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25-year-old Kevin Bacon
is a hopeless romantic...
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...looking for that someone special
in his small Midwestern town.
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Kevin wanted to be someone's person,
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but he got friend-zoned a lot.
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So, until Prince Charming shows up,
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he turns to dating apps
for that feeling of connection.
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Kevin would meet them,
maybe hook up multiple times,
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and then that was it.
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But when Kevin doesn't come home...
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Why is his clothing in the car?
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...the secrets kept hidden in his phone...
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He asked, "Am I gonna be safe?"
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...just might link his search for love
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to the search for a killer.
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I know that there is
real, true evil out there,
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and this was an example of that.
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She solved her own murder
from beyond the grave.
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The fitness app on the phone.
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It was overwhelming evidence.
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♪ I've been haunted
by the visions ♪
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♪ That I've seen
with my own eyes ♪
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♪ And the only way to find you ♪
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♪ Is to go beneath the lies ♪
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She did help catch this killer.
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♪ I wanna take you to
this place I know ♪
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♪ I wanna take you to... ♪
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It's Christmas Eve 2019
in Swartz Creek, Michigan.
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♪ I wanna take you to this place I know ♪
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While this quaint rural village
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in the shadow of Flint, Michigan,
is celebrating the season,
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25-year-old hairdresser Kevin Bacon
walks out his front door
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and vanishes.
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His roommate, Michelle, is the first
to realize that something is up.
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My name is Michelle Meyers.
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I was Kevin's best friend,
roommate, confidante.
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When I woke up in the morning,
I got a call and a text from his sister,
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who had asked where Kevin was.
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Since it was Christmas morning,
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he was supposed to have
breakfast with his family.
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This is unlike Kevin to not
show up on Christmas morning,
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and to not text me anything
and let me know,
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like, where he is.
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I called several times and got no answer.
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Kevin was super punctual,
so him not being there,
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I was a little bit,
you know, weirded out.
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Kevin's connection to Michelle
and his family is strong,
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and if he isn't answering
either of them,
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something must be up.
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So, as the afternoon passes
with still no word from Kevin,
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his worried parents call police.
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I'm Detective Sergeant Joshua Dirkse.
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I work for the Michigan State Police
out of the Flint post.
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Metro Police Department took
the original missing person report
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and started the investigation looking into
potentially where he could be.
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Who his associates are, who he had
been talking to, where he had gone.
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Investigators don't know
much about Kevin,
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but they do know the holidays are tough.
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Kevin could have voluntarily
disappeared for a little while.
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People do that all the time,
especially around the holidays.
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They just, they need to get away.
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All police know
is that Kevin is an adult
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who didn't show up for breakfast.
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That's not necessarily
a cause for concern,
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but Kevin's loved ones just know
there's something wrong.
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♪ Chasing shadows out our windows... ♪
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I've known Kevin since he moved
to Swartz Creek in 4th grade.
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We knew each other, we were friends,
and kind of hit it off more
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as we got into middle school.
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And then, by the time we graduated,
we were, like, best friends.
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♪ Chasing shadows ♪
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He was just like, I don't wanna say weird,
but like, the good kind of weird.
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Like, I'm weird, and he's weird,
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so we just clicked in
our weirdness together.
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He was an all-around just bright light
that, you know, everybody really needed.
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Kevin was one of my best friends.
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Kevin was tall, bald...
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and always had nails
and makeup on.
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He cared about the way he looked,
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and I think that he liked making
other people feel that same way.
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He was big on tattoos,
and he had some beautiful artwork.
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"Beauty killer" across his chest,
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'cause that was
Jeffree Star's cosmetic line.
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He had a couple Taylor Swift ones
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and a couple of Lady Gaga ones also.
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Man, I'm like, "I'm so jealous! I haven't
gotten a tattoo in, like, two years!
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I don't have the money anymore."
He's like, "I don't either, but...
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it makes me feel good."
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He had a really big personality.
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He was a lot of fun. Big heart, too.
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Anything you needed help with,
he was there.
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Kevin may have
been smiling on the outside,
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but inside, he often
struggled with his sexuality
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and his search for
connections with others.
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♪ Breathing in, breathing out ♪
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In high school, even if I think he knew
deep down that "I'm gay,"
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I don't think he felt like
he could even admit it to himself.
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And we, like, tried to make him
feel comfortable about that.
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Finding acceptance
with your friends is one thing.
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-Finding someone to share
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the rest of your life with
is something else.
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And he often discussed the struggle
with his good friend, LeRae.
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Kevin was looking for love.
He wanted to be in a relationship.
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Kevin wanted to be
someone's person.
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He would put all
of his feelings out there,
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but they were never returned
from the other side.
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If that lasting
connection is out of reach,
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at least there are plenty of guys eager
for a hookup on the dating apps.
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He got friend-zoned a lot,
so then he would go look
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for a quick fix on one of the sites.
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The last time Michelle saw Kevin,
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he was getting ready
for a hot date with a new guy.
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A lot of people do date online.
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And by the time Kevin
moved in with me,
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he was pretty comfortable
meeting men on the dating apps.
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♪ Coming for you, coming for you,
coming for you, coming for you ♪
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Kevin would meet them, they'd hook up,
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maybe they'd chat,
maybe sometimes befriend each other,
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or they'd maybe hook up multiple times,
and then that was it.
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All Michelle knows is that Kevin was going
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to meet someone
on Christmas Eve.
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She has no idea who that is.
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Kevin told me he was going to meet
with a guy in Swartz Creek.
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He just said,
"Hey, I'm going to meet with this guy,
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and I'll be back later."
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This is where Kevin was last seen.
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We had a Nest Doorbell
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that captured footage of
him leaving our house.
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He went straight to his car,
and then-- and that was it.
