Influencer Crimes | Kat Torres (Human Trafficking), Maxim Lyutyi (Murder), Taylor Frankie Paul (Domestic Violence)

True Crime Society

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🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Timestamps:

(5:27) - Wade Wilson supporters strike again
(9:18) - Karen Read Trial 2 coming Jan. 2025
(10:46) - Chris Watts grasps at relevancy
(16:64) - Influencers

The True Crime Society Podcast is back after a week off!

In this episode, we discuss three very different cases of disgraced influencers.

At her peak, Kat Torres had over 1m followers on Instagram. She was linked to celebrities including Leonardo DiCaprio. Following ‘life-coaching sessions’, Kat forced multiple women to engage in sex work and they were forced to give her thousands of dollars of their money. Over 20 women have come forward and said that Kat preyed on them. She has recently been sentenced to prison for human trafficking offences.
Russian influencer Maxim Lyutyi wanted his newborn son to be ‘Superman’. He refused medical treatment for the child and believed that the baby could survive on a ‘diet’ of berries and sunlight. The baby only lived for one month and weighed 3.5lbs when he died. Maxim is now imprisoned for his son’s death.
Utah Mormon ‘MomTok’ influencer Taylor Frankie Paul has 4.4m followers on Tiktok and 360k on instagram. After swinging and infidelity allegations, her marriage broke down in 2022. By 2023, she was in a new relationship. In February that year, police were called to her home by a neighbor. While intoxicated, Taylor had allegedly assaulted her new partner. During her rage, she threw a stool which struck her young daughter in the head. Taylor has spoken about the events and said ‘As much as I wish that night had went differently, I felt like hitting rock bottom actually helped me in some ways. Made me seek help that I wasn’t getting.”

You can read our blog for these cases - https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2024/07/24/disgraced-influencers/

In this episode, we also discuss updates in the Chris Watts and Wade Wilson murder cases.

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0:00.0	The True Crime Society Podcast contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences.
0:05.0	Listen or discretion is advised.
0:07.0	If you'd like to skip the intro, please refer to the time stamp listed in the episode description.
0:13.0	Thank you. What's up guys? Welcome back to another episode of the True Crime Society
0:34.2	podcast with Stephanie and Olivia. I mean right now it is July 25th with this
0:40.7	episode will be coming out in August sometime I think because I will
0:46.0	have just gotten back from vacation so hopefully I had a lovely time and
0:50.2	hopefully a bunch of views signed up for Patreon so that you didn't miss us too much and you listen to all of our really great bonus episodes that we do every week as well because there's a lot of really good topics that sometimes aren't long enough for like a full episode,
1:05.0	even though we've been stretching them out still to like 45-15 minutes, which is another full episode, basically.
1:11.6	So hopefully you guys check that out I mean there's
1:15.1	not a ton to chat about really especially since this will come out later and we
1:20.8	feel like this episode will be a little long.
1:24.1	It's quite a few updates today on past ones we've discussed as well but yeah maybe not as
1:28.7	much chit-chat today. Yeah, hopefully the updates are still, this should be still relevant, because it doesn't seem like anything else will happen with them anytime soon.
1:39.0	But I mean, for me in terms of life, I'm just trying to get ready to go on vacation. I think the week before you go on vacation is always so stressful because on top of regular life which is stressful you're also like okay I'm not going to be home, I have to clean,
1:54.7	that's the house together. I feel like a disgusting person for leaving my poor baby
1:58.9	kitties alone for a week, so I need to give them extra attention and just trying to get everything together while also trying to do the
2:07.2	podcast Instagram regular job all that fun fun times. Yeah, and I'm really, I said this in another episode, but I'm already dreading when I come back from vacation and going back to work and I haven't even left yet.
2:24.0	I know there's nothing worse.
2:25.0	Like I just try not think about it because you should at least enjoy, like the last day is
2:28.3	always hard because you're like, fire, I'm going to go back to real life tomorrow.
2:31.3	Yeah, it sucks.
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