Mon Apr 26, 2021 at 10:01am ET
Web of Lies is in Belmont, New Hampshire, to investigate the case of Ryan Vallee, who engaged in a “sextortion” scheme by hacking into the social media accounts of teenage girls before demanding that they send nude pictures.
From 2011 to 2016, Vallee preyed on more than a dozen victims before the police and the U.S. secret service eventually stopped him in his tracks.
Vallee stalked teenage girls by making friend requests on Facebook. Once they had developed an online relationship, he would then ask them to send nude pictures of themselves. When they refused, Vallee would then blackmail them.
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Star Wars fans are about to get a book all about lightsabers and they have Harry Potter to thank. It’s called
Star Wars: The Lightsaber Collection, a slick, wide-format, hardcover book that features exclusive images and information on almost 60 different lightsabers in the
Star Wars universe. None of which would’ve happened if not for the boy who lived.
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The Harry Potter Wand Collection and so that is the inspiration for this book,”
Lightsaber Collection author Daniel Wallace told io9 over the phone recently. “[It’s] pages and pages of the wands that were created for the films, which are very detailed and very unique. And then the obvious idea was, ‘Oh, you could probably do that with lightsabers, right?’” Yes. Yes, you can.
Family Worship – On Demand Audio – Sunday December 20th 2020
We all have different traditions and routines that we like to do on Christmas – they could be going to church, how we unwrap the presents, maybe a Christmas swim or spot of backyard cricket. Our traditions might include a nap after eating too much for Christmas lunch, or just trying to wrangle everyone into the family photo.
With Christmas upon us this week Ryan Vallee looks at the first Christmas. Whatever traditions we might have, or things that we love about Christmas – there was nothing routine, and nothing postcard perfect about the first Christmas that began the celebration just on 2000 years ago.