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Dark Arenas

Episode 12: Devil in the Details

Dark Arenas

audiochuck

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Some federal agents' nine-to-five job is reviewing thousands of images and videos of child sex abuse material. Their meticulous work in this Dark Arena exposes details hidden within the images that help track and catch predators. In this episode, Delia talks one-on-one with the FBI agent whose best tool against child sex predators is the predator.

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The content of dark arenas includes topics and subject matter that may not be suitable for all audiences.

0:06.0

The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the individuals participating in the podcast

0:13.0

and do not represent those of audio chuck or its employees.

0:17.0

Information discussed by the host and interview ease includes content related to crimes against children, abuse, acts of terrorism and violence.

0:26.0

Listener discretion is advised.

0:31.0

Imagine you're putting a puzzle together, but all of the individual pieces are grainy and they're dark and pixelated.

0:40.0

Many of them look identical. The majority of the colors are dark tones or neutral.

0:45.0

There's few hints to tell you what exactly the master image is supposed to be.

0:50.0

But with a little effort, you begin to slowly make out what it is.

0:54.0

You finally get enough assembled to realize that the individual slivers put together don't make a beautiful image at all.

1:03.0

The picture you're staring at, the one you've spent hours piecing together, is of a child being sexually abused.

1:11.0

The suspect in the picture has no fear. They want whoever views this image to know they hold the power in the scenario playing out in the grainy dark pixels.

1:22.0

But you don't care what their motivation is. You care about one thing and one thing only, finding them and rescuing the victim.

1:31.0

But that's going to take work.

1:34.0

So as hard as it is, you return to the image, put your head down and get back to work, meticulously piecing more and more of the slivers together.

1:45.0

You've got a long way to go, and there are more clues to find.

1:50.0

Clues hidden within the image that will lead you straight to the crime scene.

1:55.0

After all, don't they always say the devil is in the details?

2:00.0

Right now, you've never known that to be more true.

2:03.0

In today's episode, we're going into the dark arena of what it's like to parse through child sexual abuse material for a living.

2:15.0

We're going into the dark arena of what it's like to parse through child sexual abuse material for a living.

2:20.0

We're going into the dark arena of what it's like to parse through child sexual abuse material for a living.

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