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>> reporter: jennifer destefano will never forget the frantic call she got from her 15-year-old daughter, brianna. >> she goes mom, help me come help me come help me. and this man gets on, very aggressive, we have your daughter, that is when i went into panic mode. >> reporter: the man demanded a million dollars. >> i said that was impossible, so he came up with $50,000. >> reporter: she never paid the money and would soon learn the money was a popular ai scam. new software can recreate the voices of loved ones in distress, and scammers use that to ask for large sums of money. >> this man come...

Was like her. >> but still, this was high school and they weren't exactly shocked that tara wanted to try something illegal. >> i told her that's a stupid idea. >> and you left it at that? >> yeah, and she didn't really want to be talked out of it. >> i think everyone kind of knew it was kind of a bucket list type thing for her. i mean, she was really into the beatles and they obviously talk about that kind of thing in their songs. >> reporter: that weekend started like so many for teenagers. tara's friend came over for their friday night sleepover, and the two girls spent the night doing thei...

Idea. >> and you left it at that? >> yeah, and she didn't really want to be talked out of it. >> i think everyone kind of knew it was kind of a bucket list type thing for her. i mean, she was really into the beatles and they obviously talk about that kind of thing in their songs. >> reporter: that weekend started like so many for teenagers. tara's friend came over for their friday night sleepover, and the two girls spent the night doing their own thing in the basement. >> i could hear the girls down there laughing, but i didn't want to go down there and talk to them. >> invade their privacy? >...

And he doesn't want people to know that, because if they know, that that implies that he understood, as matt gates did, in any one half a brain, that the president was obviously responsible in some ways, for them being there. >> absolutely. the suggestion is that they were trying to say, this is banning you need to get involved. that was the message to the president that they had. and as to whether or not the president responded, we still don't know, but there were frantic phone calls being made. and they are placing these phone calls, away from other members, to try to employ him to get him t...

>> frantic call. one of the neighbors reached rachel's father. i get a phone call from a screening irrational voice on thor end. i said is it rachel? yeah, it is rachel. i have a question for you. is there a yellow ribbon around the property. don was in the middle of moving. the movers tried to come him down. we don't know that he's dead. count on it, he killed her. >> rachel was dead. the horrific news spread. >> i got to from a friend. i said that can't be. the next thing i knew i woke up on the floor. >> you fainted? >> i completely blacked out. >> i hit the floor. >> i called td sherihe sh...