Something Was Wrong - S14 E9: Mind F*ck
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Thank you so much for listening. You thinkin' on me, you don't know me well
Head on, head on
It got full of love
Don't be alone
You don't know anybody until you turn to someone.
The four of us, we got on board, we were like, okay, we're all going to post and we'll
share everything that we can.
We went public.
Each of us, we're not going to be anonymous anymore.
We're just going to post about ourselves
and our stories and own it.
We put the evidence as much as we could
that was tangible evidence that people
could see whether it was screenshots or court documents,
anything along those lines.
We were deciding what we would post, what we wouldn't.
But the plan was we would put it all out there and leave it. And that way, if anybody searched for him, they would
find that Instagram and would be able to see it. It was never something that we were like, oh yeah,
we'll continue to post on here. I don't think any of us even thought we were going to get other
people reaching out to us. So when the other women started following, a lot of it was word of mouth. We weren't
really doing anything to advertise this. I think people were talking about the Instagram and
sharing it with their friends. Like, oh, did you see this? We would get sometimes upwards of
100 friend requests today that we would have to go through. I was trying to be extremely careful.
Like, hey, we should look up what is allowed and what isn't they weren't venting post they were very matter of the
fact like hey this is my experience take with that what you will you can't really
say what someone's going to do you can provide the patterns and let them
piece together what someone's behavior is probably gonna be. I feel like that
was really our only duty. I think people can really change I hope that he changes
and becomes a better person,
but I think if you're looking at the patterns and what he's done up until this point, it's just
truly not in the cards for him or he has no true desire to change. This guy's been at the bottom
of the barrel rock bottom and still has not chosen to change any of his behavior. I don't know that
that day will ever come for him. With that said, I wanted other people who might have been affected
or would consider dating him.
So really see for themselves
and do with that information what they will.
So we make that Instagram public.
From the Instagram, we learned a lot about his narrative
and what he was spinning.
It sounded like he was maybe morphing,
Mimi and I into one person
so that he didn't have to kind of explain which ex-wife
he was talking about as far as this podcast goes when you're listening to certain women's accounts
will say what he said and it might not match up to what it should match up to. That's by design
I think he did that on purpose. The same goes with Ivy and Emerson. I think that
he says, my daughter, he groups Ivy and Emerson into one person, or maybe is just acknowledging
Emerson and disregarding Ivy, which is also awful and horrendous.
I remember going and following people that I had remembered that had stuck out in our time
period together, and sure enough, we were kind of laughing. I was like 20 for 20 each of them that I had
followed they reached out with a story and this is when a change happened for me
of really trusting my gut. I don't think your gut leads you astray and getting
that kind of confirmation really helped me heal in so many ways. The whole time
I was reopening some wounds
and replaying so many things in my head,
that was off and this was off
and this was what was truly happening at the time.
So many women came forward with like, yeah,
like I was with him right before this trip
and this trip, we all have different stories
and different narratives of the exact same thing.
It was a wild ride.
That page started getting circulated in the Seattle area.
And before I knew it, we're getting hundreds of followers a day. It happened so fast, I didn't even
know what was happening and we didn't know what to do with it at that point. February is when I
found out about the Instagram, Marches, when it took off. Women started coming forward.
My name's Kit and I met Jake on Facebook dating. We dated for approximately
month. Jake's profile he described himself as a kind and gentle man. We chatted a lot on the app
and then we exchanged numbers. We chatted pretty constantly all day long. He was super charming,
funny, attentive,
all the things that he wants somebody to be asking
all the right questions, all the right answers.
He really pushed to meet that day.
And normally I probably would have said no,
this sounds funny, but it was my hair washing night.
And I'm usually like, yeah, it's my hair washing night.
I don't want to go anywhere.
But he was so attentive.
I was just out of a bad relationship. I really wanted to keep that momentum because as we know in
online dating, people are talking to lots of people and if you're not attentive and engaged in
that moment, they move on to the next person. I was enjoying the conversation and he pushed to meet
that night. He lives kind of on the other side of town for me and he got a jump bike and rode to my
neighborhood bar in the rain, which I thought was super sweet. He opened doors, he paid for everything,
he was very quiet, soft-spoken, thoughtful in his conversation and his responses. I think we were at the bar for like four or five hours. He asked to hold my hand.
We like to do a lot of the same things.
We had a really nice time.
The only thing I can think of looking back that was a red flag,
I feel like any time a man doesn't have visitation with a child,
that's something to really pause and think about.
Why that is. I think I'm going to have to go back to the point Anytime a man doesn't have visitation with a child,
that's something to really pause and think about
why that is.
I drove him home that night because it was pouring down rain.
He'd driven on the bike that way.
And we talked in the car for another lengthy amount
of time when I got there.
He invited me in, I didn't go.
He kissed me on the cheek and told me
that he'd love to see me again tomorrow.
I left feeling like things were great.
We continued to see each other pretty frequently
every couple days until there was a blow up.
Looking back, I can see, oh my God,
why didn't I stop this then?
I had started to notice some things
that Jake could be really pessimistic, kind of
easily irritated when things didn't go smoothly. Like if traffic was really bad, he would be in the
car just like relentlessly bitching. I'm not a negative person, so that would bother me.
One of the reasons I've chosen to be anonymous is that I'm HSV positive, which I shared with Jake on our second date and was not a big deal to him, but concerning that he was given her, I believe it was Goneria in
her throat.
There's that concern as well that I don't think he takes his sexual health.
He doesn't make it a priority.
Our first date, he paid for everything, but we were just at this little dive bar and we
drank beers and whiskeys.
Whatever bill was probably 30 bucks.
The second night when we went out, we went to watch the sunset at this
cute little park, and then we went out and he forgot his wallet. After our first date, Jake never
ever paid for anything. He constantly talked about how broke he was and how he didn't make any money
and how he had to save every penny for this custody battle for his daughter. He really presented it in a way that he felt sorry for him, but yet he always seemed
to have money.
We went to the North Face outlet because he basically all he wears is North Face, and he
bought bags and bags of clothes.
Later, he had money that he claimed that he got from a benefactor and he bought an
electric bike. And then it was, hey, can you step at REI and pick up this helmet for me and I'll pay
you back. I pick up the helmet, which was stupid expensive. Of course, he never paid me back.