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Kevin's parents know he's gay,
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but they don't know about
his online dating habits.
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And Kevin wants to keep it that way.
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But it's now been nearly 20 hours
since Michelle last heard from him,
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and she feels she has no choice.
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It put me in a very tight spot
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because I don't know how to say
that he was meeting up
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with a stranger online
and hooking up with them,
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because his--
at this point, like, his--
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his family didn't know
any of that stuff at all.
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Your call has been forwarded
to an automatic voice message system.
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Michelle puts Kevin's safety
before his secrets.
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So, I texted Kevin, and I just told him,
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"I'm really sorry,
but I don't have a choice."
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♪ There's no turning back now ♪
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"I'm gonna have
to tell them that you've met
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with a stranger and some details
about your lifestyle."
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♪ There's no turning back now ♪
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Kevin's father, Carl,
rushes over to Michelle's
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to find out what she knows.
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I told Kevin's dad
he was meeting with somebody
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on a dating app for a hookup.
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He didn't really know about Kevin
being more sexually active.
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It was kind of like an awkward
conversation, I guess.
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Michelle tells police
about Kevin's mystery hookup, too.
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And they get to work
figuring out who he is.
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But at the moment,
they're more focused on Kevin's past
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and his history of self-harm.
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We knew that he had
struggled with some depression
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and had suicidal ideations.
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You know, a lot of times,
holidays can bring that on.
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Kevin's struggles with depression
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are something his friends
are all too aware of.
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I remember in early high school,
I would look at Kevin,
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and I'd see marks on
his arms from cutting.
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We would ask Kevin
if he had been seeing a therapist
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or if that was a possibility.
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And it was difficult
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because just money was tight financially
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for him and his family.
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It all boils over
into a suicide attempt in 2018.
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Kevin sent me a text.
He had cut himself quite bad.
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And then, he did tell me
that he had overdosed.
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And then, his mother contacted me
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and told me that he was
admitted to the hospital.
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Alarm bells go off for investigators.
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Did Kevin's depression
take over again?
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We are trying to follow up.
There's been no indication
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that anything tragic
has happened to Kevin.
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Kevin did in the past suffer
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from some mental health struggles
and had been suicidal.
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While detectives are working
through all potential leads,
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they get an unexpected call
from Kevin's parents.
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They've been driving around town
looking for Kevin themselves
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and they just found something troubling.
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Kevin Bacon's vehicle
was found by his parents
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in the strip mall on Miller Road,
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approximately a mile and a half
from his residence.
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What the investigators
discover inside the car
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turns this holiday into a horror.
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25-year-old Kevin Bacon
goes missing on Christmas Day.
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His history of self-harm
has his family and friends worried,
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and the discovery of his car
in a strip mall parking lot
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does little to ease their minds.
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His parents were concerned,
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so they started driving around.
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Because it's Christmas,
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all these parking lots are vacant
at these stores.
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So, his car kinda stuck out
like a sore thumb.
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And his mom pulled in and saw the car,
reported it to police.
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Shortly after his vehicle was found,
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the police responded to there,
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and went through
Kevin's vehicle.
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What's inside is shocking and confusing.
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His wallet, his keys,
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and his neatly folded clothes.
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Why is his clothing in the car,
and where is he?
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The clothes match
what Kevin was wearing
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when last seen on his home cam.
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It was just getting worse,
'cause it's like,
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Kevin wouldn't leave his clothes
and everything behind.
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If Kevin committed self-harm,
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why would he leave his clothes?
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But more concerning
is the discovery
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that Kevin left his cell phone
in the car as well.
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That's really alarming,
because in today's age,
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most people carry
their cell phones on them.
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Why is Kevin's phone in the car?
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It's Christmas in Michigan,
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and he couldn't have
wandered off far in the cold.
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The police search the area
and come up empty,
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so they turn
to his phone for clues
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and any insight into
Kevin's life it may provide.
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Having the phone would help.
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You can see who he's been talking to,
leading up to him going missing.
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But of course,
Kevin's phone has a passcode.
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Investigators need a warrant
and a forensic expert to unlock it.
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And that's gonna take time.
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But time is not a luxury they have.
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So, investigators turn to
Kevin's friends for help.
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Kevin's car was found here,
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and then the, the detectives
called us down here.
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Until we found the car, I was kind of--
I was kind of feeling like
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there was still a chance that
maybe he was just somewhere.
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But actually seeing
the car and Kevin's clothes
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and everything in there,
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things started to feel
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that something had
really had gone wrong.
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I remember the-- So, the detective
approached me with Kevin's phone.
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And then I said that,
"I think I know the code.
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I'm pretty certain I can unlock it."
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They handed me the phone over.
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I put in passcode.
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And it worked, first try.
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Once the passcode
was correctly accessed
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and his phone was unlocked,
the phone was transferred
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to the Computer Crime Scene unit
of the Michigan State Police.
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While investigators pick apart
Kevin's phone for clues,
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Michelle conducts her own
investigation with Kevin's dad.
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They go through his computer,
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hoping they can find the identity
of his Christmas hookup.
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Christmas night, we were up
pretty much all night
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just trying to log in on everything.
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I had, like, some of his
emails and passwords.
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Kevin's dad also had
some passwords to try,
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like, just to see if we could
get in on his laptop,
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potentially get on iMessage
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and try to see anything from there.
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We got into pretty much
every dating app that Kevin had.
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The messages are either
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nothing or very little,
or it had nothing to do with the meetup.
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We could not find anything.
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It was hard because, you know,
my thought was that
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wherever he is, he's in a bad situation.
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Michelle isn't waiting for the police
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to figure out where Kevin is
or who he's with.
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She starts compiling her own list
of men Kevin has dated.
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Kevin met with
a lot of married men
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that did not want
their families knowing
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about what they were doing.
