EDP445 sat across from Chris Hansen and admitted he drove to meet a 13-year-old girl to have sex with her. "For the most part, yep." He says he almost brought a Glock 17 and would have shot the people who caught him "dead." Two years later he got caught again, this time with a 15-year-old. For 5 years nobody charged him. Last week his own interview put him in handcuffs.
His real name is Bryant Moreland. He got famous screaming about the Philadelphia Eagles on YouTube. Cameo shoutouts, a huge following, and a fan base he himself said was mostly kids.
April 2021. A girl named "Sophie" messages him. She tells him she's 13. He says that's about 99% of his fan base.
The chats go sexual fast. He sends her pictures of himself. Hansen reads one of his messages out loud to his face: "Handcuff you, throw you in the back of my car and bring you back to my dungeon lol."
He blocks her. He knows it's illegal. Then he unblocks her.
A friend tells him it's a setup. He almost stays home. Then "Sophie" cries and says she just wants to give him a cupcake. He drives to Bakersfield.
"Sophie" was a decoy. Predator Poachers were waiting with cameras. The cupcake clip went viral and he lost his channels.
In the video below he explains it himself, calm, like he's describing a bad day at work.
Why did he show up? "Trying to obviously meet up with an underage girl."
To have sex with a 13-year-old? "For the most part, yep."
No woman his own age? "Pretty much, yeah."
What if a real 13-year-old had been there? "Probably would have had sex."
What would that have done to her? "Oh, scarred her."
Does he think about it? "It's been 3 and a half, 4 years ago. I've moved on."
Then he tells Hansen about the gun. A Glock 17 on his kitchen counter. He picked it up to bring. Walked back in and left it.
If he'd brought it? "I'll probably be going down for three counts of murder in the first degree."
Would he really have shot them? "Shot him dead."
Hansen tells him that if the sting hadn't been botched, he'd be in prison. His answer: "Thank God he didn't."
And it didn't stop. In 2023 YouTubers Skeeter Jean and JiDion exposed his chats with a girl Hansen says was 15. Hansen reads his message to her: if she set him up, "I'll give your soul to the Lord."
What did he think when they showed up? "Kill them."
For years the case went nowhere. Prosecutors looked at it in 2021 and 2022 and filed nothing.
Then the documentary "The Sick Mind of EDP445" came out in August. The Kern County DA reopened the case because of what he said on camera. On November 2 they filed 4 felony counts, including attempted lewd acts with a child. On November 4 he was arrested in Nevada. He's set to be sent back to California. He hasn't been convicted yet.
Half of you will say vigilante stings with fake 13-year-olds are entrapment and he should walk. The other half will say a grown man said "for the most part, yep" on camera and that's all a jury needs.
A cupcake. A Glock on the counter. A confession he gave for free.
Does EDP445 finally go to prison, or does a sloppy sting get him off a second time?
Russell Brand anally raped a 21-year-old woman in his London home in 2009. She spent years afraid she had HIV. A jury convicted him last week, and yesterday a judge gave him 10 and a half years and called him a "sexual predator." Just weeks earlier he was on stage at the MAHA summit next to Dr. Oz, cracking a joke about consent. In 2023 he told his 6.6 million subscribers every relationship he ever had was "absolutely always consensual."
He's 51. Movie star, Katy Perry's ex-husband, one of the most famous comedians in Britain. For almost 20 years nobody touched him.
The judge said why out loud. His fame protected him. His entourage "indulged" him. He had a "casual arrogant disregard to any woman's right to say no."
In the video below you hear it in order. Him in 2023. Him on stage. Then the judge.
September 2023, the day before the Sunday Times and Channel 4 publish, he gets ahead of it:
"I was very, very promiscuous. Now during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual."
Then he asks his audience: "Is there another agenda at play?"
Millions believed him. He got baptized and built a whole new audience.
Then the MAHA summit. Dr. Oz on stage. Brand grabs the mic and makes a joke about who "initiated that contact." The crowd laughs.
Then Southwark Crown Court. Four women. Four convictions.
9 years for the rape in 2009.
18 months for grabbing a woman's face, kissing her and groping her at a radio studio in 2004 or 2005.
9 months for grabbing a woman's breasts at a birthday party in 2004.
8 months for putting his head in the groin of a woman working with him on a Channel 4 project in 2009.
The woman he raped told the court: "I no longer trust my instincts."
Another said that for years, just hearing his voice on TV made her jump.
He didn't react to the sentence. Before they took him down he mouthed "I love you" to his wife.
He'll serve 7 years. He goes on the sex offenders register with no end date.