We went to REI and he needed to go to work afterwards. We were at his house, I offered to drive him down there. We got to REI and we kind of had a small window of time.
I needed to get something, he needed to get something.
I got what I needed and I went to find him.
One of the things that I noticed is sometimes in stores
and things he would walk really far ahead of me.
We went there together, but it didn't feel
like we were there together. I went there together, but it didn't feel like
we were there together.
I went and found him and I was just like,
hey, you know, I think we probably gotta get going.
You're gonna be late.
They ignored me and I walked away.
And then we got to the car.
I didn't have the parking ticket.
New big deal, whatever.
Like they'll let you out.
So I'm not upset about it.
And he is flipping out.
He's like, I can't believe he lost the fucking ticket.
He's just making this big dramatic thing about it.
And I'm like, it's okay, they're gonna let us out.
He said, you're probably gonna have to pay the full day rate.
And I said, you know what, Jake, I don't care.
If I have to pay the full day rate, it's fine.
And he's like, wow, that's such a waste of money.
It must be nice to have all this money to waste
when I'm struggling to take care of my kids.
I, at this time, shut up.
We get to the exit and there's some woman who,
I don't know what her deal was,
but she's trying to back out.
I have a big car in SUV.
And so I'm trying to back it out, not my strong skill.
It's also really narrow.
And he's yelling at me the whole time
about how I'm gonna fuck up my car and how stupid I am. I'm like stunned. I'm sitting there
literally in total silence. The woman backs out and I pull up to the call box where you would normally
pay for your ticket. I push the button and they don't answer right away. And he literally screens
in my face that he didn't have time to be late because of a careless bitch and he was going to go
in and give the ticket. So he gets out of the car and slams the door and I'm just sitting there like
what the fuck just happened. They come on and I'm like, hey, I lost my ticket.
They're like, oh, yeah, no big deal.
They let me out.
I don't pay for anything.
I park across the street and his stuff is still in my car.
Finally, he comes back to the car.
It's like 15, 20 minutes later.
We could already left.
He would have been home by now.
And he gets in the car, slams the door,
and starts yelling at me again. So I'm driving
him home and complete silence. He yells the entire way. And now he is late. We get there
and he gets out, slams the door, walks away. He texted me after that, apologizing, telling
me how I had put his job at risk. by doing that potentially ruined his ability to see his daughter because he wasn't going to be able to pay all
of this money that he owes for backtracks work. At the appointment I had after
that I was recounting the story to my friend who turns out new him and was able
to share some rather scary things about Jake. I don't want to use her name, but she
knew him personally. And when I was describing him, because we always talk about my dating
life, she was like, wait, I know this guy. And she was like, oh my God, you need to stop
dating him right away. She said, I know that when he was in a relationship with Mimi, he
had multiple affairs. She said that she was positive that he had a history
of domestic violence and assault.
And in her words, God only knows what else he has done
that people don't know about.
She said he was an awful, awful person.
Had someone told me this in the beginning,
I probably would have been like, what?
Because he presents so calm, so chill and unbothered. I went home and I
decided to do a background check. My advice to any woman he
was thinking about dating someone seriously always do a
background check. I learned that lesson from this. And when I
did the background check, it was eye opening, sure enough,
domestic violence. So it doesn't tell you who are or why and I found out later at least one of those charges was
against his child but after that after I found the domestic violence charges and
looked at his record I never responded to his text again and I I never saw him
again he had sent me the message apologizing I hadn't responded he sent me a message
again saying hey I just want to apologize again. I was so frustrated, but then also blaming me because
of you, this happened. I didn't respond. And then later that, I think it was that afternoon
or the next afternoon, he messaged me again, but it was like, oh, so now you're just not
going to talk to me. You did this. I never responded, and then I never heard from him again.
Did he ever film you without your consent?
I don't know, but after I read all of the comments in there,
that has been a concern.
Did he ever ask to film you?
No.
During sex, he was constantly asking for consent.
And at first, it was like, oh that's so nice
and then after we'd slept together a couple times and it made me wonder what had happened in the past
that made him. I never once thought I was being filmed. I thought that something had maybe happened
previously and he was just being super careful. Now I have definite concerns that I was taped.
Ironically, both of my sons live a few blocks from Jake,
and I was driving my one-son home after lunch,
and I was like, ugh, that's where that Jake lives, blah, blah, blah.
And I was like, wait a minute, you probably know him,
because my one-son's super involved in social justice movement in Seattle.
And he was like, oh my god, you went on a date with him.
All I've heard is what a dick that guy is.
Two days later, my son saw the page.
It was being shared in the social justice movement groups,
kind of as a warning to women.
My son sent it to me and he was like, oh my god, mom, you have to look at this.
At first, I thought it was Jake's page.
Like, he posted something
down which would have been unusual for him because I think he keeps a pretty tight reign on his
social media. When I opened it I started reading all the accounts of women.
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Hi, I'm Maria. My story starts with Jake personally in 2021.
I had originally heard about him in 2020 because he worked for a company called Converge,
which was covering the protests here in Seattle.
I was really drawn to a photojournalism and the rawness that was being captured and the
important message that was going out. I thought, wow, this person is really dedicated to the cause and found it admirable and was drawn
into that. We had matched on Tinder January 2021. He had in his bio converge. His bio was really
captivating and well written, the lining with the things that I was looking for and somebody that I was interested in
and get great photos.
But he never reached out, I never reached out,
I dropped off the app.
I dated somebody briefly for like six months.
December, I saw on Instagram,
they suggest friends or suggest people you may know
based on people that you follow.
At the time I followed Converge,
I was like, this person looks familiar
and wow, you should converge.
I didn't really put two and two together
that it was the Tinder person until later.
I started following him on Instagram.
I was drawn to his photos and drawn to the captions.
We started bantering a little bit back and forth
based on his stories or like different things happening
at Seattle.
He was very basic.
As the days went on, it became a little more personal.
There's little tidbits here and there.
And it was also right before Christmas.
And I was very much in a place where I wanted to connect
with somebody and it felt good.
I just come out of this relationship.
And so the connection was something
that I definitely was very drawn to.
The conversation was great.
He was very complimentary.
