(♪♪)
>> Mark: Amanda Todd, the
teenager from B.C. whose very
name is synonymous with
bullying, suicide and loss.
>> How important is it to you
to find out who did this to your
daughter?
>> If I had one dying wish,
that would be it.
To find out who started all
this.
>> Mark: Tonight, the never
before told story of the man
accused of stalking her
online.
>> My client is 36 years old,
Turkish-Dutch citizen.
>> Mark: How many more victims
would there be?
>> Three shows and it all goes
away.
>> Mark: And why wasn't he
arrested before Amanda took
her own life?
>> He knows what he's doing.
He's done it before.
He's well-practised.
He knows what to say, what to
do, and how to do it.
>> Mark: I'm Mark Kelley.
This is "The Fifth Estate."
(♪♪)
>> Mark: The story of Amanda
Todd's torment begins in the
Netherlands.
The teenager and her tormenter
divided by continents but
connected by the Internet.
This is the story of one Dutch
man who authorities say would
bully and blackmail the B.C.
teen without ever leaving his
home in Holland.
He lived his life in the
shadows.
Investigators say from his
laptop computer, using dozens
of aliases, he would troll the
globe looking for victims, and
he found one.
And she was just 11 years old.
7700 kilometres away, in quiet
Port Coquitlam, B.C., where
her parents assumed she was
safe, Amanda Todd was on her
laptop, and that's how the man
with the online name Tyler Boo
would find her.
>> You still think you're
dealing with an amateur.
You have until the end of the
day before all hell breaks
loose.
>> Mark: It begins with
relentless threats that would
build to this.
Two years later, a
heart-breaking plea for help,
a video that went viral after
Amanda committed suicide.
Investigators around the world
would soon start scouring the
Internet.
Looking for the man who was
stalking young girls.
>> Hey, guys.
It's Amanda.
I'm going to sing "Someone
Like You."
♪ I heard that your .... ♪
>> Mark: Amanda's online life
began innocently.
She was a kid with a dream.
She wanted to be famous.
And the Internet was her
stage, according to her mom
Carol.
>> She was spirited.
She was creative.
Painfully shy at times in her
life.
She loved the technology
because she was successful at
it, and she could make things,
she made little videos, she
learned how to tape herself
and sing.
♪ Yeah ♪
>> And then she learned how
to post them on YouTube.
>> Thank you.
(♪♪)
>> Mark: But her online life was
much more than videos.
This is her well-worn laptop.
Her parents gave "The Fifth
Estate" two of her computers
so we could unlock them to
find hundreds of chat logs
from Amanda.
The girl known online as
Cutielover.
>> Do you like the poem I made
for you?
(beep)
>> Love starts with a hug.
Grows with a kiss.
And ends with a tear drop.
(beep)
>> Mark: Where Amanda could
be teased at school for being
awkward and naive, her new
online friends were giving her
what any kid craved,
affirmation and attention.
>> Boys, right, you know, you're
cute, gimme your phone number,
I think she focused on the
attention that they were
giving her in the wrong ways
but then when boys are paying
attention to a girl, then the
other girls get upset and so
often she couldn't handle it.
>> Mark: Her parents split
when Amanda was young.
She lived on and off with her
mother and her father Norm.
>> Amanda was always trying to
fit in with the popular crowds
and be a big part of everything.
And sometimes it got her into
trouble.
>> Mark: And trouble was easy
to find online.
Amanda's life started moving
at the speed of the Internet.
♪ In my silver tears ♪
>> Mark: Though she was focusing
on her singing videos, people
online started focusing on her.
>> You never had the concern
that as she's putting herself
out there, that there is
anything dark going on?
>> She asked for a webcam, and
I said "no," that a child does
not need a webcam of any kind,
especially a 12-year-old girl.
And she and I probably argued
the point, right.
>> Mark: And you lost.
>> I lost.
>> Mark: She moved in with her
dad.
Norm didn't see the webcam as
a danger, far from it.
He thought the webcam was like
an arena where Amanda could
perform.
♪ I'm not a princess,
this ain't a fairytale ♪
>> Mark: How hard did that make
it for you to be able to police
what your daughter was doing
online?
>> We'd get her password,
I'd go on her computer
sometimes and you could look
and see what she's been doing.