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And she remembers one with whom
Kevin seemed to have a special connection.
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Kevin had been meeting
with a guy named Chad.
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He had met with him multiple times,
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and it got to become a more
emotional relationship.
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♪ How will we know it's time ♪
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Kevin's dream was, you know,
to find a partner,
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um, find a man that he could marry.
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♪ I try to heal ♪
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I think Kevin wanted
for them to be, like, official,
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or something at some point.
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They had a great time,
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and I guess Kevin had asked,
like, if they-- what they were.
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And he was like,
"Oh, I just look at you like a friend."
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Kevin was crushed.
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But now,
Michelle can't help but wonder
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if somehow Chad
was back in Kevin's life.
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It might have something to do
with whatever happened to Kevin.
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Michelle shares the name
with investigators.
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We were able to, to get
a name of a person.
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Now, we can start investigating
who that person is.
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It's now almost two days
since Kevin went missing.
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And as investigators consider
the different men in Kevin's life,
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his phone gives them their first lead
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on the identity
of his mysterious Christmas hookup.
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Kevin had taken screenshots
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of a chat log of a dating app
that Kevin had used.
295
00:17:25,963 --> 00:17:28,757
And what was found was that
Kevin was communicating
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with a male,
and the messages between them
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appeared to show that Kevin
and this unidentified male
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were gonna meet up
on Christmas Eve.
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The screenshots confirm
that Kevin was going on a date.
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Not with Chad, but with someone
new and anonymous.
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And they reveal
that even Kevin was concerned
302
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that this meetup might
go horribly wrong.
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Kevin asked the male,
"You're gonna keep me safe, correct?"
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Now the race is on to find out
who this mysterious person is...
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...before his family's worst
nightmare comes true.
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25-year-old Kevin Bacon
is looking for a special connection.
307
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But right now, his friends
and family are looking for him
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after he goes missing
on Christmas morning.
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♪ Your fall is mine ♪
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But investigators just
got access to his phone,
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and screenshots Kevin took hint that
he was so concerned for his safety.
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♪ You'll never know ♪
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Kevin's text messages
were pretty specific,
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pretty detailed.
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They were talking about role-play
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that was gonna happen between him
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and this individual from
the dating app that he was talking with.
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They were talking about
taking clothes off,
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having nothing with him,
none of his belongings,
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leaving it in his car, locking it up,
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and then getting in the vehicle
with this other individual.
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It's all part of the pre-meetup ritual
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that's part of the BDSM lifestyle.
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My name is Rachel Prenzler.
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I'm an outpatient therapist.
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The majority of my clients
are queer or trans, LGBTQ+.
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And also, I see a lot of
non-normative relationships,
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so polyamorous, BDSM, kink.
329
00:19:18,617 --> 00:19:22,746
Kevin was looking for a connection,
but also fulfilling a fantasy,
330
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a sexual encounter
based on a fantasy.
331
00:19:26,959 --> 00:19:30,295
When I was reading that text,
there were no red flags,
332
00:19:30,379 --> 00:19:34,132
and you know, I could have
saw myself in that situation.
333
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It's all about trust and consent.
334
00:19:38,804 --> 00:19:42,015
We call it playing with someone, right?
Or setting up a scene.
335
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So, before you do that,
you have to sit down with each other
336
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and talk about, like,
your boundaries, right?
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Like, what are you wanting
to get out of this?
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So, it's very planned out.
339
00:19:53,193 --> 00:19:58,198
Then, the screenshots give
investigators their first real lead --
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a profile photo and a name
of the guy Kevin was meeting.
341
00:20:02,327 --> 00:20:04,454
His nickname on this mobile app
was Olykos.
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00:20:06,748 --> 00:20:07,958
Kevin asked him...
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00:20:09,543 --> 00:20:11,920
"You're gonna keep me safe, correct?"
344
00:20:12,004 --> 00:20:15,007
And Olykos indicated that yes,
he would keep him safe.
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00:20:17,593 --> 00:20:19,469
It's a huge lead.
346
00:20:19,553 --> 00:20:22,472
But like most things online,
347
00:20:22,556 --> 00:20:26,351
Olykos probably isn't
this guy's real name.
348
00:20:26,435 --> 00:20:28,770
And it doesn't appear
on any police database.
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00:20:29,813 --> 00:20:33,483
Who is he?
Where is he?
350
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And does he know anything
about where Kevin is?
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For answers, investigators turn
to the screenshot image
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of Olykos on Kevin's phone.
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00:20:43,452 --> 00:20:44,745
With that information,
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00:20:44,828 --> 00:20:47,372
in trying to identify who Olykos was,
355
00:20:47,456 --> 00:20:51,335
the Computer Crimes Unit
sent the image of Olykos
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00:20:51,418 --> 00:20:54,004
to our facial recognition unit
in Lansing.
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00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:58,217
One thing's for sure, he isn't Chad,
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00:20:58,300 --> 00:21:02,930
or any of the other men whose names
Michelle had given to the investigators.
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00:21:03,013 --> 00:21:04,932
It was definitely a race against time.
360
00:21:05,015 --> 00:21:07,559
We needed to decipher
who he was talking to.
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00:21:10,979 --> 00:21:13,190
Michelle isn't going to wait around
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00:21:13,273 --> 00:21:15,025
for the police
to solve Kevin's case.
363
00:21:16,068 --> 00:21:18,946
I put together a search party
with his family.
364
00:21:19,947 --> 00:21:21,323
We had several news stations,
365
00:21:21,406 --> 00:21:25,035
and the posts had gotten,
I guess viral, in a sense.
366
00:21:25,118 --> 00:21:27,496
Time is of essence.
If Kevin's alive somewhere,
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00:21:27,579 --> 00:21:29,998
and he's obviously in
an unsafe situation,
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00:21:30,082 --> 00:21:31,625
we need to work fast.