And we ended messaging back and forth constantly
one night. He was like, I'm working at the studio. Would you like to FaceTime? It would be easier
because I'm editing photos. I was like, oh sure, that would be great. We ended up FaceTimeing for
several hours and having great conversations. It turned into like a little more personal details.
I was like, well, this person seems really cool. Seems like somebody that I would want to get to know
and hang out with.
I just wasn't really sure if it was on the same level
that he was feeling the same way.
I was also like, wow, with many days are very much like,
I don't want to text you, or I don't even want to make a phone call.
So I was very drawn by the fact that he was interested in wanting to face time.
Like, this is a mature man.
He's not afraid of this kind of stuff.
The next day, we're texting back and forth quite a bit.
He was bringing me along, so to speak via text.
I was like, well, this is great.
This is kind of fun.
During the conversations he was at work
or he was with Amari,
what I gathered from the conversations that we had
together about Converge and Amari.
And also what the post that kind of like drew me to him
was a picture of him and Amari
I believe it was a baseball game and it was this long caption about how Amari is a mentor and
Amari is a friend and he's much more than a friend. He's become family and it was very much like we are close.
When he and I were texting that the second day or a third day, Amari was with him.
We messaged during that day, he said, hey, I have tickets to the Nutcracker with my work.
Are you interested in going? I have an extra ticket. And I was like, wow, okay, a man that wants to go to the Nutcracker.
Wow, this is interesting. I was like, yeah, let me see what I can do. I would love to go.
He made it seem like, oh, wow, I wasn't planning on taking anybody. I normally go to these things alone.
Oh, my gosh, I got to go home and change, freshen up, I'm gonna cut my hair, I wanna look good for you and I was like,
oh my God, okay.
He very much like, I usually go to things alone.
I don't have anybody to take with me, I love this.
Which now we know his blatant life.
It's just these small little details that you notice later
about little things to get women to feel like.
Oh wow, he knows what he's doing.
And meanwhile, I'm thinking, what a compliment.
He's decided to come out of the shell
and invite me to a lovely event.
I went and picked him up.
We go into the net cracker.
We're seated in front of one of the converged people
and they're lovely.
I don't think he introduced me,
but they were definitely friends and very friendly.
It wasn't just like I didn't introduce you
because I didn't know the person's name.
Later, Mari came up and was like, hey, Jay, they're like very cordial.
He doesn't introduce me, but I'm sitting there waiting for him.
These are his friends, but he didn't.
For the first half, we were definitely sitting there awkwardly.
You don't know whether to like sit too close or so.
You know what I mean? So you're just kind of sitting there a little frozen.
Once the intermission happened, we were walking around.
Mari came up and was talking to Jake
and they were chit-chatting
and he took a picture of Jake and I together
up the nutcracker.
But what I thought was interesting was
the conversion who were all hanging out in a group
and he didn't really take me
and usher me over to that group.
It was very much like a separate from them.
And I thought that was kind of weird.
I tend to be more of a people pleaser.
So later I would ruminate on,
oh my gosh, was I being standoffish.
I was hard on myself for that happening.
We went in for the second act.
I made a move, our arms touched.
And then we started holding hands
and he kind of moved in and hand on the leg
and stuff like that.
And it was like, oh, this feels nice.
When it was over, said device to everybody.
At that point, in my head, I'm like,
oh, it might be fun to hang out with this person after,
but it's very awkward.
I was driving him home.
And I was like, oh, where is that place you want to take me?
He's like, oh, we'll do it another time.
And he got weird about it.
I was like, okay, whatever.
We drive him to his house and he was like,
oh, do you want to come up? And I was like, okay, whatever. We drive into his house and he was like, oh, do you want to come up?
And I said, okay, so I kind of placed a park. The area that he lives in is not necessarily
an area that I would be feel safe as a woman walking in by myself. What's late at this point is
10 o'clock. I'm dressed up. I'm wearing four-inch heels. So we park down around the block. He's
holding my hand. Some of the things that I really enjoyed about him was that we had a lot of similar interests
in traveling and national geographic and photography and more than just boring subjects.
We'd come up and it's cute.
He invites me to sit down and we'd engage in conversation about his favorite books and
about his trips.
He would show me some of his photos from the trip that he just went on with Converge to Mexico.
It was very much just really, could have innocent conversation revolving around shared likes.
I felt very comfortable. We were getting closer. This was a person that I could maybe like start to trust.
We don't weren't touching, we weren't kissing, we weren't doing anything like that.
But we were just enjoying each other's company or so I thought. Then he said,
oh, do you want to see the photos from the trip? I said yes. And so we moved to his couch and he
was showing me them on his TV. It was nice. We start kissing. It was fine and whatnot. But then
he started to ask, is this okay? Are you okay with this? Like every minute at first when he was asking for consent
Like if he moved his hand or something, I was like, oh, that's nice. Wow
I'm a man that's wanting to be
Consensual and understanding that I can say yes or no at any point. I was like, wow, that's great
But then as the moments were on and it kept happening
It seemed more forced now looking back,
like something had happened in the past
that he was now covering his bases.
And it was more about him and less about me.
We're making out and things got a little more hot and heavy
and he was like, hey, do you wanna stay the night?
I was like, okay, let me see.
We moved to the bedroom and we were just kind of laying down
and making out.
But for us, I was like, I don't wanna have sex. Let's just enjoy this. So we made out for a while and then
the way that he was touching me was more like he was wanting to, in some ways, wear me down
to consent to him, to having sex. And eventually I did give in and he was like, are you sure? Are
you sure? In the back of my mind, I was torn. I was like, yes, no, yes, no.
I want to, like the body says yes.
It's a hard thing to figure out.
At the end of them, like, yeah.
I was like, do you have a condom?
You got a condom and we had sex.
Then he was like, are you spending the night?
Are you spending the night?
He was very insistent on me spending the night.
I don't normally like spending the night either.
That's not something I like to do normally.
But I also was like, it's in the middle of the night
and I don't necessarily feel comfortable walking
to my car.
So I stayed the night.
I didn't sleep.
I was tossing an attorney and he was out.
Where I had parked, I had to be moved by,
I had to leave at 7 a.m.
My alarm went off and I was hurriedly getting ready.
I knew that he had to be up.
And so I was expecting him to walk me to my car
or get up and see me to the door.