It always leave a trail and so
I'd poke in on things and
check on things and there was
a lot of chat and things
between her friends and that.
>> Mark: But like most teens,
Amanda's chat logs revealed
she was trying to stay one
step ahead of her dad.
(♪♪)
>> My dad will say bedtime and
I'll close the laptop.
And when he closes my door,
I'll be back.
(beep)
>> Mark: Amanda seemed to be
getting transfixed by her
image on the screen.
Watch in this video as she
stares endlessly at herself on
her webcam.
When she found websites with
other people on webcams, she
would discover it wasn't just
kids staring back.
Amanda's friends Shylah and
Tessa remember the late-night
sleepovers and how that webcam
became their window on a whole
new world.
>> What's going on in the
internet?
>> Like, I don't know,
Facebook a lot, like blog TV.
>> Mark: Tell me about blog
TV.
>> Well, you're supposed to
like, chat with like, other
strangers around the world,
like, your age and stuff, and
they just meet new people.
>> Hi, I'm Andrea.
>> Hey, everyone.
>> Mark: Websites like blog TV
were and still are wildly
popular with kids with webcams
and free time on their hands.
>> I am good.
Yes, I am very good.
>> Mark: Some sing...
♪ Seeking words of wisdom ♪
>> Mark: Some seek advice.
>> I have a question, what
else should go on this picture?
>> Mark: Some perform, and
others don't seem to know what
to do.
It's a place where people can
meet.
>> How old are you ladies?
>> 16.
>> Perfect.
>> Mark: And move on.
>> Thanks.
Bye.
>> Mark: But there's also a
dark backdrop to the glare of
that webcam.
At what point do things get a
little, you know, edgier?
>> Like weird?
>> Mark: Yeah.
>> 'Cause like, I guess like,
creepy people go on the website,
like, older people and they
like, want to talk to the
younger people.
>> Mark: Those creepy people
she talked about wanted more
than just to talk to the girls.
They wanted to see them in the
flesh.
Some girls needed to be coaxed.
While others willingly played
along, exploring their own
budding sexuality.
Either way, there was a
growing online appetite and
audience for girls who liked
to perform like Amanda.
According to chat logs, one
day, she was on her webcam
with about 200 people watching
her on blog TV.
She then made a decision that
would haunt her forever.
Amanda lifted her shirt and
flashed for the camera and the
crowd.
It was a flash seen around the
world.
And that's when Tyler Boo
pounced, threatening to spread
the photo far and wide unless
she gave him more.
>> All those things you've
been doing for the past few
hours won't stop the shit storm
from coming.
Trust me.
Three shows and it all goes
away.
What's the big deal?
>> Mark: Amanda didn't give
her blackmailer what he
wanted.
Her topless picture was then
posted on a porn site.
Tyler Boo then sent a link to
that picture to all of Amanda's
Facebook friends including her
mother.
And what was your reaction
when you saw that in front of
your eyes?
>> It was one of those oh, my
god kind of moments, like
what's happening and why is
this here and where is it
going and why is it on a site
like this?
>> My reaction was worried,
what are you thinking, what
are you doing, where is it
coming from?
She played it off that she was
goofing around.
To her, it wasn't a huge big
deal.
>> Mark: But it was.
And it was about to get bigger.
Tyler Boo began to toy with
Carol.
He called himself Alice
McAlister and sent a message
to Carol telling her Amanda
was being extorted.
>> I am acting for an
independent online child
protection group and we
monitor especially sites where
many underaged girls get on
cam in front of old guys who
pretend to be 15.
She needs to be stopped
because most of them are old
guys who record her and
blackmail her into doing more.
>> Mark: Carol replied, who
are you, and where did you get
your information from?
This is now a police matter.
But how much of a matter was
it for the police?
It wasn't clear what, if
anything, they were doing to
track down the blackmailer.
Carol remembers the impact on
Amanda when she returned to
school as the girl in the
picture.
>> Embarrassment, anxiety,
depression.
She got, um, I guess the name
is slut-shamed, so, you know,
nicknames like cam-whore and
then questions about so are you
doing this on a regular basis
and porn star, and it just,
you know, for a child that's
in grade 7, it was very, um,
it killed her.