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00:21:31,708 --> 00:21:33,669
♪ Walk away ♪
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00:21:33,752 --> 00:21:37,381
So, this is the park where
we kind of all met and gathered.
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00:21:38,757 --> 00:21:41,844
We had about
80 to 100 people coming out,
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uh, just to kind of break apart
into as many groups as possible
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and cover as much
ground as possible.
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Right here.
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♪ I write that song, that song ♪
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00:21:55,774 --> 00:21:57,526
♪ Always something, something ♪
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00:21:57,609 --> 00:21:59,319
Like, I could just remember,
you know, looking over,
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00:21:59,403 --> 00:22:01,196
making sure there was
nothing in the river,
379
00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:03,156
or just looking through trees,
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00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:07,202
trying to find some little symbol
that he was in this area.
381
00:22:08,871 --> 00:22:10,873
But we honestly--
we never came up with anything.
382
00:22:15,794 --> 00:22:19,047
The search may have come up empty,
383
00:22:19,131 --> 00:22:21,800
but the social media buzz pays off.
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00:22:21,884 --> 00:22:24,761
♪ They're coming out ♪
385
00:22:24,845 --> 00:22:28,557
That night, Michelle gets some
unexpected information
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00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:30,767
that raises even more red flags.
387
00:22:30,851 --> 00:22:33,103
♪ Don't let them catch you ♪
388
00:22:33,187 --> 00:22:35,772
I got a message
from one of my friends saying,
389
00:22:35,856 --> 00:22:38,358
"Hey, there's been
an individual in our town.
390
00:22:38,442 --> 00:22:41,945
"They've had people escape their basement.
It was in the news.
391
00:22:43,363 --> 00:22:45,449
Like, this guy's really strange."
392
00:22:45,532 --> 00:22:47,534
♪ Too late to think ♪
393
00:22:48,452 --> 00:22:51,205
And it was a screenshot
of a conversation
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00:22:51,288 --> 00:22:52,623
between two people,
395
00:22:53,874 --> 00:22:56,210
and they were
discussing this weird stuff
396
00:22:56,293 --> 00:22:59,171
has been happening at this guy's house.
What if?
397
00:23:00,506 --> 00:23:04,718
And they sent a screenshot
of his Facebook profile.
398
00:23:07,763 --> 00:23:10,224
The incident the tipster is referring to
399
00:23:10,307 --> 00:23:12,601
just happened four weeks earlier,
400
00:23:12,684 --> 00:23:15,395
and not very far
from where Kevin lives.
401
00:23:15,479 --> 00:23:19,191
The responding officer that night
was Robert Viviano.
402
00:23:20,567 --> 00:23:23,529
My name is
Detective Trooper Robert Viviano.
403
00:23:23,612 --> 00:23:25,572
I'm a detective
with the State Police.
404
00:23:25,656 --> 00:23:27,908
I'm currently on
an undercover assignment
405
00:23:27,991 --> 00:23:29,618
for the State Police right now.
406
00:23:30,953 --> 00:23:35,958
In 2019, I was assigned
to Shiawassee County.
407
00:23:36,041 --> 00:23:39,336
It's kind of more of a rural area.
408
00:23:40,629 --> 00:23:41,880
Lots of farms.
409
00:23:42,923 --> 00:23:46,260
In November of 2019,
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00:23:46,343 --> 00:23:48,595
a call came over the radio
411
00:23:48,679 --> 00:23:50,681
that someone was
running down the road,
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00:23:51,807 --> 00:23:54,643
wearing a kilt,
covered in blood,
413
00:23:54,726 --> 00:23:57,855
and was knocking on people's doors,
yelling for help.
414
00:23:57,938 --> 00:23:59,940
We made contact with this individual
415
00:24:00,023 --> 00:24:04,236
who said that he had
escaped from this house...
416
00:24:06,071 --> 00:24:08,073
...pointed out the house,
417
00:24:08,156 --> 00:24:10,450
and said that he had
been held captive.
418
00:24:16,290 --> 00:24:18,458
We made contact with
this individual at this house,
419
00:24:18,542 --> 00:24:22,087
who turned out to be a gentleman
by the name of Mark Latunski.
420
00:24:27,259 --> 00:24:30,554
And he was also dressed
in nothing but a kilt,
421
00:24:30,637 --> 00:24:33,432
a leather kilt, which we found strange.
422
00:24:34,308 --> 00:24:38,103
After talking to Mark and this subject
423
00:24:38,187 --> 00:24:40,647
that had quote-unquote
"escaped" from this house...
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00:24:42,107 --> 00:24:46,612
we thought it was some type of
sexual role-play kinda gone bad.
425
00:24:46,695 --> 00:24:48,989
Someone got scared and ran
outta the house kind of thing,
426
00:24:49,072 --> 00:24:50,866
which is kinda how Mark described it.
427
00:24:52,409 --> 00:24:56,246
So, we just kinda took it at that.
Nobody wanted to press charges.
428
00:24:57,247 --> 00:24:59,208
There's nothing else
that we could really do
429
00:24:59,291 --> 00:25:02,085
other than document it
and kinda leave it at that.
430
00:25:03,837 --> 00:25:06,173
The incident is about 10 miles away
431
00:25:06,256 --> 00:25:08,050
from where Kevin's car was found.
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00:25:09,176 --> 00:25:12,721
As Michelle learns more
about it from her online tipsters,
433
00:25:12,804 --> 00:25:14,848
her heart begins to race.
434
00:25:14,932 --> 00:25:18,268
I was going 100 miles an hour,
and I can't think of anything else.
435
00:25:19,353 --> 00:25:23,148
What if this ends up
being the person that did it?
436
00:25:23,232 --> 00:25:27,736
So, I gave the screenshot
of the profile to the detectives.