And it was very much like, don't let the door hit you
on the way out, type of thing.
I was like, okay.
And so I was just getting ready and walking out.
I just kind of clans up.
It is room.
And I was like, is that a camera?
And I was like, no, a camping.
And I knew that he had a camera in his living room.
In my mind, I was like, he wouldn't have a camera.
I'm just tripping.
That's not a camera.
Somebody wouldn't do that.
It was just so foreign to me that that wouldn't even
be a possibility.
Later, I discovered the Instagram page,
and I was like, oh my god, I'm not tripping.
This is crazy.
So I left and I was carrying my shoes in my hand
and still kind of dark and I'm walking
to my car in an unsafe neighborhood.
He didn't even get out of bed.
He was just like, the door will lock behind you on no way out.
It was that day that things started to get weird.
It was right around Christmas, so I was trying to be a little more cognizant of the fact
that the holidays are hard.
He had talked about a daughter that his ex-wife had taken away from him and he had this
well-sob story that was definitely trying to paint her as horrible.
Mom separating him from his daughter,
he was like, the holidays are hard for me
and I was like, I understand.
I would try to reach out and he was very abrupt in his texts.
They were very much delayed.
It was opposite of what it had been
when he was trying to pursue me.
The holidays happened.
He's like, I'm staying home.
He made this big deal about,
I can't believe people are getting together
for the holidays.
People are getting together in the group
but just disgust me.
I'm gonna hang out at home for several days.
And I'm like,
dude, you just went to the neck rocker.
What are you talking about?
I get both points but don't try to like,
oh, now I want my alone time and make it a thing.
I reached out to him a little bit
and I was like, Merry Christmas. He didn't really respond. Another thing is, at the time,
he had three phones, if not four phones. And so I was like, what phone number do I have?
As the days went on, he was being less responsive. And actually, over the Christmas thing,
he didn't even respond to me. It was several days later. I was still reeling and healing from the relationship that I was in before that I was very
raw and very sensitive to these kind of rejections, like, oh no, what did I do?
Type things. It was several days after the holiday. We started messaging back
and forth and he was very current and like, you're being too much. The holidays
are hard on me. It was a very different tone, blaming me.
Like you're overwhelming me with messages.
And like, I'm not.
It was just such a bait and switch that I was stunned.
We started messaging back and forth a little bit
and it turned sexual, we're messaging
and I'm getting into it and I'm like,
oh, this guy's, he was just a funk.
This is a way to reconnect or whatever.
I don't know.
I wasn't looking for a serious boyfriend.
I was looking for something very casual, for just casual and sex based.
That can be great.
At one point, he's like talking about, I don't know how graphic it would be, but like,
he's talking about, he's like hard and he's like, you should come do something about
a for me.
Otherwise, I will need to take care of it myself.
Kind of making me feel bad bad like this is your fault.
He was at work.
They had offices downtime and he would be in the office editing videos for his video series.
And he was like, this is my makeup break.
I have to focus on my career.
I can't do anything else.
I have spent all my extra free time editing.
So he was there in the office editing various things for his video series that they were helping him produce.
He was like, I'm at work right now. Why don't you come down and we can mess around.
He's like, there's a shower locker room. And I was like, okay, this sounds kind of fun and like a little scandalous.
But it was also, he was very much pressuring me in some ways. I was with family at the time.
He's like, tell me you need to run to the store for provisions.
And I was like, okay, fine, I'll come down.
I drove in the snow, he gives me the directions,
and he's outside meeting me and lets me in.
And it's this very old downtown Seattle building,
police show, lobby, like marble, it's gorgeous.
He walks me through this service door
down this very beige hallway.
He gets to the door, he points, he's like, through that door is the studio.
We can't go in there because it's covered with cameras
and then he opens the door and it's like a cell.
There's a shower stall, there's a shower bench,
there's a toilet, there's a sink,
and he's automatically grabbing me.
I'm into it so it's like, I wasn't not consenting
but I was like, this is weird.
You know, he sits down and he's wanting me to go down on him. I do. He pulled his camera
out and he was filming us. I gave my consent because it's like, if I, okay, with it, then
it's one thing. But if I'm not knowing about it, it's another. So I was like, yeah, that
would be great. That could be something fun for us to watch later. And then he was just
like, let's have sex for a minute, but he didn't have a condom. And I was like, yeah, that would be great. That could be something fun for us to watch later. And then he was just like, let's have sex for a minute,
but he didn't have a condom and I was like,
ugh, we did it for like, really quick.
And then I was like, I don't feel comfortable with this.
Before I can even say it, he pushed me off of him.
He's like, get off, get off.
And then shoved my head back down onto him
because he was coming too quickly, I guess.
The fastest it had started, it ended.
Once it was over, he was sort of being nice,
but he got really weird.
I'm buckling up my pants and he's re-adjusting himself.
As quickly as it started, he's assuring me back out the door,
back through the lobby.
It doesn't walk me through my car,
it doesn't even watch me watch my car.
He stands up the door and is like, bye.
What the fuck just happened?
I just got fucking used and this dude got weird
because perhaps his performance wasn't up to his standards
or he got embarrassed or whatever.
After I left, I was like, it was nice seeing you.
I had a good time.
I was trying to smooth it over.
Again, I'm a people pleaser, so I'm in my feelings,
but I'm trying to make it feel okay.
I made a comment, oh, send me the video.
I bet it's hot or whatever.
And he just got weird sick.
I got to go back to work.
And I was like, okay.
He was gonna go walk home.
I was like, let me know you.
You got home, okay?
It's really icy out there.
His walk was uphill.
It was the night we're on.
He didn't check in with me.
I finally reached out.
I was like, did you get a home safe?
And he was like, yep, very short, very court answers.
And I was like, what the fuck is happening?
Why is this person being so weird and so standoffish?
And so rude, he kept refusing to send me the video
that he took of us in the locker room.
When I would ask him, he would just ignore the question
or be like, oh, it's on my other phone.
He finally sent me a message and said something along the lines.
I told you, this is makeup break times my career.
And I have to focus on working.
You are pushing past my personal boundary when I've asked for space
and I've asked you not to text me.
And I'm like, what are you talking about?
Where is this coming from?
We've gone from bantering.
