EP5 - The Questions Keep Multiplying
From BETH'S DEAD
In this discussion, Monica Padman, Elizabeth Lame, and Andy Rosen delve into the unsettling investigation surrounding a male East Coast professor in his 60s, who is revealed as a predator linked to fraud involving someone named Beth. The hosts analyze how their discovery process unraveled through mishandled online communications and a surprising connection to a family's real estate records, leading them to question the unexpected motives behind this troubling case.
Key Takeaways
- Double spaces after periods? Old-school typing exposes our predator—a 60s professor hiding behind digital personas.
- A male East Coast professor, caught by his own tweets, joins Beth, Betty, and Beth's brother online.
- Old-school typing leads to old-school deceit—an unexpected player in a family's eerie secret.
- The predator's sloppy trail of frantic tweets and emails leads to unexpected familial entanglement.
- A writer's sensibility and tech skills expose misogyny masked by fictitious characters trolling truth.
Who is mentioned in this episode?
8 people come up, including male East Coast professor in his 60s (unnamed), his son (unnamed), Jason (alias used by catfish as 'Beth's brother').
- male East Coast professor in his 60s (unnamed) (Person)
- his son (unnamed) (Person)
- Jason (alias used by catfish as 'Beth's brother') (Person)
- Tammy (Person)
- LAPD detective (unnamed) (Person)
- Francisco (Person)
- Cameron Mai (Person)
- Andrea Tamingus (Person)
Sponsors of this episode
- Patreon.com/bestdeed (Sponsor)
Mentioned in this episode
- Nobody's Listening, Right? (Company)
- Parasocial Relationship (Concept)
- Los Angeles Police Department (Company)
- LAPD Department of Cyber Crimes (Company)
- duckbrigade.com (Company)
- Totally Lame (Company)
- HTML (Concept)
- harassment (Concept)
- scam (Concept)
- podcasts (as an intimate medium) (Concept)
- real estate records (Concept)
- forensic linguistics (writing-style inference) (Concept)
- misogyny / misogynistic lens (Concept)
- Oslo (Location)
- ethics of platforming perpetrators (Concept)
- mass shooting media coverage (naming perpetrators) (Concept)
- Melrose Place (Concept)
- double spaces after periods (Concept)
- Beth's Dead (Company)
- seizing computers (Concept)