437
00:25:30,656 --> 00:25:32,074
With this new information,
438
00:25:32,157 --> 00:25:35,035
the detectives start
investigating Latunski
439
00:25:35,118 --> 00:25:37,913
and discover this isn't
the first scary incident
440
00:25:37,996 --> 00:25:40,040
reported at his house.
441
00:25:40,123 --> 00:25:44,253
A man known only as James
had a similar terrifying journey.
442
00:25:44,336 --> 00:25:46,046
A person named James
had been to that house
443
00:25:46,129 --> 00:25:48,882
in the fall of 2019,
444
00:25:48,966 --> 00:25:51,718
had been to the house with Latunski.
445
00:25:51,802 --> 00:25:54,346
They had different role-play
and scenes they had.
446
00:25:55,222 --> 00:25:57,140
But at one point, it went too far.
447
00:25:58,183 --> 00:26:00,185
And James was scared,
448
00:26:01,228 --> 00:26:03,230
thought that Latunski
was gonna hurt him,
449
00:26:04,439 --> 00:26:05,983
thought he was being
held against his will,
450
00:26:06,066 --> 00:26:07,609
was able to escape at one point.
451
00:26:09,778 --> 00:26:12,114
Running down the road,
calling 911, asking for help.
452
00:26:19,621 --> 00:26:21,582
When the police learn the full extent
453
00:26:21,665 --> 00:26:24,334
of James' troubling tale,
454
00:26:24,418 --> 00:26:27,754
they fear that Kevin may
have met a similar fate.
455
00:26:34,845 --> 00:26:38,307
It's been three days since
Kevin left his house on Christmas Eve.
456
00:26:38,390 --> 00:26:42,227
He was looking for love,
or at least something like it,
457
00:26:42,311 --> 00:26:44,479
and hasn't been seen since.
458
00:26:46,523 --> 00:26:48,859
But thanks to screenshots
Kevin took of a conversation
459
00:26:48,942 --> 00:26:50,944
that he saved on his phone,
460
00:26:51,028 --> 00:26:54,656
investigators know who he was meeting up
with on Christmas Eve.
461
00:26:57,117 --> 00:27:01,830
Now, police wonder if this man,
known only as Olykos,
462
00:27:01,914 --> 00:27:03,498
might be a sexual predator
463
00:27:03,582 --> 00:27:06,084
who has been stalking other victims,
464
00:27:06,168 --> 00:27:10,047
including a man named James
just four weeks earlier.
465
00:27:36,156 --> 00:27:38,742
When Michigan State Police
catch up to James,
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00:27:38,825 --> 00:27:40,494
he's shaken, but unharmed.
467
00:27:40,577 --> 00:27:44,456
♪ I see your evil ♪
468
00:27:44,540 --> 00:27:47,751
James was very adamant that he didn't
wanna pursue criminal charges,
469
00:27:47,835 --> 00:27:49,962
if there was anything criminal
that had happened.
470
00:27:51,755 --> 00:27:53,715
James was embarrassed,
471
00:27:53,799 --> 00:27:56,760
said, "I came here on my own free will.
I wanted to be here."
472
00:27:56,844 --> 00:27:58,595
♪ Your wicked ways ♪
473
00:27:58,679 --> 00:28:00,764
"I just wanna leave.
I just want to get outta here."
474
00:28:00,848 --> 00:28:03,058
So, he did.
475
00:28:04,852 --> 00:28:08,564
As investigators race to learn
all they can about Mark Latunski's past,
476
00:28:08,647 --> 00:28:12,609
the results from the facial
recognition lab come in.
477
00:28:12,693 --> 00:28:14,778
The Michigan State Police
facial recognition unit,
478
00:28:14,862 --> 00:28:19,700
they were able to obtain the probe image,
as it's called, of Olykos.
479
00:28:19,783 --> 00:28:21,827
And they take that probe image,
and they put it into
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00:28:21,910 --> 00:28:23,453
the facial recognition software.
481
00:28:24,538 --> 00:28:26,832
And the software gave
an investigative lead,
482
00:28:26,915 --> 00:28:30,169
which doesn't mean
it's 100% this person.
483
00:28:30,252 --> 00:28:33,172
But in this case,
their lead was Mark David Latunski.
484
00:28:40,179 --> 00:28:43,140
Suddenly, it all comes together.
485
00:28:43,223 --> 00:28:45,809
The man who the tipster
had warned Michelle about,
486
00:28:45,893 --> 00:28:49,771
the man who two potential victims
had escaped from,
487
00:28:49,855 --> 00:28:54,318
and the man on Kevin's phone
are now all one and the same:
488
00:28:55,527 --> 00:28:57,988
Mark David Latunski.
489
00:28:58,071 --> 00:29:01,408
So, with that,
that was the next logical person
490
00:29:01,491 --> 00:29:03,660
-for them to go see or talk to.
491
00:29:03,744 --> 00:29:05,913
Was, "Hey, you've been
talking to Kevin.
492
00:29:05,996 --> 00:29:07,789
Do you know where he's at?"
493
00:29:07,873 --> 00:29:10,334
Trooper Viviano gets the call again.
494
00:29:10,417 --> 00:29:14,087
It's only been a month
since he last saw Latunski.
495
00:29:14,171 --> 00:29:16,965
Mark answers the door,
496
00:29:17,049 --> 00:29:20,135
shirtless, wearing a leather kilt,
497
00:29:20,219 --> 00:29:23,972
and holding a little dog
with a pink bow in its hair.
498
00:29:24,056 --> 00:29:27,851
It reminded me of the movie
Silence of the Lambs,
499
00:29:27,935 --> 00:29:30,729
where that particular
serial killer, Buffalo Bill,
500
00:29:30,812 --> 00:29:33,315
had a little dog with
a bow in its hair.