Got a regular level to you now
being like, don't text me at all.
It's just very weird.
He kept using the word boundaries.
He was using it in a way to invoke
like I did something wrong.
He's like, you're violating my boundaries.
I try to be very aware of what personal boundaries are.
I want people to be respectful of mine.
When he said that, I was like, oh no.
And I felt very guilt-ridden. I felt a text I apologize I understand what you're doing I was very
contrite with how I felt I had wronged him and he was just like thank you. I realized that he
had blocked me on Instagram stories and I was like what the fuck this is weird I said why did you
block me?
Did I do something wrong?
That was his response to that.
After that boundary's conversation,
I think that I reached out to him a couple times.
Like, oh, I saw this post or I saw something like,
oh, this remind me of you.
You might be interested in it.
We had some shared interest.
And he would respond cordially, but nothing
soliciting any sort of, oh, I'd like to see you again
or anything like that.
It was very business-like.
I was in my feelings, feeling very raw about it,
trying to navigate what had happened, basically.
It was just felt like a mind-fuck.
I sent him a podcast about a subject that we enjoyed,
and he wrote back, I don't listen to podcasts,
I'm too busy, I'm not a podcast person.
It was very rude, and I was like,
oh my fucking god, fuck you basically. I didn't say that. I blocked his number. I deleted him and
blocked him on all social media. I went dark essentially. I was like, I need to go off social
media. This is too much. I just need a time to breathe. So that was the last interaction
that I had with him. And it wasn't until I think a month later, like at the beginning of February,
I think it was that I reactivated my account. And I don't know if it was like people you might know.
I don't remember exactly how I found the Jake page. And I was like, oh, maybe he has an
Instagram. So I looked at it. And then I looked at the caption. I was like, oh, maybe he has an Instagram. So I looked at it and then I looked at the caption I was like, wait, what? Because it's talking about survivors of the abuse. I was like, wait a minute, wait a minute.
I friend it it and once I was accepted, I fell down the rabbit hole of their posts, their stories, and I commented on one of them.
And we started a conversation with us and they're like, maybe we asked how you know Jake. And so I told them my story when I just told you everything was making sense.
It was very healing to me.
Oh, I'm not crazy.
This person is a psychopath.
This person is an abuser.
This person absolutely has no morals is a user.
And every single thing that this person told me is straight up lie.
I was delving into one of their posts.
I think it was maybe from Kaelin
about finding the recordings of other women on his computer.
And I was like, my gut was not wrong.
My gut was absolutely spot on.
So much makes sense.
I felt heard once I found the page,
I hate that this has been something
that many, many women have encountered within. I was just very stunned, stunned, and also like, wow, I knew, I knew something was right.
I can trust my instinct. Like, say, like the five stages of grief.
My next was anger. How fucking dare you? You know what I mean? Wow. This is what you're doing.
Now, this has happened. Like, where do I go from here? What's the next step? What's the next move? What's the level of accountability that will be held? What is the legal ramifications
for him doing this? There's video of me, but I assume that there is. I want him held accountable
for that. It's heartbreaking to see so many women having the same story, but it corroborates
what he is capable and what he has done. I think that with this podcast,
what's gonna happen because he traveled so much for work is that I think that his abuses
span countries and span definitely states. Some of the videos that I saw from the page of him yelling,
I was so thankful that my time with him was so limited. And my heart goes out to the women that endured for so much longer.
It's just mind-boggling to me the damage that he's done.
When one of the women mentioned to me
about doing this podcast with you, I said,
listen, if it saves somebody, then it's worth it.
Because he's not stopping.
He's still on social media apps.
He's still out.
Somebody saw him in a date recently.
I don't think that he has it within him to stop. So if it saves anyone from going down that same road,
it's definitely worth it.
Hi, I'm Clementine. I met Jake on Tinder in February of 2021. We matched and started talking a lot.
Some days we would talk all day
and then I wouldn't really hear from him.
We were trying to make plans to meet up.
This was during COVID before vaccine.
So dates were very much like, let's go walk and talk.
I made it pretty clear to him that I didn't want
to meet during the night because of a previous assault
on a first date. This sticks out to me more than most of anything. I told him that I want to meet during the night because of a previous assault on a first date.
This sticks out to me more than most of anything.
I told him that I want to meet during the day,
just for safety reasons, and he said to me,
I protect women at all costs.
That was like, oh, this guy gets it.
I'm always on alert, like most women are
when they meet someone for the first time,
but I was like, okay, that's a good sign.
We meet up and we decided
to walk around and get to know each other. I give my hug and he said, I haven't been hugged in
months, which I was like, oh, how sweet. I'll hug you. We watched the sunset. We had the amazing
conversation. I felt a connection with him. One of my biggest passion in life is hiking.
I don't really need a lot of hikers, especially men with lots of tattoos who like good music,
who want to talk about
Ike so I was really excited about that and we seemed to connect. He was really charming, but respectful. We went to dinner, he paid, he didn't make any moves, we walked and talked for a few more hours, and I was the one who was like, hey, when we go back to your place, I definitely wasn't thinking anything more than just like more chatting, but I was enjoying myself. This is during COVID and I was really lonely. We had been locked down for like a year.
Throughout the night, he made a lot of jokes about his ex-wife. He was very casual about it. Like,
oh, uh-huh, she's in Seattle. That's why it's raining over there because she's there. He was recently
divorced when we met. When we got back, she to his apartment He went into it more said that she was abusive and that she
Had gained weight and didn't want to sleep with him and he had told her how beautiful she was all the time
She didn't want to hear it. He did this little thing where he like danced around and said marriage is a dance
And like she didn't want to dance with me anymore. I like most women have had fucking body image issues my entire life.
And so when I'm with this guy, I'm always insecure on a first day wondering if I think I'm ugly.
When he was telling me, oh yeah, I thought she was beautiful no matter what.
And she just didn't want to hear that.
It made me feel more secure.
It's not judgmental.
Maybe his body positive. It was all these little things,
and I'm like clocking the entire time. After everything I've heard, I think everything that came
out of his mouth was for a reason, or for some kind of manipulation. There were some things,
as we kept talking, that I was like, hmm, that's a little odd. The thing that sticks out to me the
most was he was telling me the story about his cancer.
