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.

Alicia sits down with Ray Oliver, a Special Agent with the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation&rsquo;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.

Hosted by Alicia Kozak (Kozakiewicz), the first known survivor of child abduction by an online predator, motivational speaker, and national advocate, this podcast goes beyond true crime to reveal the hidden side of real crime. In each episode, Alicia has raw, powerful conversations with the people who confront the darkest crimes against children. These are the heroes and protectors who work behind the scenes: law enforcement, forensic experts, analysts, and those on the front lines and in the trenches.They are the voices the world rarely hears. The stories the public doesn’t see. The side of these crimes that isn’t talked about. Yet even in the darkest corners, hope remains.

For more on Alicia's work, follow @AliciaKozakPod and @ItsAliciaKozak on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and X.

 

Hosted by Alicia Kozak (Kozakiewicz), the first known survivor of child abduction by an online predator, motivational speaker, and national advocate, this podcast goes beyond true crime to reveal the hidden side of real crime. In each episode, Alicia has raw, powerful conversations with the people who confront the darkest crimes against children. These are the heroes and protectors who work behind the scenes: law enforcement, forensic experts, analysts, and those on the front lines and in the trenches.They are the voices the world rarely hears. The stories the public doesn&rsquo;t see. The side of these crimes that isn&rsquo;t talked about. Yet even in the darkest corners, hope remains.
For more on Alicia's work, follow @AliciaKozakPod and @ItsAliciaKozak on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and X.
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The Alicia Kozak Podcast

Dark Fiction, Real Victims with Ray Oliver

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