>> Mark: In a Facebook message
obtained by "The Fifth Estate,"
Amanda revealed how her distant
tormenter was setting his trap.
>> When I was 11 years old I
got a message saying I have
all your information, I will
come find you if you don't
flash and do this for me.
So I was scared.
I said one time, okay, so I
did it, and he said if I didn't
do it again, he would send to
all Port Coquitlam.
>> She knew that she did
something wrong, she also knew
that there is nothing that she
could do anymore because like
the damage was done.
>> Mark: Do you think it was
such a big deal, what she did?
>> Like not really.
Like I didn't think it was.
>> I didn't think it was like
that big.
Like, I thought it was just
going to be well, just like,
wait a couple months, it will
wear off.
>> It will die down, like you
know.
>> Mark: But it didn't die down,
it got worse.
It was May 2011, months after
his first threat, Tyler Boo was
back, repeating his demand for
more webcam shows.
Carol alerted the R.C.M.P.
>> There was no way that I was
ever going to say my daughter's
totally innocent, she would
never, ever do anything.
If I were an investigating
officer, I would have probably
taken her computer and checked
it out because regardless of
what she did, she was still an
underaged minor.
>> Mark: While Carol wanted
the police to protect her
daughter....
Amanda quickly learned she had
to protect herself.
This is one of the chats we
found on her laptop.
>> There are people out there
that can't talk to me or they
will be hated.
I never got the chance to go
out of my house and be a real
normal person.
Instead, now all I do is hide.
I'm always scared of what's
going to happen.
(♪♪)
>> Mark: Carol was scared, too,
scared of someone who was
out there online and afraid
the police weren't taking the
threats seriously, despite
the fact this had gone way
beyond online bullying.
This was blackmail or
sextortion, a new crime now
exploding on the Internet.
With many more victims like
Amanda.
When we come back, Amanda
takes on her tormenter.
>> Not gonna happen.
Do you want to meet me?
Come meet me right now or are
you too scared?
(♪♪)
(♪♪)
>> Mark: What Amanda Todd was
doing online was pretty
typical for many teenagers.
♪ You smile, I smile ♪
>> Mark: Chances are right now,
there is a teen girl in a room
on your street or in your
neighbourhood on a live
streaming webcam.
Doing something their parents
are completely oblivious to.
Though there are some
exceptions.
Like in this incident caught
on video...
(screaming)
>> Mom!
>> Mark: This girl's mother
barges into her daughter's
bedroom...
>> Mom, you cannot take my
personal items!
>> I don't know why you're so
sneaky.
>> I'm not sneaky!
>> Mark: And the show is shut
down.
But why would a girl flash in
the first place?
Well, Amanda's friends Shylah
and Tessa say they don't, but
with a little online flattery,
other girls will.
>> For most girls, it's like
the attention and wanting to
feel important in a way, I
guess.
>> Mark: And how does the
flattery work, like where is
that coming from?
>> Well, probably like he's
encouraging you to like, flash
so he's being nice and like,
talking to you.
>> Mark: But at the time, does
it seem like flattery or does
it seem like someone who's
really trying to trick you to
do something?
>> At the time, it seems like
flattery.
>> Mark: And that flattery is
laid on thick by a male
audience who systematically
stalk websites looking for
girls on their webcams.
>> Hi, everyone.
>> I'll do something interesting
once I know that you guys can
hear me and see me.
>> Mark: They're a new breed
of cyber predators who capture
the girls' images.
People like Tyler Boo.
They call themselves cappers.
Cappers then trade images like
Amanda's and post them on
websites.
Teenage girls...
Forever young...
Forever online.
Cappers even had a weekly
newscast posted on YouTube.
>> Welcome, cappers.
And cam-whores.
Another edition of The Daily
Capper.
>> Mark: The Daily Capper would
profile new girls who were
online, like Must-see TV, and
one of those girls was Amanda.
>> Another girl from blog has
been talked about a lot this
week.
Announcing Amanda.
>> Mark: Many girls may not
even know their images have
been captured and posted
online.
Unless, like Amanda, they're
blackmailed with demands for
more.
The cappers brazenly trade
tactics to get more nude
pictures from girls.
What they call a win.
"Hey, good news, got some pics
on her but possible blackmail
for some win.