And he owned us a lawn at the time.
And then he did this beautiful story about how he always
wanted neck tattoos, but he didn't want his grandparents
to be disappointed in him.
But he decided to do it anyway.
And that's when they found the cancer.
He had this long battle with cancer that changed
his perspective on life.
And he told me at the same time that his wife left him
with his daughter.
He's like, yeah, is she just disappeared no reason. That she wouldn't even tell me
why I was going through all this stuff and she banded me. I've noticed my life whenever
people have stories of someone who's very close to them leaving and they say they don't know
why or they don't understand it. There's always a fucking reason. Another thing he kept doing
to her tonight
was mentioning to me,
I think this was another play for sympathy
that his mother had never held him as a child.
He didn't know how to love people
because his mom never loved him.
That was one of those things I was like,
oh God, was this another thing that got sympathy?
Like the, I haven't been touched in months or whatever.
I was like, oh, this poor guy.
I think a lot of women, at least women that I know
are like, I wanna be able to give you a little love, right?
So that definitely played till my empathetic compassionate.
I want to show you some sweetness, right?
The story I've been thinking about mostly since Jay,
it's just so hard to even wrap your head around that kind of shit
because I just can't even, I can't even imagine doing that to someone.
So as wild to try to get into the head of someone who thinks that way.
We kept talking throughout the night.
These little red flags were coming up.
Now, in hindsight, maybe big red flags.
He was texting someone the whole night.
He told me he was texting his son.
I'm assuming that was probably just a woman or one of his girlfriends.
He had it the time.
We kept talking.
We were listening to music.
I'm sober, so we were not drinking or anything like that.
And then it was like two in the morning. At that point, I decided, I think this guy's hot,
which pains me to say. And so I kissed him. And then we just made out for a long time.
I didn't want to have sex with him because I don't generally sleep with someone that I just met.
But we just kept kissing. And then I was the one who's like, well, let's do that. He was really, really respectful the whole night.
He never pushed it.
He didn't make the first move.
I was the one that kind of initiated everything.
And then I was going to leave because I'm a horrible sleeper.
I can't sleep even in my own bed.
So I was like, okay, I'm going to go and he begged me to stay.
He's like, please, please, please don't go.
Please stay.
I really like you.
I want to see you first thing in the morning.
Please just stay and cuddle with me.
And I was like, wow, okay, men generally aren't like that.
Cool. So I stayed and we had sex a few more times.
And in the morning, he was sweet and continued
to buy and said, I'll talk to you soon.
And I'll see you again.
That was our first day.
And then he hit me up pretty much immediately after that.
So I think our first interaction, there were some stuff
where I was like, I don't think this person's gonna be like a long-term
Person in my life, but he seems interesting. He's really really intense. I think that was part of what drew me to him
I took that intensity to mean passionate about photography and hiking and nature and life
So I was kind of excited even though I knew it was just kind of like a casual fun thing
We would text and then I wouldn't hear from him for a while. It was very hot and cold. I have a total
anxious attachment style so that triggered the fuck out of me. It made me feel more attached.
Like, oh my god, this guy doesn't want to talk to me. I got to get him. He would text me and then
he did tell me at one point. He's like, I don't think I'm emotionally available for a relationship.
And I was like, okay, that's fine, but we can still hang out. We didn't see each other
for a while. I think it was about two weeks. He got back from a trip to the Grand Canyon.
I just hit him up when I was like, Hey, how's it going? He's like, Hey, I'm in your neighborhood.
I'll be there in 10 minutes. I was like, what? Like, what the fuck? It was 11 o'clock at night.
But I was like, okay, cool. I'll sleep over. He came over and I was like, let me see your pictures
from the Grand Canyon. And this is one thing that saved out exact my mind too. The very first time I met him,
he showed me his pictures of Zion. There's this really famous hike there called Angel's Landing
that is terrifying. You got to like be on the edge. Super scary for someone that hates heights.
First time I met him, he was like, man, I faced my fears. I did it and I was so scared and I was
shaking, but I faced my fears because I hate heights so much. When he came over the second time,
he was showing me pictures from the Grand Canyon
and I was like, oh wow, you're on the edge.
Was it hard for you because you hate heights?
And he looked at me like I was a fucking alien.
He was like, what are you talking about?
I love heights.
I was like, what?
I didn't say anything.
I was like, he completely told me last time
how hard it was when he was high up last time
and now he's acting like I'm nuts for thinking that. That was another one of those things where I was like hmm something
about this guy feels off. We talked a lot and then we hooked up again it was fine aside from one
thing. We were having sex and it was getting playfully rough I guess guess you could say, which I'm fine with. But then he slapped me, I think on my back.
He's like, are you sleeping with anyone else right now?
And I was like, no, like, kind of made me sad,
but he asked me because when I like someone,
I just wanna see them.
He's like, oh, I don't care,
but I don't tend to see the marks I leave on you.
It kind of broke my heart.
Like, wow, we're having sex, and he would say that to me.
And weirdly, it was something that I didn't even really think about until later until I met
someone else through this and I was telling her my experience and I was like, oh yeah,
that made me feel pretty, pretty terrible. When I was not like that, sorry, I think
sort of the hardest part to me to talk about, when I found all this stuff out later and I saw
the pictures of his daughter and then remembering he said that to me, it was the biggest
mind-fuck as a child. The same things were done to me that he did to his daughter.
The whole thing, it was just so sick seeing those things and realizing what he said to me and
done to me and knowing he'd done it to so many other people. It was just really hard to process.
That was our second time together. He didn't ask him. He could
say I didn't invite him to stay. He fell asleep immediately after we were done having sex. I was up
and hanging out looking at him and I was like, I like this person, but there's something about him
that I can sense. There's something not right here. I couldn't put my finger on it. There was just
an unease. I fell with him, but I didn't want to believe it.
I definitely ignored my intuition,
even though I wanted to see him again,
but I knew that this person's not good for me.
I'm trying to heal my attachment,
it was I cannot be hanging out with this guy
because he's all the wrong things for me.
I do contact him for a while
and I didn't hear from him,
which I was annoyed by, but also grateful for.
And then one day I said, man, I need to have sex.
So I hit him up.
He was like, hey, I'm kind of heading out of town,
but if you want to come over and we can have some fun
and then I took him to the airport afterwards.
