DOXXED

***DOXXED*** is the first episode of the second season of *Dead Man's Phone*.

## Synopsis

*A famous influencer's body is found on Hampstead Heath. A murder investigation is launched.*

## Plot

A dog walker finds a headless body on Hampstead Heath. DCI Sutherland, Sophie and Vikram fill you in on the investigation so far - a masquerade mask and clumps of bright red hair have been found at the scene. Research of the mask leads to Gemma Dream, an influencer on AllMyFans who hides her identity wearing the gold mask. Gemma hasn’t posted anything for several days, so the body must be hers. However, Gemma Dream probably isn’t her real name so you have to find her real identity.

You search through Gemma’s phone cloud. Her AllMyFans account has been inactive for 48 hours and you find some aggressive comments on her posts. She never took photos without her mask so you assume it is her work phone, not her personal phone.

Vikram thinks the murder didn’t happen on Hampstead Heath and was just dumped there. DNA and footprints at the scene have been ruined by heavy rain. There are no matches to the body’s DNA, no evidence of sexual assault was found on the body, soil expert Caroline Dixon estimates the body was buried around 36 hours ago, and estimated time of death was 1-3 days ago, which isn’t helpful.

You and Sutherland catch up - he tells PC Wheeler to ask Sophie to gain access to Gemma’s AllMyFans messages. Parts of the body were found at 3 different sites but there’s still no sign of her head. PC Murphy is sent to put out a missing persons alert for Gemma’s demographic.

Sophie finds out information about Gemma Dream - she has 160,000 followers, posts explicit sexual content and always wears a mask to protect her true identity. She earns a lot of money through thirsty fans paying for exclusive content and the ‘girlfriend experience’ where the creator can answer their followers’ messages. She has requested access to Gemma's messages but the CEO can’t be reached.

Meanwhile, you look through Gemma’s Chirper and find Chirps about how she was doxxed - her address and nudes were leaked. She’d gone to the police but was told she shouldn’t have posted them in the first place. No police report on it can be found so Sophie finds a recording of the call. Gemma told the officer her WishList locker address was leaked which means people could turn up there looking for her. The officer on duty was PC Peta Lykaios, so you ask Murphy to send her to an interrogation room. Sophie gets to work on finding the doxxer. A journalist for the Daily Shout calls you for a comment on police inaction on Gemma’s doxxing.

PC Lykaios explains she didn’t make a report on the call because she thought it was a scam as Gemma refused to come to the station or reveal her personal information. She had made the decision to prioritise a case of burglary rather than Gemma’s, which nothing could be done about and wouldn’t have happened if she just didn’t post such things online. The leaked address wasn’t even her personal one, so PC Lykaios assumed she wasn’t in real danger. She thought it was a lost cause so she didn’t record the complaint. You can choose to put PC Lykaios on disciplinary or not. Later, Sophie says Gemma wouldn’t’ve revealed her real name because leaking images is a communications crime, so she wouldn’t get anonymity in the trial.

Scrolling through Chirper, you see Gemma had an online feud with influencer Bella Rose, causing the internet to believe she had a part in the murder. Because Bella also keeps her personal information private, Sophie messages Bella on her Chirper, who agrees to come to the station later.

The post-mortem finds the cause of death was cardiac arrest. The body had bruises on the arms and trauma to the neck, signs of struggle and strangulation. Vikram links the restricted airway to cardiac arrest.

In the interview, Bella says she didn’t know Gemma well and that their feud on Chirper was a hoax, to create drama and boost their subscribers. She shows you their private messages to prove they faked it together. She explains Snaplife influencers like Mia Lifesgråte burst onto the AllMyFans scene, edging out sex workers who rely on the platform, which is why she and Gemma created the feud to boost each other’s popularity. They were planning to do a livestream to reconcile the next week. Bella had only spoken to her online and never saw her without her mask on either. She also says how she receives about 20 threatening and racist messages a day, which is why AllMyFans influencers wouldn’t reveal their real identity. In contrast to her supportive family, Bella felt Gemma’s family didn’t support her career as she’d never talk about them. You and Sutherland decide to put security measures on Bella as the online feud has put her in danger in relation to the scale of the investigation.

Sophie gets back to you to tell you she found nothing on the doxxer, but that AllMyFans CEO Theodore Fox was accused of sexual assault by an AllMyFans influencer last year. Murphy directs your attention to a video of Gemma in the woods asking to be choked BDSM-style. Vikram calls you to say he and the forensics team are going back to the woods.

## BBO News headlines

* Police need to ‘rebuild trust’ after Jerome Jacobs murder
* WishList CEO Ron Robinson introduces six day work week
* Supermarkets hit back at drone deliver services
* Police recover stolen Roman artefacts from Ipswich flat
* Astronomers puzzled by ‘unknown’ signal bursts

## Daily Shout headlines

* Murder in London - Gemma Dream found dismembered on Hampstead Heath
* Un-beer-lievable - Publicans angered by proposed changes to the sale of high-alcohol booze
* Police refuse to comment - Police ignore requests for comment on failure to protect murdered model (if you chose ‘no comment’)
* Sex act in woods gone wrong