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<v Speaker 1>It's time for our True Crime Tuesday. The story is true,

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<v Speaker 1>sounds true? No, it sounds made up. I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>Garry and Shannon present True Crime.

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<v Speaker 2>There is a really weird world that exists that you

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<v Speaker 2>and I probably don't know very much about. And it's

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<v Speaker 2>those people in the very high echelons in the world

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<v Speaker 2>of crypto. And as difficult as it is for a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of people to just simply understand what crypto trading is,

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<v Speaker 2>how anybody can make money at it, how it has

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<v Speaker 2>survived as long as it has, this is going to

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<v Speaker 2>add a tiny bit of probably fear to that keeping

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<v Speaker 2>people away from crypto. The Wall Street Journal published a

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<v Speaker 2>story about the ransom that exists, ransom cases that exist

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<v Speaker 2>in cryptocurrency, and that there have been greater and greater

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<v Speaker 2>incursions of safety, I guess, threats to safety in that

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<v Speaker 2>very elite crypto world. Three men in black masks jump

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<v Speaker 2>a thirty four year old woman in Paris. Her father

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<v Speaker 2>runs Paymium, which is a cryptocurrency exchange based in France.

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<v Speaker 2>They had canisters, a mace, they had a gun. They

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<v Speaker 2>tried to force this woman and her baby into an

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<v Speaker 2>idling van disguised as a delivery truck. Her husband was

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<v Speaker 2>there was able to throw himself between his family and

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<v Speaker 2>the attackers. A neighbor was able to grab the child

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<v Speaker 2>and get it to safety. The other neighbors were closing in.

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<v Speaker 2>Shopkeeper shows up to throw a fire extinguisher. The kidnappers

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<v Speaker 2>I should say would be kidnappers, jump into their van

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<v Speaker 2>and they speed off. The latest in a wave of

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<v Speaker 2>violent criminal attacks and potential abductions around the world, including

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<v Speaker 2>some here in the United States, that target these crypto

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<v Speaker 2>executives and sometimes their families.

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<v Speaker 1>Like this one.

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<v Speaker 2>Victims have been pistol whipped, some of them have been kidnapped.

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<v Speaker 2>In at least two cases, their fingers have been severed.

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<v Speaker 1>Again. It sounds like this is going to be a movie.

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<v Speaker 2>The goal is to get millions of dollars in ransom

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<v Speaker 2>in cryptocurrency. These are sometimes called wrench attacks like the

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<v Speaker 2>Tool simply because they rely on very simple tools for

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<v Speaker 2>inflicting pain to coerce their victims, very old school mafia

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<v Speaker 2>sound to it. Hacking used to be the biggest risk.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, it's still a big risk for crypto people.

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<v Speaker 2>But to thwart those hackers, cryptocurrency investors take their digital

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<v Speaker 2>wallets offline in favor of a physical device. It makes

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<v Speaker 2>some more Making it remote and offline makes it harder

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<v Speaker 2>for somebody to steal simply by hacking into it, so

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<v Speaker 2>real world crypto crime is what bypasses those safeguards. A

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<v Speaker 2>bitcoin security company called Kasa, the co founder says, a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of people are getting to the hide your gold

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<v Speaker 2>under the mattress level of security. But if you're a

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<v Speaker 2>high profile person, that's when you have to worry about

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<v Speaker 2>the physical attack.

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<v Speaker 1>A cryptocurrency exchange.

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<v Speaker 2>Just this week, Coinbase disclosed that as many as ninety

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<v Speaker 2>seven thousand people had their personal information stolen, including addresses.

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<v Speaker 2>The company said it was likely stolen by bribed contractors

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<v Speaker 2>or employees that worked in their customer support, and that

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<v Speaker 2>it had refused a twenty million dollar ransom demand. We've

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<v Speaker 2>seen that with you know, hospitals, municipalities, et cetera. Somebody

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<v Speaker 2>will hack into a system and basically hold it hostage

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<v Speaker 2>until the hospital or police department or municipality whatever pays

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<v Speaker 2>the ransom of free up that computer system. Cryptocurrency has

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<v Speaker 2>also surged over the course of the last year. Bitcoin alone.