This time, it was pretty quick.
We went over.
He seemed completely uninterested in anything about me.
We had sex and I was going down on him
and I looked up, he had his phone
out and he was recording me and I was just like, what the fuck? You didn't ask. And when
I noticed, he was like, is this okay? And I was like, in those moments, I just froze.
I didn't know what to say. I'm like performing oral sex on this man I look up and he's filming
me. It was an out-of-body experience and I didn't know what to do. So I just said, okay, you're with someone
and you're doing the most intimate things with them.
And then you look up and they're doing something
like that you would, I would have never thought
I would have looked up and seen that.
It was done like five seconds later.
And then I drove him to the airport
and said goodbye immediately,
deleted his contact information.
I blocked him on Instagram for some reason.
I'd feel drawn to this
person and I don't even really trust myself enough to like not reach out to him again in the month or
two when I'm lonely so I deleted everything myself. A friend of mine, he contacted me and he said,
hey, what was the name of that guy with the face tattoos you went out with? I said his name's Jake.
He's like, my friend carries dating him and I need you to warn her. And keep in mind at this point, all I knew was my experiences. I didn't
know any of this other shit yet. The Instagram page was not the same yet. So I sent her a couple of
waist smells. And I was like, hey girl, like make your own choices. I just told her about what happened
between him and I. And I was like, there was something about him. I don't think you should do it.
He's kind of fucked up. Stay away. A couple days later, that same friend who connected me with Carrie, and he goes,
Hey, Carrie's really freaking out about that Instagram page. And I was like, what? What
Instagram page? And he sends it to me. I mean, honestly, fuck dude, it took me a couple weeks to
even. I felt like I was in a haze, seeing this person I had been intimate with and close
with what a fucking monster he was.
The child abuse was the thing that definitely really destroyed me and broke my heart.
It was all shocking.
I knew this guy was like bad news.
I had no clue that he was capable of all of the things.
The actual stories of the women that he had told me about, like his wife that
just disappeared reading her story and what had actually happened was shocking, reading Mimi's
story, him actually berating her and abusing her. There was one woman who posted text messages
between her and Jake where he was basically, God, this would mean me so sick. He was talking about
how funny it is the way he treats women. Like, oh, I fucked this girl.
And I started walking on the street and I remember who she was.
And it makes me feel so good to make women feel awful.
And I just used them.
They're useless.
And I hate that one was just like, fuck, man.
I was just another one of those women that he was getting off one,
making feel awful.
How many women stories were similar to mine?
Was pretty shocking because obviously there's a few women in his life that making feel awful. How many women's stories were similar to mine was pretty
shocking because obviously there's a few women in his life that he was with for a
long time that did horrific things too but there was also so many women that
they didn't once or for a month or a couple months that had these experiences
that how similar they were. He would tell us the exact same things. He had the
exact same moves for every single one of us. And knowing that someone that I felt genuine connection with was just it was all eyes and everything was planned out and
thought out in order to manipulate me was so crazy to try to even understand.
Hi, I'm Carrie. I met Jake through Hinge in February of this year.
We matched like midway through February.
We started chatting right away pretty much.
We set up plans to meet the next day.
I was in five and a half year relationship
that ended the previous October,
then I had just been out of it two month thing
that got really intense, really fast
and had ended, so I was sort of getting back into
using the apps for the second time.
I was really excited because I thought it was really cute.
You just looked like my type tall tattoos
looks like you might like, is like type of thing.
We started chatting and somehow it came up that I have health issues which are
mostly as a result of me drinking really heavily for a lot of years. I've been sober for in October will be seven years. My life is
so different from what it used to look like. It's really incredible and quite the miracle.
But I brought up at some point health issues.
I was still reclaiming my space.
I was moving my bedroom from the bedroom
that I had slept in with my ex for years
into the other bedroom.
As I was chatting with Jake,
I was disassembling this big bed and moving it. I was like sending them progress pictures because we were chatting and we connected
really well. But he really quickly mentioned that he battles cancer every day. And I was
like, Oh, man, this guy is cancer. That's crazy. And come to find out later that wasn't
accurate at all. I mentioned that my aunt has cancer
and that she takes the chemo pill every day
and he alluded to like having to do something similar.
So right away, he established this like,
I mean, now that I know the truth,
it's very much to feel sorry for me type of thing.
I bottle it this every day
and I know how it is to have chronic health issues or whatever.
We sent a couple selfies back and forth and it turns out that he works at a bar that's not far away
and I kind of knew a couple of people that were also involved in this bar. This is probably me
making excuses and justifications for what I decided to do. But I was like, people know this guy.
So I'm just gonna go hang out with him even though I haven't
tried it with him that long.
Go to dinner, it'll be fine.
Usually I would vet people for longer than that
and talk to them and ask more questions.
He was like, I probably won't be super hungry,
but we can get an appetizer or whatever.
He bust over to West Seattle.
I didn't tell him where I lived,
but I gave him the area so he could meet me outside.
And we walked up to the junction in West Seattle,
which is like our little downtown area.
We sat down and had dinner.
And we talked about his career, photography,
and working for Converge.
It's amazing how quickly finances came up with him.
I'm a really open book. I'll talk about money with people, but money came up really quickly.
And it was this thing with him over and over again, basically saying that he's working for this
company because it's a black owned company and he's contributing to the causes, but that they
don't pay him enough. And he doesn't make enough money to sustain himself. It was always like, I
live in the worst neighborhood in the city. It's really dangerous.
I'm always at risk. I get assaulted all the time. I've been living
in this place forever. And it's really inexpensive because of the
steel that I have. But otherwise, essentially, I wouldn't make
it. And then really quickly into, and this is all at dinner,
really quickly into like his ex-wife who is after him for more money,
even though he already pays child support and needing to pay orthodontic bills
that he can't afford.
A lot of saying that he's having a really rough time and people are after him,
essentially.
I was just like, oh, that sucks. That sounds really difficult and unfortunate. We ended up leaving there, walking back to my place, which was a 10-minute walk. I felt comfortable with him
coming into my apartment. I never felt at risk or afraid or unsafe or anything along those lines, which I'll elaborate more
on eventually, which is the part of this that was so difficult for me because I'm a survivor
of some pretty complex trauma and a very, very abusive relationship in like pretty much
every way imaginable. I'm walking into this with I can sniff them out
from a mile away.
