Alicia sits down with Ray Oliver, a Special Agent with the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation’s Computer Crimes Unit, to explore the realities of tracking online predators and examining digital evidence. Ray shares the emotional toll of the work, the cases that have stayed with him, and how investigators balance family life while protecting children. They also confront the complicated line between entertainment and exploitation and asking what responsibility readers, writers, and true crime creators have when fictional darkness reflects trauma that real people have survived.

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Breaking the Silence: Chaz Balogh’s Survivor Story
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