Anyone any good on this or
suggestions on how?"
"Mail account seems permanently
blocked but I found her
Facebook, maybe she can be
blackmailed."
(♪♪)
>> Mark: Back in B.C., Carol
Todd was wondering how actively
the R.C.M.P. was trying to track
down Amanda's blackmailer.
She had contacted the R.C.M.P.
twice.
Sharing the online threats
with them.
If the Mounties had any leads
in their investigation, they
hadn't shared them with Carol.
>> There has to be ways to dig
into all that stuff regarding
who it might be.
>> Mark: And though she was
hopeful, she would soon learn
the blackmail was about to get
worse.
This video was recorded and
posted on a website.
Despite her parents' objections,
Amanda was still online.
And her online chat logs reveal
some of the attention she was
attracting was making the young
girl known as "Cutielover"
increasingly uncomfortable.
>> Some creepy guy is talking
to me.
Oh, my God.
I'm scared.
>> Mark: Her fears were
justified.
October 2011, it's been ten
months since the R.C.M.P.
had first been notified about
Amanda's case, and she
received another blackmail
threat.
>> This is the third request
to Amanda to reveal herself
and do something sexual on
cam.
>> Mark: The message was from
Tyler Boo.
>> Sup, cam-whore, been a while.
I didn't send the video last
time because I liked how you
whined.
But as you know, I have your
new school, new schoolmates,
new flash your parents haven't
seen.
You know the drill.
So three shows of 15 minutes
and then I won't send.
>> Mark: At first, Amanda
didn't respond.
But ignoring Tyler Boo
wouldn't make him disappear,
it would only make him angry.
>> You already forgot who I am?
The guy who last year made you
change school, got your door
kicked in by the cops.
You can give me three shows
and I will disappear forever.
You know I won't stop until
you give me those three shows.
If you go to a new school, new
bf, new friends, new whatever,
I will be there again.
I am crazy.
Yes.
So your answer?
>> Mark: Her answer was
revealing.
Amanda was digging in for a
fight.
>> Not gonna happen.
Do you want to meet me?
Come meet me right now or are
you too scared?
>> Mark: You've got pictures,
you've got e-mail addresses,
you know, you've got a campaign
here, a blackmail campaign.
>> Yep.
>> Mark: It's all right here.
What did you do with this?
>> When I got it?
>> Mark: Yep.
>> From Amanda?
I saved it.
Sent it to the R.C.M.P.
>> Mark: She gave the R.C.M.P.
more than evidence.
In an e-mail, she suggested
the police should set a trap
to catch the blackmailer.
Would baiting the fellow be of
any use?
Faced with the repeated sexual
extortion of a teenager, the
Mounties' blunt assessment?
"I would highly recommend that
Amanda close all her Facebook
and E-mail accounts at this
time.
If Amanda does not stay off the
Internet and/or take steps to
protect herself online, there is
only so much we as the police
can do."
Now, just think about what the
R.C.M.P. seemed to be saying
here.
Imagine a young girl being
stalked by a predator in a park.
Sure, the police would say
stay away from the park, but
we'd also expect them to do
their best to search the park
for the predator and we now
know, despite all the threats,
the R.C.M.P. had not, at this
point, formally requested help
from Facebook to try to uncover
the identity of Tyler Boo.
>> As a parent, absolutely feel
helpless and when the police
can't accomplish anything, what
does that tell you?
It's very difficult because
how can you comfort your
daughter or anybody when
you've got something that you
can't control yourself and
they can see that you can't
stop it or control it.
>> Mark: Carol says the R.C.M.P.
never tried to trap the stalker
by assuming Amanda's accounts,
though it is common practice by
police.
And sure enough, days later,
he was back.
>> It say November 12th.
>> M'hm.
>> Mark: Is the Facebook page.
>> Mm-hm.
>> Mark: Posing as a new student
at Amanda's school, Tyler Boo
creates a fake Facebook account.
This time he called himself
Austin Collins.
He connects with Amanda's
Facebook friends, then
switches his profile picture
to that infamous photo.
He posted this message with
the picture.
>> Sent to about 280 peeps.
Enjoy the shitfest.
>> Mark: As Amanda's pictures
spread, so did the damage
and so did her sense of
helplessness.