There's no way that someone could get this shit past me again.
I felt like I can sniff a narcissist.
I can tell when someone has an anger problem.
I can tell when someone is going to harm me.
And with Jake, it was like,
oh, this guy's a mess, and he's probably bad news.
And he's got red flags, but never once did I feel like
he was capable of hurting someone.
I was like, this guy doesn't ever shit together.
And he's emotionally unavailable,
and I'm gonna get hurt, but I didn't think
that he was dangerous.
When we got back to my place,
he showed me converged media's morning show on YouTube, which is significant
because this is why I knew his last name. We were on opposite sides of my couch and my couch is
relatively long. So I'm thinking either maybe he's not that into me physically, which whatever,
sometimes you got to meet people to figure out if that's a thing or not, or maybe he's being
sometimes you got to meet people to figure out if that's a thing or not. Or maybe he's being
really gentlemanly. I'm thinking the whole time he's here, that nothing's going to happen. Eventually he stands up and he looks at my bookshelf and he goes, oh you have so many cameras.
And I was like, oh yeah, I mean most of those are display, but I used to be really in the
photography all throughout. From junior high into community college, he's like, oh, I have all my cameras in my bag
because he said he always carried them
and he's always out shooting or whatever,
but that he's going to work the next day.
So he carries all this gear with him.
Later on, I noticed that he always has this bag
and it's always full of clothes as well as a toothbrush.
Later on, I started being like, oh,
this guy's just bouncing around
probably to different women's houses.
We start talking about cameras,
and I'm like, these are all display cameras out here
in my room are my real cameras.
And they're old SLR cameras,
and he had his digital cameras.
I was telling him, I don't really know anything about
digital cameras, but I understand an SLR.
He pulls all of his photography gear out on my bed and he
starts showing you different lenses and different filters and he's mapping photographs.
This is really fun. Even if nothing happens and we're just friends, like it's cool to
know someone who's this in the photography. The reason why I mention all of this is because
later on down the line when I found out that he films people sexual acts without them knowing.
It dawned on me that this backpack is giant.
This guy is tall.
He's a big dude and this backpack looks big on him.
Like it is jam packed full of stuff.
When we slept together, which we do,
and let's sit together,
he set that giant backpack on this like really dainty and
teak vanity that I have next to my bed.
I thought it was weird, but I didn't know why.
I thought it was weird.
And later on when I got all of the information,
I was thinking like he'd so easily could have had something to
film us with in that bag.
You would never do that. It belonged on the floor.
It's a huge heavy backpack filled with shit. You know, and it was just sitting next to my bed
on the vanity. Whether or not that actually occurred with me, I'll probably never know, but
I've heard so many accounts of other women finding out that he filmed them or they look up and see him filming them.
He said he wasn't going to stay the night and eventually he started to go, I am kind of tired.
I offered for him to sleep on the couch because I really didn't think anything was going to happen.
I thought, oh, maybe this is platonic thing. That probably sounds naive, but he hadn't
made any advances or asked to kiss me or anything.
Now I know it's because this stuff had already started to come out, so he was being very
careful with me because he was probably scared to cross any lines with me.
Ultimately, it was really late.
It was time to go to bed.
I was like, you're welcome to sleep in my bed if you'd like.
And he was like, okay, I'll probably do that. We were laying in my bed for like two hours before anything happened. Aside
from eventually, I laid my hat on his chest. And he like played with my hair a lot. And
he scratched my back a lot. And he was super sweet. Those are my favorite things. I had
already told him that eventually we did kiss and eventually we did have sex.
And the most significant thing about the sex is that every time he wanted to touch me
in a new place, he asked for permission and he asked for consent.
Is it okay if I kiss you?
Is it okay if I touch you here?
Now is it okay if I touch you here?
And I was like, this guy's great.
At one point, I said, you don't have to ask anymore. We're good. I really
appreciate it, but it's okay. You have permission. So we had sex.
He stayed the night. He left the next morning. Before he left, he
kissed me on the forehead. Good bye. And then shortly after that, he
unmatched me on hinge. I reached out to him and I was like, what's
the deal? Like you unmatched me. And he I reached out to him and I was like, what's the deal? Like you unmatched me?
And he was like, I deleted the app. Is that not okay with you? I believe them. Sort of. I mean,
my body was like, don't believe that. But in my mind, I was like, okay, he was like, I shouldn't
be out there dating. Things are just too difficult. He started to tell me the next day.
I'm going through this thing. It's the most difficult thing that I've ever been through.
My ex is coming after me and harassing me and it's like the worst thing that I've ever been
through in my whole entire life and essentially I shouldn't be out here trying to date.
And I was like, oh great, here we go again, another one of these.
Because there's a lot of that out there.
There's a lot of, I'm gonna pretend I really like you,
or I'm gonna like play it off really cool,
and then once we sleep together, I'm gonna be like,
oh, I shouldn't actually be dating.
I'm not ready for a endeavor.
So I was just like, all right, dude. But when the
women started actually posting their stories was actually this time. So we got really weird.
And he told me that something was going on, but he told me, and he told me this over and
over and over again, that he couldn't tell me what it was because this lawyer told him
not to speak on it. That's next time on something was wrong. He's trying to lure me into his apartment
to have sex. He asked me to have sex with him and then when I said I couldn't come over,
he threatened suicide. When they're in these social justice or progressive spaces,
generally we think of men and power, good away with things for a long time, but it also happens in these spaces
that are trying to dismantle power.
That's really upsetting that someone can use
a social cause as cover for their behavior.
He actually told me that his daughter, Emerson,
had died and that's why he went through
these long periods of no communication.
Oh my gosh, I feel sick.
I will be reaching out to Seattle PD.
He was mad.
I mean, he threatened to salt me and Bobby
in front of witnesses.
Hi, this is my son, Tiffini Rees.
I'm an attorney, and I represent Jake Graves' Roth.
And I'm calling you a response to your message that you've sent
when regarding the documentary that you are putting together.
Hi, this is Detective Tisci,
I have a police department returning your call.
I tried to tell Marley he was a violent person.
I knew that he was a violent person.
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