16 - The Twitter Crush

These hoes ain't loyal

Text Messages & Voice Note Transcripts
Victoria Reed & Jackson Reed
May 21, 2017

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3:47 AM

Jackson: Sissy please pick up

Jackson: I know it's late but this is important

Jackson: We found Charlie

Jackson: Not him. Blood. A lot of blood

Jackson: And a tooth

Jackson: Please call me back

3:52 AM

Victoria: Can't talk at a party. What do you mean blood?????

Jackson: Storage unit in Vegas. Door was locked from outside. Pool of dried blood on the concrete. We called police

Victoria: Oh my god

Victoria: Are you okay???

Jackson: No

Jackson: I think he's dead V

3:54 AM - Voice Note from Victoria
[Duration: 0:47]
[Background: Loud music, party chatter]

"Jackson, holy shit. I'm so sorry. I can't—hold on—[muffled, speaking to someone else: "I'll be right back, it's my brother"]—Sorry, I'm at this thing but oh my god. Are you safe? Where are you now? This is insane. Are the police taking it seriously now? God, I'm so sorry you had to find that. Do you need me to come there? I can leave if you need—"

3:56 AM

Jackson: Police are here now. Taking it very seriously. Multiple units

Jackson: V I need to tell you something

Jackson: Charlie was investigating Irina Sterling before he disappeared

Jackson: He found something. About her past

3:58 AM - Voice Note from Victoria
[Duration: 0:23]
[Background: Music muffled, footsteps echoing on tile floor]

"What do you mean investigating Irina? Like, trying to dig up dirt? That's what he did, right? Attack successful women? I mean, it's horrible what happened but... what are you trying to say?"

3:59 AM

Jackson: He found evidence she used to be an escort. High end. Maybe working for a mobster

Jackson: There's a pattern V. Everyone who finds out disappears

Jackson: That YouTuber Zack. And now Charlie

Jackson: I think she killed him

4:01 AM - Voice Note from Victoria
[Duration: 1:14]
[Background: Echo, a toilet flushing]

"Are you fucking serious right now? You think IRINA killed Charlie? A five-foot-six woman overpowered a grown man? Jackson, listen to yourself. You sound insane. Just because she maybe did sex work—which, by the way, who fucking cares—doesn't make her a murderer. This is... this is actually disgusting. You're using Charlie's death to slander a woman who's done nothing but empower others. Is this because you slept with her? Because she didn't call you back? You're really going to stand there and accuse a woman of MURDER because you found out she might have been an escort? That's fucking low, even for you."

4:03 AM

Jackson: This isn't about that night

Jackson: People are missing. Plural. Two that we know about and both investigated her. That's not a coincidence. I don’t care that she was a hooker. But SHE does. She’s killing people to hide it

Jackson: You're being emotional and not thinking clearly

Jackson: Just like always. You believe whatever women tell you and assume all men are lying

Jackson: Even your own brother

4:05 AM - Voice Note from Victoria
[Duration: 1:47]
[Voice shaking with anger]

"Emotional? EMOTIONAL? My brother just called me at 4 AM talking about blood and teeth and murder and I'M being emotional? Fuck you, Jackson. You know what this is? This is you being jealous. Jealous that women like Irina are successful without needing men like you. So you make up these crazy fucking theories with your little friend Marcus—who, by the way, is probably just another bitter podcaster mad that women won't fuck him. You were never a real cop, Jackson. You were an MP who cleaned up bar fights and suicides. And now you're playing detective, trying to frame your own client for murder because what? Because she had the audacity to have a past? Because she didn't want to date you? This is some shit straight out of Mom's playbook. When she can't control someone, she destroys them. And you're exactly like her."

4:07 AM

Jackson: Take that back

Jackson: I'm serious take that back

Jackson: I'm nothing like her

Victoria: You're worse. At least Mom's honest about being a manipulative bitch

4:08 AM - Voice Note from Victoria
[Duration: 0:38]
[Background: Party noise returns, music louder]

"You know where I am right now? I'm at Irina's Members-Only party. Yeah. She invited ME. Not you. Because I actually support women instead of trying to tear them down the second they won't fuck me again. She values my platform, my voice. And you? You're just the hired help who got lucky once. Stay away from her, Jackson. And stay away from me. I'm done with your paranoid, misogynistic bullshit."

4:09 AM

Jackson: VICTORIA NO

Jackson: GET OUTTA THERE

Jackson: She's dangerous please believe me

Jackson: VICTORIA

4:11 AM

Jackson: Answer me

4:15 AM

Jackson: I'm coming to get you. Where is the party? Are you in LA?

Jackson: please

[Read at 4:15 AM]

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[END OF CONVERSATION]