9044
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