501
00:29:33,398 --> 00:29:35,192
And it was kinda surreal.
502
00:29:35,275 --> 00:29:36,652
It was odd.
503
00:29:37,736 --> 00:29:39,279
And he goes, "Oh hey,
Trooper, how you doing?"
504
00:29:39,363 --> 00:29:40,948
And I kind of explained to him, like,
505
00:29:41,031 --> 00:29:43,242
"Hey, we're looking
for someone who went missing.
506
00:29:43,325 --> 00:29:46,119
His name's Kevin Bacon.
Do you know him?"
507
00:29:46,203 --> 00:29:49,122
And he just kinda went,
"Mm, no. Never heard of him."
508
00:29:51,458 --> 00:29:54,044
"Hey, do you mind if we come in
and search the house,
509
00:29:54,127 --> 00:29:56,547
"check the house real quick,
just to make sure everything's good
510
00:29:56,630 --> 00:29:58,507
and no one's here?"
And he just paused,
511
00:29:58,590 --> 00:30:01,385
and waved me in and said,
"Sure, come on in."
512
00:30:07,641 --> 00:30:11,603
I was thinking Kevin
was probably here at Mark's house,
513
00:30:11,687 --> 00:30:14,815
and it was probably that
they were hooking up.
514
00:30:14,898 --> 00:30:17,734
They met on a dating app,
so he didn't want anyone to know
515
00:30:17,818 --> 00:30:19,403
what he was doing,
like, that kind of thing.
516
00:30:19,486 --> 00:30:20,487
That's what I thought.
517
00:30:20,571 --> 00:30:23,448
I'm like, okay, he's gonna be here,
sitting in the kitchen, whatever,
518
00:30:23,532 --> 00:30:26,368
or in the living room, you know,
and they're just hanging out.
519
00:30:27,828 --> 00:30:29,371
We searched the first floor.
520
00:30:30,414 --> 00:30:31,957
Don't find anything remarkable,
521
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,126
nothing that kinda
piques our interest.
522
00:30:34,209 --> 00:30:38,297
We go upstairs, search the upstairs
where Mark's bedroom is.
523
00:30:39,381 --> 00:30:42,176
There's Viking swords and helmets.
524
00:30:43,302 --> 00:30:47,222
Nothing that spoke crime.
525
00:30:49,224 --> 00:30:51,185
We make our way to the basement.
526
00:30:54,688 --> 00:30:57,149
And I kinda was looking on the ground,
and there's a miter saw,
527
00:30:57,232 --> 00:30:59,276
and there's fresh-cut wood and sawdust.
528
00:31:00,777 --> 00:31:02,571
So, I put my hand on the wall
529
00:31:02,654 --> 00:31:05,949
thinking that I was gonna touch this wall
and it would be cold to the touch,
530
00:31:06,033 --> 00:31:09,077
like your basement walls,
but it was room temperature.
531
00:31:09,161 --> 00:31:11,622
So, I thought that was very odd.
532
00:31:11,705 --> 00:31:14,625
So, I push on it,
and it gives a little bit.
533
00:31:14,708 --> 00:31:17,252
Then I push on it again,
and it popped open.
534
00:31:18,128 --> 00:31:20,547
And it was kinda like
a secret door, and it swung open.
535
00:31:21,965 --> 00:31:26,136
I peered into the opening,
and I exclaimed, "Oh, my God!"
536
00:31:30,724 --> 00:31:34,728
It was just a crazy horror movie
that I was in the middle of.
537
00:31:45,072 --> 00:31:47,616
Three days after he goes missing,
538
00:31:47,699 --> 00:31:50,410
investigators are looking
for Kevin Bacon at the house
539
00:31:50,494 --> 00:31:52,329
of a potential predator.
540
00:31:52,412 --> 00:31:55,999
But even they aren't prepared
for what they are about to find.
541
00:32:02,172 --> 00:32:05,384
At first, I didn't think it was real.
542
00:32:06,969 --> 00:32:08,011
That's not real.
543
00:32:09,179 --> 00:32:12,307
It's like a dummy or something
that's fake, you know?
544
00:32:13,725 --> 00:32:15,978
And then, my sensibility
got the best of me,
545
00:32:16,061 --> 00:32:18,063
and I was like, "Oh no, it's real."
546
00:32:20,148 --> 00:32:23,110
I've never seen anything like that.
547
00:32:24,152 --> 00:32:28,031
I'm still shocked to this day
that we found him like that.
548
00:32:31,827 --> 00:32:34,830
My partner's head is peering around
the corner from the top of the stairs,
549
00:32:34,913 --> 00:32:37,583
kinda like giving me like
a "What's going on?" kinda thing.
550
00:32:37,666 --> 00:32:42,129
So, I look up at him, and I give him
the universal sign that we use
551
00:32:42,212 --> 00:32:44,173
for cuff somebody up,
put handcuffs on him.
552
00:32:48,260 --> 00:32:49,595
I go up to my sergeant.
553
00:32:49,678 --> 00:32:51,430
I said, "Sarge, he's in there."
554
00:32:51,513 --> 00:32:52,973
"Oh good, you found him?"
555
00:32:53,056 --> 00:32:54,975
"No, Sarge, he's dead.
556
00:32:56,143 --> 00:32:58,145
He's hanging from
the ceiling in the basement."
557
00:33:01,356 --> 00:33:05,152
Detectives Moore and Dirkse
meet Trooper Viviano at the scene
558
00:33:05,235 --> 00:33:07,404
and take Latunski back to the station.
559
00:33:21,084 --> 00:33:24,463
Mark told us
that he did know Kevin
560
00:33:24,546 --> 00:33:26,006
through the dating app,
561
00:33:26,089 --> 00:33:28,300
that Kevin had approached him
562
00:33:28,383 --> 00:33:30,802
about consensual sexual activity.