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<v Speaker 2>Bitcoin is up fifty four percent in the last year,

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<v Speaker 2>so there are people making millions of dollars on all

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<v Speaker 2>of this. At least five crypto related abductions have taken

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<v Speaker 2>place in France in just the last few months, dozens

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<v Speaker 2>of others around the world in the last year. For example,

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<v Speaker 2>in Australia, a crypto billionaire was almost kidnapped whilst vacationing

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<v Speaker 2>in Estonia. He was able to fight off the attackers

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<v Speaker 2>posing as painters. In March, a crypto influencer out of

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<v Speaker 2>Houston was assaulted before her husband got into a shootout

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<v Speaker 2>with the bad guys who invaded their home in the

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<v Speaker 2>middle of the night demanding her laptop. Some of the

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<v Speaker 2>assaults have been clumsy, some of them messy. But the

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<v Speaker 2>problem is there are now organized crime rings that are

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<v Speaker 2>seeing this as a major profit potential, and once you

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<v Speaker 2>get a little bit more sophistication behind some of these

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<v Speaker 2>abduction attacks, you're going to see people go away for

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<v Speaker 2>a long time, and I mean disappear. In September, there

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<v Speaker 2>was a Floorida man who was sentenced to forty seven

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<v Speaker 2>years in prison because he led a crime ring that

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<v Speaker 2>carried out a string of home invasion across home invasion

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<v Speaker 2>robberies in multiple states. In search specifically of crypto. In

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<v Speaker 2>one of the attacks, he held a gun to the

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<v Speaker 2>head of a guy in Durham, North Carolina, threatened to

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<v Speaker 2>cut off his his junk. The victim eventually was able

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<v Speaker 2>to transfer one hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of

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<v Speaker 2>crypto to The guy was later ordered to pay more

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<v Speaker 2>than five hundred thousand dollars in restitution to his victims

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<v Speaker 2>as part of his sentencing. Just last week, the Interior

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<v Speaker 2>Minister in France gathered a bunch of crypto companies for

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<v Speaker 2>a meeting to try to present new security measures for

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<v Speaker 2>that sector. They said the attack that attempted kidnapping from

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<v Speaker 2>last week appeared similar to other recent abductions in France,

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<v Speaker 2>in which they said these ringleaders are recruiting a bunch

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<v Speaker 2>of young criminals they never meet, using apps like Telegram

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<v Speaker 2>and Signal, and then remotely controlling them to execute their plan. Again,

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<v Speaker 2>the French Interior Ministry says that these are probably linked.

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<v Speaker 2>At least some of these, like I said, have been

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<v Speaker 2>successful in terms of the abductions, and definitely the physical

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<v Speaker 2>assaults have been successful, with some people losing their fingers

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<v Speaker 2>over this whole crypto thing. We're in the midst of

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<v Speaker 2>True Crime Tuesday and talking about some of the craziest

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<v Speaker 2>true crime stories that we've seen over the last couple

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<v Speaker 2>of years, and I got to tell you this is

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<v Speaker 2>one of them. The story behind Fred and Rose West

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<v Speaker 2>a British horror story.

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<v Speaker 1>I said it was a book.

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<v Speaker 2>I meant to say that it was actually a Netflix

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<v Speaker 2>documentary that has come out and it's a series. And

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<v Speaker 2>I will say now, based on the story, it is

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<v Speaker 2>not for public consumption, or at least not a general

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<v Speaker 2>family watching.

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<v Speaker 1>Shall we say?

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<v Speaker 2>This documentary ends with a judge sentencing Rose West to

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<v Speaker 2>life in prison. She was married to Fred West, and

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<v Speaker 2>back in nineteen sixty nine. Fred was twenty seven years old,

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<v Speaker 2>Rose was only fifteen. The power dynamic in that gives

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<v Speaker 2>you an idea of how this relationship started. He controlled

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<v Speaker 2>every aspect of her life and he pimped her out. Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>that's not setting a great table for the relationship going forward.