Tyler Boo was using Facebook
as a weapon.
So Amanda posted her own
online appeal, a teenager
trying to salvage her sinking
reputation.
>> I'm so sorry, everyone who
got the links.
I wasn't going to do it again
so then he sent it out.
Now all you guys got the link.
Judge me or be there for me.
But right now, I feel like
shit.
I feel so sad and sick.
But he's going to do it for
the rest of my life and
there's nothing I can do.
He made you all think he's a
young boy in his teens.
When he's over 30.
He's Tyler Boo, he's a sick
pedophile.
I really don't know what to do
anymore.
>> Mark: What do you see when
you see that picture now?
>> What do I see?
If only I could tell who was
at the other end.
Taking that picture.
If I had one dying wish, that
would be it, to find out who
started all this.
(♪♪)
>> Mark: But Tyler Boo wasn't
satisfied.
Around this time, a young girl
in a small town in Norway had
met someone online who called
himself Tyler Cee.
He had nude pictures of the girl
and now he wanted much more.
The script was all too familiar.
He was carefully preparing to
ruin another girl's life.
>> Hey, you will perform Skype
shows or else your friends,
family and authorities will
see your sexy pictures.
I will make you so famous,
your life will be a living hell.
I will put these videos and
your full name, address and
more on sites, I will do it
tomorrow.
You've had your chance.
>> Mark: The next day, Tylor Cee
makes a fake Facebook profile
with nude photos and links to
compromising videos.
He then sends it off to the
girls' Facebook friends.
Like the Todd family, the family
of the Norwegian teen went to
the police but unlike the Todds,
they quickly got results.
The police opened an
investigation and contacted
Skype asking for Tylor Cee's
IP address, that's the unique
set of numbers that identifies
an Internet connection.
And within days, they got it.
Tylor Cee was somewhere in the
Netherlands.
The police were closing in.
When we come back,
investigators start to build a
profile of Tyler Boo.
the level of sophistication off
this guy?
>> Well, he's using different
e-mail addresses, he's using
different websites, he's doing
a lot of things to help cover
his tracks so it shows a certain
level of sophistication.
(♪♪)
(♪♪)
>> Mark: By the summer of 2012,
Amanda Todd's young life had
been marked by months of
blackmail and bullying.
She'd been hospitalized for
depression and she started
cutting herself.
This is her on a good day, free
for a while from her tormenters.
Especially the one in Holland.
Meanwhile, Norwegian police
were closing in on Tylor Cee.
They now had an address where
they believe the stalker lived
in Holland.
And they urged the Dutch
police to investigate.
But Dutch police didn't.
And that would have tragic
consequences.
Back in B.C., Amanda was no
longer looking like the fighter
trying to stay strong and stand
up to Tyler Boo.
She was slowly being reduced
by the blackmail and the
bullying, according to her
family and friends.
>> It was creating anxiety.
>> Yeah.
>> Knowing that everyone has
seen your photo, no one can
let it go so she was feeling
sick and like, she didn't want
to be like, around people
because of that.
So, she just liked stayed
inside a lot and like, she just
wasn't like herself I feel like.
>> Yeah.
>> Mark: Amanda sent this
message to one of her online
friends which we found on her
laptop.
>> You know how many times
I've heard, nobody likes you
or wants you here, go back to
where you came from, or if you
died, I would throw a party?
Ever since all this happened,
I just cry myself to sleep
because it hurts no matter what.
Please, please just help me.
(♪♪)
>> Mark: Early September 2012,
Amanda Todd had spent most of
the summer inside her mother's
house, afraid to go out.
Afraid to be recognized as the
girl in that infamous photo.
But alone in her bedroom, she
had an idea.
>> She got the bug in her ear
to do the video and so she
started on this little project.
She wouldn't tell me what the
project was, but she told me
that she needed black markers
and she took all my white
paper.
Right?
And she made the video.
>> Mark: Amanda posted it on
Youtube and the online world
started watching.
But her parents say people
have misinterpreted the
meaning of the video.
>> People think that that was
a suicide video.
It was not.
It was a release.
She wanted her story out there,
especially to the people that
were harassing her.
>> It was very touching and
very sad of a wake-up call of
what my daughter's going
through.