563
00:33:50,405 --> 00:33:54,201
Kevin was gonna act as if he was
kidnapped, and Latunski facilitated that.
564
00:33:55,577 --> 00:33:57,371
That was part of the role-play.
565
00:33:59,998 --> 00:34:01,625
As he's being led into the house
566
00:34:01,708 --> 00:34:03,710
and down into the basement,
567
00:34:03,794 --> 00:34:06,004
once they went into this room,
568
00:34:06,088 --> 00:34:08,090
the sexual activity occurred.
569
00:34:19,017 --> 00:34:21,353
Mark stated that he stabbed Kevin
570
00:34:21,436 --> 00:34:23,730
in the back of the neck with a knife.
571
00:35:01,852 --> 00:35:07,316
He then used the rope
to hoist Kevin up by his ankles.
572
00:35:10,485 --> 00:35:13,071
You're not prepared to hear the things
that he was telling us,
573
00:35:13,155 --> 00:35:15,282
but we have to keep
our emotions in check.
574
00:35:16,283 --> 00:35:19,411
Latunski admits to killing Kevin,
575
00:35:19,494 --> 00:35:21,121
but he insists that it wasn't a murder.
576
00:35:22,706 --> 00:35:25,167
Mark told us after
the sexual activity occurred,
577
00:35:25,250 --> 00:35:28,337
that Kevin wanted Mark to kill him,
578
00:35:28,420 --> 00:35:30,214
to end his life.
579
00:35:50,692 --> 00:35:54,071
Latunski thought, you know, in his mind,
this was an assisted suicide.
580
00:35:54,154 --> 00:35:56,365
What in the world, you know?
581
00:35:56,448 --> 00:35:58,033
What is this guy all about?
582
00:35:58,116 --> 00:35:59,326
...160 pounds.
583
00:35:59,409 --> 00:36:02,371
There's no doubt in my mind,
there's no doubt in anybody else's mind
584
00:36:02,454 --> 00:36:04,498
that Kevin did not want to die.
585
00:36:05,415 --> 00:36:08,085
He did not go into this
looking to commit suicide.
586
00:36:08,168 --> 00:36:10,921
♪ My eyes closed ♪
587
00:36:11,004 --> 00:36:13,048
Kevin had mentioned
in the text messages
588
00:36:13,131 --> 00:36:15,717
that he wanted to make sure
that he was gonna be safe.
589
00:36:15,801 --> 00:36:17,594
He asked, "Am I gonna be safe?"
590
00:36:17,678 --> 00:36:19,638
♪ Won't you leave my mind? ♪
591
00:36:19,721 --> 00:36:22,766
He expected to be home
with his family for Christmas.
592
00:36:26,395 --> 00:36:29,773
At the end of the interview, he wanted
to know when he was going home.
593
00:36:29,857 --> 00:36:32,192
And we ended up breaking it to him.
"Sorry, you're going to jail.
594
00:36:32,276 --> 00:36:33,443
You're not going home."
595
00:36:36,780 --> 00:36:38,782
"You're being arrested for
the murder of Kevin Bacon."
596
00:36:43,078 --> 00:36:45,122
I've dealt with a wide range
of different people throughout my career.
597
00:36:45,205 --> 00:36:48,500
There's usually a little bit of humanness
and a little bit of...
598
00:36:48,584 --> 00:36:51,420
remorse most of the time.
599
00:36:51,503 --> 00:36:52,796
But there was nothing.
600
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,174
He didn't think anything
he did was wrong,
601
00:36:55,257 --> 00:36:57,009
which was hard to understand.
602
00:37:01,722 --> 00:37:04,600
Investigators finally
know the grisly truth
603
00:37:04,683 --> 00:37:08,437
and are burdened with
informing his loved ones.
604
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:10,689
I mean, parents aren't
supposed to bury their kids,
605
00:37:10,772 --> 00:37:13,942
let alone in this fashion.
606
00:37:14,026 --> 00:37:17,946
So, to see them and to see their reaction
was kind of heartbreaking.
607
00:37:19,489 --> 00:37:22,409
♪ It all starts somewhere ♪
608
00:37:24,369 --> 00:37:27,998
♪ The innocence and fantasies ♪
609
00:37:28,081 --> 00:37:29,917
My phone immediately
started blowing up.
610
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,169
Ding, ding, ding, ding,
ding, ding, everywhere.
611
00:37:32,252 --> 00:37:34,755
And I just knew. Even before
I opened my phone, I just knew.
612
00:37:34,838 --> 00:37:36,590
♪ And it all goes nowhere ♪
613
00:37:36,673 --> 00:37:39,593
I cannot even
encapsulate how painful
614
00:37:39,676 --> 00:37:41,720
that moment was for me then.
615
00:37:41,803 --> 00:37:44,097
A pain that I've never,
ever experienced before.
616
00:37:44,181 --> 00:37:48,727
♪ Broken-hearted dreams ♪
617
00:37:48,810 --> 00:37:50,646
♪ You were my friend ♪
618
00:37:50,729 --> 00:37:54,066
♪ You were my treasure ♪
619
00:37:54,149 --> 00:37:56,068
The social media world now turns
620
00:37:56,151 --> 00:37:59,363
from searching for Kevin to mourning him.
621
00:38:00,405 --> 00:38:03,700
And when Kevin's personal idol
hears about the tragedy,
622
00:38:03,784 --> 00:38:05,702
he reaches out to help.
623
00:38:06,787 --> 00:38:10,165
I'm so devastated for the Bacon family.
624
00:38:10,249 --> 00:38:11,792
Um...
625
00:38:11,875 --> 00:38:13,126
I don't know.