And it isn't over. The Met says more women have come forward during and after the trial. And yesterday his ex-girlfriend Jemima Khan went public, accusing him of violence and coercive control during their relationship.
Half of you are already typing that there was no DNA, no CCTV, and it was 20 years ago. The other half will say a jury heard four women and believed every one.
Always consensual. A joke about consent. 10 and a half years.
Do you think Russell Brand finally got what he deserved, or did a jury convict the man instead of the evidence?
Chloe Ayling was 20 when two men in balaclavas stuck a needle of ketamine in her inside a fake photo studio in Milan. She woke up handcuffed, mouth taped, zipped inside a bag. They put her up for sale on the dark web and asked for €300,000. She talked her own way out. The man who took her got 16 years. And people still call her a liar.
She was a British glamour model with a 2-year-old son at home. Her agency booked her a shoot in Milan. Normal job. She'd done international work before.
In the video below she tells it herself, and you can watch her face the whole time.
"It turned out to be a set up instead of a shoot."
Two masked men were waiting inside. Ketamine.
"My next memory was waking up in a bag with handcuffs on my wrists and on my ankles, tape on my mouth."
They drove her to a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere and kept her there.
She got out the only way she could. She worked on her captor. "I was able to convince the guy to set me free by using his feelings." They dropped her at the British Consulate.
That should have been the end. It was the start of round two.
She didn't cry on camera. She smiled. She wore what glamour models wear. Then it came out she'd gone shoe shopping with her kidnapper during those days. The internet decided it was a publicity stunt.
Ask her why people didn't believe her:
"How I acted, that I'm not emotional, that I was smiling, how I was dressing. It all combined."
Ask her why she doesn't just cry for the cameras:
"I would be faking it if I was crying. And that's just not how I am."
The court looked at the evidence. Lukasz Herba was convicted and got 16 years and 9 months.
The headlines never caught up.
"I got that justice at court. I never got that from the media. Still a false headline saying that it was all fake and a publicity stunt."
People say she gave interviews the day she was released. She says she was stuck in Italy for three weeks after.
Years later she was diagnosed with autism. She says that's the calm that made strangers sure she was lying.
Her line that hits hardest is the last one in the video:
"How is anyone else going to come forward about anything that's happened to them, when this is how they're treated?"
Half of you will say no real victim goes shopping with the man who kidnapped her. The other half will say you only find out how you'd act when someone tells you you're about to be sold.
A needle. A bag. A price tag. And 9 years of being called a liar.
Do you believe Chloe Ayling, or do you think she should have cried?
Liliana is 23 and she has already died once. For 10 minutes. She still talks about overdosing like it's the best sleep she ever had. Rehab is where she first heard the word dope. Today more than 30 men a day pay her on a Kensington corner, and all $600 is gone before the sun comes up. Her dream is to run a rehab.
She grew up in Asbury, New Jersey, in a family where addiction was already normal. Her brother overdosed before her.
Her problem started with alcohol. So she did the right thing and went to treatment. She walked out with a new drug.
Asked how it compared, she didn't need to think: "I liked it better."
That was 6 years ago. She's been on fentanyl ever since. The corner is new. Only a few weeks.
In the video below she explains her life to a stranger with a camera, and she doesn't soften a single word.
How did she get hooked for real? "First time I OD'd, I loved it. I like that sleeping effect. It brings comfort."
What's a normal day? "I don't sleep. I don't eat. I get up. I go, like, basically prostitute myself for money. Then I come back. I cop. And I just do the same thing over and over and over again."
How many men? "I don't even f*cking know. Maybe like over 30, depending the day."
What kind of men? "Old men that are like lonely."
Does she enjoy any of it? "No. But it's quick money."
How much of the $600 does she keep? "Spending on drugs. All of it." That's 10 to 15 bags, every day.
This is the part nobody expects. She got out. 7 months clean. Then she walked back in on her own. No dealer dragged her, no boyfriend, no crisis. "Boredom and loneliness."
The worst thing she's seen out there: a woman with no arms and no feet, shooting up through her mouth.
Does she want to stop? "No. But I need to."
Is she scared of dying? "No."
Where is she in 6 months? "Either sober or dead. Because if I'm still getting high in six months, I don't want to be alive."
Her family keeps calling, again and again, trying to get her home. She has three wishes: get sober, a stable life, talk to her family again.
And if she survives this, she wants to run a rehab. The exact kind of place where she found out about dope.
Half of you will say she's 23, she had 7 clean months and threw them away, and nobody forced her back to that corner. The other half will say a girl who misses being dead was never really choosing anything.
10 minutes dead. 7 months clean. 6 months on her own deadline.
Does Liliana get to open that rehab one day, or does she end up as the story they tell inside one?