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<v Speaker 2>They had several kids together, at least ten, and the

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<v Speaker 2>whole thing starts with I mentioned that the documentary ends

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<v Speaker 2>with her being sentenced to life in prison. It starts

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<v Speaker 2>with police discovering the remains of one of their daughters

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<v Speaker 2>in their home, there was this kind of weird and uncomfortable.

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<v Speaker 2>Everybody thought it was a joke at the time that

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<v Speaker 2>would go between several of the children, which was, if

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<v Speaker 2>you misbehave, you'll end up under the patio like Heather,

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<v Speaker 2>and friends of theirs heard the kids say that joke

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<v Speaker 2>to each other and never thought anything about it because

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<v Speaker 2>they didn't know there was a Heather until her body

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<v Speaker 2>was found, Like I said, under the patio. She had

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<v Speaker 2>been missing since nineteen eighty seven, and in the years

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<v Speaker 2>after she disappeared, the stories about where she ended up changed.

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<v Speaker 2>Parents would tell the different stories. It was February of

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<v Speaker 2>ninety four that her remains were found underneath the patio

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<v Speaker 2>of the rear garden of their home. Fred was arrested.

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<v Speaker 2>Fred admitted that he killed the daughter in interviews with

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<v Speaker 2>police there in Gloucester, but that was one of the

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<v Speaker 2>last vast murders that he committed. Fred was accused of

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<v Speaker 2>starting way back in nineteen sixty seven, killing at least

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<v Speaker 2>twelve young women. And remember that was about the time

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<v Speaker 2>that he was starting to get this relationship with Rose.

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<v Speaker 2>He was again killing a dozen women. Rose was convicted

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<v Speaker 2>of ten of the murders. The date back to the

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<v Speaker 2>early seventies. The documentary reveals also the story of Alison Chambers,

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<v Speaker 2>who had run away from home. In the series, her

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<v Speaker 2>sister Desra reads a letter from nineteen seventy nine that

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<v Speaker 2>her mother received from Alison, saying that she was going

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<v Speaker 2>to be living with this great new couple, Fred and

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<v Speaker 2>Rose and looking after their children, acting sort of as

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<v Speaker 2>a nanny. A few months later, she goes missing and

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<v Speaker 2>her remains are found at the house there in Gloucester.

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<v Speaker 2>The series does not actually center on the living kids

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<v Speaker 2>because a lot of them are not on speaking terms

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<v Speaker 2>with each other today. There's a lot of blame that

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<v Speaker 2>goes back and forth between them. The eldest son, a

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<v Speaker 2>guy named Steven, says, I don't speak to my siblings.

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<v Speaker 2>There are no large, happy family get togethers. Too much

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<v Speaker 2>has gone on. It's probably too painful for us. Phil Davis,

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<v Speaker 2>is the husband of an older sister, explained every few

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<v Speaker 2>years the cases back in the media, like now with

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<v Speaker 2>this new documentary, the public public gets interested again. But

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<v Speaker 2>it's the kids who live with the pain of what

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<v Speaker 2>happened on a daily basis, and in the series it's

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<v Speaker 2>the relatives of the family. It's that second concentric circle

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<v Speaker 2>who gets the last word. Brelinda Mott, whose sister Juanita

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<v Speaker 2>remains were found in the cellar of the West House,

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<v Speaker 2>is seen visiting the sister's tombstone and she says, this

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<v Speaker 2>is why I say to my children every single time

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<v Speaker 2>I say good night or goodbye, I always say I

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<v Speaker 2>love you, because you never know when it's the last time.

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<v Speaker 2>Desra said, talking about her sister Allison, the one that

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<v Speaker 2>was a nanny, said it's cathartic. She's gotten so used

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<v Speaker 2>to compartmentalizing all of this, she says, I've never really

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<v Speaker 2>worked through it, so it was a help to her

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<v Speaker 2>to take part in the documentary and it's filmmaking, so again,

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<v Speaker 2>just an awful true crime story that's going to be

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<v Speaker 2>this Netflix. Fred and Rose West a British horror story.