626
00:38:13,210 --> 00:38:15,128
Here is sweet Kevin,
and I want you guys
627
00:38:15,212 --> 00:38:18,298
to, um, be able to link to his GoFundMe.
628
00:38:18,382 --> 00:38:20,008
So, if you guys wanna swipe up.
629
00:38:20,926 --> 00:38:22,052
Kevin, I love you.
630
00:38:23,136 --> 00:38:25,639
He had a really beautiful,
beautiful service.
631
00:38:25,722 --> 00:38:28,725
And honestly, a lot of that,
thanks to Jeffree Star,
632
00:38:28,809 --> 00:38:32,020
and all of the followers,
'cause they donated the 20K.
633
00:38:32,104 --> 00:38:37,109
♪ I bet it's so nice up in Heaven
since you arrived ♪
634
00:38:37,192 --> 00:38:38,944
It was just so good
to see, you know,
635
00:38:39,027 --> 00:38:43,031
so many people out to just
make sure he was done right.
636
00:38:43,115 --> 00:38:48,495
♪ 'Cause here on Earth,
everything's different ♪
637
00:38:55,210 --> 00:38:57,129
I'm Scott Koerner,
the elected prosecutor
638
00:38:57,212 --> 00:38:58,589
of Shiawassee County.
639
00:38:58,672 --> 00:39:00,883
Latunski's initial defense counsel filed
640
00:39:00,966 --> 00:39:03,010
what's called the notice
of insanity defense,
641
00:39:03,093 --> 00:39:05,721
which means that
if he was found insane,
642
00:39:05,804 --> 00:39:08,390
he would not be responsible
for the crime.
643
00:39:08,473 --> 00:39:11,727
That leads to
two and a half years of legal motions,
644
00:39:11,810 --> 00:39:16,899
competency evaluations,
and psychiatric hospitalizations.
645
00:39:16,982 --> 00:39:19,234
He was aware
of what he was doing.
646
00:39:19,318 --> 00:39:20,986
We had internet searches
647
00:39:21,069 --> 00:39:22,863
that were taking place
the night before
648
00:39:22,946 --> 00:39:24,740
about a certain type of knife.
649
00:39:24,823 --> 00:39:26,575
We have receipts
from the Home Depot
650
00:39:26,658 --> 00:39:29,369
where Latunski went
and purchased that knife
651
00:39:29,453 --> 00:39:31,788
just prior to the murder,
the night before.
652
00:39:31,872 --> 00:39:33,290
And then, we had his confession.
653
00:39:33,373 --> 00:39:36,460
So, we felt confident
there was a lot of evidence.
654
00:39:40,422 --> 00:39:44,176
As to premeditated murder, Mr. Latunski,
655
00:39:44,259 --> 00:39:46,136
it is the sentence of this court
656
00:39:46,220 --> 00:39:48,263
that you serve out
the remainder of your life
657
00:39:48,347 --> 00:39:51,141
in the Michigan Department
of Corrections,
658
00:39:51,225 --> 00:39:53,644
without the possibility of parole.
659
00:39:53,727 --> 00:39:57,064
♪ Deep down, you go ♪
660
00:39:57,147 --> 00:39:59,107
But it don't bring Kevin back,
661
00:39:59,191 --> 00:40:02,736
but at least now,
we got some type of closure.
662
00:40:02,819 --> 00:40:05,322
♪ And though you wonder ♪
663
00:40:06,823 --> 00:40:08,992
Kevin was murdered
in someone's basement
664
00:40:09,076 --> 00:40:11,245
by a person that he trusted.
665
00:40:11,328 --> 00:40:14,414
He was missing this aspect that he wanted
of, like, a long-term connection,
666
00:40:14,498 --> 00:40:16,667
and I think he didn't know
what could happen.
667
00:40:16,750 --> 00:40:20,003
♪ And the ghosts are gone ♪
668
00:40:21,338 --> 00:40:25,467
While Latunski's conviction
is a small comfort to Kevin's family,
669
00:40:25,551 --> 00:40:30,597
law enforcement believes
that the screenshots he took
670
00:40:30,681 --> 00:40:32,975
led them to a budding serial killer.
671
00:40:33,058 --> 00:40:36,645
To them, Kevin is a hero.
672
00:40:36,728 --> 00:40:39,022
Kevin probably saved a lot of lives.
673
00:40:41,275 --> 00:40:45,237
Had Kevin not taken
those screenshots,
674
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,991
we don't know how quickly
Mark would have been identified
675
00:40:49,074 --> 00:40:50,409
as a person of interest.
676
00:40:51,326 --> 00:40:55,247
And it is very likely that Kevin's body
may never have been found.
677
00:40:56,248 --> 00:40:57,958
It cost him his life,
678
00:40:58,041 --> 00:41:00,919
but we got a true predator off the streets
679
00:41:01,003 --> 00:41:03,755
and put in prison in Latunski,
680
00:41:03,839 --> 00:41:05,090
all thanks to Kevin.
681
00:41:07,050 --> 00:41:09,428
He's kind of always
in the back of my head,
682
00:41:09,511 --> 00:41:13,390
like, almost to make sure
that I'm still kind of a good person.
683
00:41:14,892 --> 00:41:18,353
I just wanna make sure
that I do him proud up there.
684
00:41:32,326 --> 00:41:35,579
♪ I don't know where
my head is lately ♪
685
00:41:35,662 --> 00:41:37,664
♪ Have I lost my mind? ♪
686
00:41:45,881 --> 00:41:49,218
♪ But I know that I have a secret ♪
687
00:41:49,301 --> 00:41:51,803
♪ And it's only mine ♪
688
00:41:59,394 --> 00:42:02,940
♪ And the only way to find me ♪
689
00:42:03,023 --> 00:42:06,735
♪ Is to go beneath the lies ♪
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