>> Mark: Amanda's video
attracted more and more
attention.
Other kids could relate to her
struggle.
And sent her messages of
support.
She replied with this message
obtained by "The Fifth Estate."
>> It's finally nice to see
people care.
My family and my mom are the
ones trying to stay strong.
I booked November 28th to get
my Stay Strong tattoo on my
wrist so I can look at it and
stop myself.
People now call me crazy, but
I'm just going to keep my head
up.
Love and Cheers, Amanda.
>> Mark: Amanda never lived to
get her Stay Strong tattoo.
She took her life on October
10th in her mother's house,
alone.
>> The tattoo, that's in memory
of my daughter.
>> Mark: So her father Norm
got the Stay Strong tattoo for
Amanda.
Her ashes were mixed with the
ink.
Tell me about October 10th and
when you learned what had
happened to your daughter.
>> Um, I got a phone call...
I was in my lakehouse.
That was it.
Changed my life forever.
>> Mark: What was her last
message to you?
>> Um, that she loved me, to
not be mad at her.
That she would always be my
princess.
>> Mark: Amanda Todd's death
sparked an outpouring of grief
and anger.
Online vigilantes were trying
to track down the stalker but
they weren't alone.
Months before Amanda's death,
Facebook had received so many
complaints about the stalker,
they too were trying to find
him.
Amanda's death would kick that
investigation into overdrive.
With the help of our colleagues
from the Dutch TV program
"Zembla," "The Fifth Estate"
obtained a copy of Facebook's
report into Tyler Boo and what
they uncovered was astonishing.
Facebook discovered that Tyler
Boo, Austin Collins and Alice
McAllister were indeed all the
same person, but it was bigger
than that.
In fact, the stalker was using
more than 90 different screen
names and 86 different
Facebook accounts.
They were the tools of his
torment.
The investigators' conclusion?
Facebook found that the
suspect targeted more than 75
individual victims from around
the world, though that number
is likely to grow.
But finding him wouldn't be
easy.
The suspect is highly skilled
in identity obfuscation.
We took the Facebook report to
the Kingston Police and showed
it to Constable Stephanie Morgan
who profiles online predators.
What strikes you in terms of
the level of sophistication of
this guy?
>> Well, he's using different
e-mail addresses, he's using
different websites.
He's using all kinds of
different applications on the
Internet, he's using proxies to
cover his IP address.
He's doing a lot of things to
help cover his tracks and so
it shows a certain level of
sophistication.
>> Mark: How much harder does
that make to find a guy like
this?
>> We're moving ahead, we're
forging ahead, unfortunately
not always as fast as the
offenders out there online.
>> Mark: Facebook couldn't
pinpoint his address, but they
knew this much, Tyler Boo was
in Holland but who was he?
When we come back, police
finally unmask the man they
believe is behind the blackmail.
(♪♪)
(♪♪)
>> Mark: After Amanda Todd's
death, her heartbreaking video
describing the pain of her
sextortion went viral.
Viewed tens of millions of
times.
Whether Tyler Boo ever watched,
we may never know.
But police investigators say
even after Amanda's suicide,
he was still looking for more
victims.
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>> Mark: Just months after
Amanda's suicide in a small town
in Holland, another teenager who
had flashed online was now being
threatened by someone named
Kelsey and Kelsey was demanding
more.
>> Put something sexy on and
send cam.
>> What happens if I don't do
it?
>> You don't want to know.
Ha ha.
>> Tell me everything.
I'm half broken anyway.
>> I can find your friends and
family and send it to them but
only let it play for ten minutes
and then it disappears.
>> Do you please want to do
this to another girl?
There are so many.
Why me?
>> Mark: The girl reported
Kelsey to the Dutch police.
But it took the police six
months to follow up.
In that time, the girl was so
scared, she fled the Netherlands
to live with her father.
So police in three different
countries were now investigating
three stalkers.
Kelsey in Holland, Tylor Cee
in Norway and Tyler Boo in
Canada.
Facebook had spent months
connecting the dots.
The report leads police to
conclude all three were the
same man and he was in
Holland.
When that report landed on the
desk of the Dutch police, they
finally sprang into action.
Dutch police trace the computer
to a bungalow park in southern
Holland, someone who lived
nearby was tapping into that
computer's wi-fi.
Police would soon arrest Aydin
Coban, among the nine charges
against him, the production
and distribution of child porn,
indecent assault and fraud.
His lawyer Christian van Dijk
is still pouring through
mounds of evidence but he
insists his client is a quiet
man, not some internet
predator.
>> My client is 36 years old,
Turkish-Dutch citizen, a calm
and decent person as I know
him.
He remains silent till this
moment, and that's all I can
say about it.
>> Mark: Van Dijk contends
Dutch police illegally hacked
into his client's computer.
He argues much of the evidence
should be thrown out.
>> A suspect has been
identified, he's been arrested,
and he has been charged.
>> Mark: Back in B.C., the
R.C.M.P. were expressing their
glee.
Even though they had little to
do with the investigation.
Carol and Norm were just happy
someone was caught.
>> In no way do we want
anything to come in the way of
making sure that due process
is completed.
>> And I'm just really glad
that we finally have a suspect
arrested.
>> Mark: Here, November 2013.
We showed Carol the Facebook
report.
It was the first time she had
got a glimpse of the case
against the man accused of
tormenting her daughter.
>> It's a sick person.
It's someone that's preying on
innocent children.
Right?
Someone who knew what he was
doing.
>> Mark: And it was also
Carol's first glimpse of the
chats between the two,
revealing how Amanda was
trying to fight back.
>> He was very persistent when
you look at the kinds of
conversations, right?
And here's Amanda, just -- she's
goading him, come meet me, come
here, we'll catch you here, and
he's going no, no, and so are
you scared of airplanes, right?
She's trying -- and it probably
made him angrier that she was
finally sticking up, she was
not going to do anymore
pictures or she wasn't going
to do anything for this guy.
>> Mark: Amanda's bedroom sits
pretty much the way she left
it two years ago, a monument
to loss, loss that Carol still
struggles with.
Even more so after learning
Norwegian police had a lead on
Amanda's tormenter months
before her suicide.
But Dutch police didn't act on
the lead.
>> It's really hard to sit as a
parent and think that someone
sat on a file for two years and
it's your kid's life.
>> Mark: Why weren't they
listening?
>> They're the only ones that
can tell us.
And if it was their child,
what would they have done?
So I don't know the answers.
I don't know, I don't know
what the right answers would
be.
But I would sure like to hear,
hear them.
It's just seems like, you know,
another failure to the system.
>> Mark: A spokesman for the
prosecutor's office in the
Netherlands says, at the time,
Dutch police had other
priorities than tracking down
the stalker.
And that's the cruel reality
of policing.
>> We have to make choices,
difficult choices sometimes,
and it might have been that we
chose for another investigation
about this letter of request.
It's possible.
There were other investigations
ongoing at the moment where we
used the capacity for.
>> Mark: And the cruel reality
of the Internet?
There are still many more
predators out there just
looking for their next victim.
>> The images were of young
girls, always between the age
of 10 and 12 --
>> Mark: Here in Canada, at
least, Amanda's death has
changed the way police officers
deal with cases of sextortion,
according to Stephanie Morgan
from the Kingston Police.
>> Amanda Todd is always in
the back of your mind when you
deal with these cases and
harassment type cases online.
Her name is always there.
I can speak for myself and I
think I can speak for other
officers who deal with these
types of offences that she's
always there.
>> Mark: And what difference
does that make?
>> It makes you wonder if, you
know, if, in the case you're
dealing with, if there's another
Amanda Todd out there just on
the brink of doing something
traumatic.
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>> Mark: Knowing what you
know now, who failed Amanda?
>> I don't think it was any
one organization.
I think it was all of us.
It was, you know, your social
media networking, your --
maybe your police authorities.
I don't think we took Amanda a
hundred percent seriously
until after she died.
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>> Mark: Aydin Coban isn't
expected to go on trial until
some time next year.
Meanwhile, police in Europe,
United States, and here at
home are following up on other
leads uncovered during the
investigation, trying to
identify some of the more than
75 alleged victims around the
world.
Now, in the course of doing
this story on Amanda, we
discovered ten of those
victims are in Canada.
We'll continue to investigate.
Stay with us.
"The Fifth Estate" will return.
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