Deadly Influence: The Social Media Murders 1x1

1. Toochi Kash is the closest thing

2. Las Vegas has to a mega influencer.

3. She's internationally known.

4. I would consider her a souped-up Veyron Bugatti

5. with all the options and amenities.

6. And then, you get Tia Evans.

7. There was definitely a draw to the world.

8. I mean the money, the fame, the parties.

9. All shiny.

10. A guy like Ash Armand...

11. Today, I'm gonna be doing a 20-minute explosive sexercise.

12. And these influencers are feeding off of

13. the back drop of Las Vegas.

14. Sex, clubbing, drugs.

15. Somebody's gonna be able to provide it for you.

16. That's Vegas' ideology.

17. We learnt from you, bro.

18. What you end up with is a really dangerous cocktail.

19. Vegas has a lot of hidden people that are running from something.

20. You gotta really be on your A-game or you'll just be get eaten by the sharks.

21. It's 2011 and I was very actively searching for new men

22. for my website, Cowboys4Angels.

23. A male companion agency for women.

24. We're considered the best of the best.

25. We want to give you the perfect boyfriend experience

26. with just, no strings attached.

27. One of the websites that we used was Model Mayhem to find men.

28. So, I'm scrolling through Model Mayhem

29. and I basically just stopped.

30. I was looking for Ken dolls,

31. and all of a sudden I found like a Fabio.

32. And it was Akshaya Kubiak.

33. His look was so unique.

34. So different from the men that I represented at the time.

35. He had long luscious hair.

36. And his profile also said that

37. "Akshaya has worked as an international male model most of his life.

38. He is now specializing in the art of massage."

39. I knew I really wanted to work with him.

40. So, I sent him a DM

41. and within a day he responded.

42. I drove down to Miami and we conducted our first interview.

43. I remember him walking up and I was just

44. really blown away by his presence.

45. His whole vibe and personality was

46. very zen and very calming.

47. And I thought he was gonna be amazing with clients.

48. And so, we went ahead and set him up on a contract with our agency.

49. I remember when I got his picture, I was like,

50. "Holy crap.

51. He is gonna make a lot of money."

52. Akshaya's career with Cowboys4Angels took off very fast.

53. His reviews were phenomenal.

54. Couple years down the road, he was doing so well

55. that it was time for me to put him into the limelight.

56. At the time, I worked as the creative consultant as well

57. for the show, Gigolos,

58. a reality TV show on Showtime filmed in Las Vegas.

59. And that's a place where I was able to showcase my best men.

60. Showtime presents a new reality series

61. about the hardest working men in Vegas.

62. Late night. Redefined.

63. Each person had a character or persona.

64. Nick Hawk was the bad boy.

65. We had Brace who was the elegant gentleman.

66. Then, we had Vin Armani who was the intellectual type.

67. And every season they wanna introduce a new Cowboy.

68. In August of 2012, when the Gigolos show

69. premiered Season Three. Akshaya became...

70. Ash...

71. My name is Ash Armand, uh, I'm a gigolo.

72. Ash Armand, the spiritual zen warrior.

73. You're so sensual and sexy.

74. Think you have to clear your schedule.

75. He's compassionate and loving.

76. So, I was born in India,

77. uh, my mother's Indian and my dad's American.

78. I grew up in Japan.

79. What is the secret to being a good Gigolo?

80. To succeed in the business, you shouldn't be

81. a self-centered, egoistic person.

82. He just said, you shouldn't be a self-centered, egotistical person.

83. And he wasn't.

84. What do you get out of it?

85. I genuinely look at it as almost like a healing experience.

86. Oh, wow.

87. Sometimes, people like, break down and cry

88. 'cause you touched them in a way that they've never been touched before.

89. So, it's just really, giving them a lasting memory.

90. Armand became a hit

91. with the viewers and with booking appointments.

92. First time, I watched any of Gigolos

93. I was like, "Wait, what now?"

94. First off, there's a show, it's in Las Vegas,

95. it's about male escorts.

96. I was intrigued by the whole phenomena.

97. You know, sex work has a lot of stigmas.

98. Being on TV for sex work

99. is gonna bring a lot of the stigmas to your front door.

100. But, Ash definitely wanted to be seen and known.

101. Right around the time that Ash was in the Gigolos show,

102. social media was taking off.

103. When Ash starts his run on Gigolos in 2012,

104. Instagram is just getting started and it grows from

105. 10 million at the beginning of that year

106. to 100 million by the end of 2012.

107. You get that big boom of influencers

108. and becoming a social media star.

109. You no longer had to be a A-list actor to have followers.

110. Social media influencers become an entire livelihood

111. an entire business, an entire industry.

112. Ash is at this perfect little moment

113. where he can really become an influencer.

114. He launches his first Facebook page.

115. By July of 2012, he's got his Instagram page up.

116. And he's producing content,

117. these hypersexualized images of him

118. to try and build himself up as a brand.

119. It was just a big explosion and it all happened at once.

120. The Gigolos show was a hit.

121. Cowboys4Angels was booming.

122. Social media was exploding.

123. So, Ash started to open up more social medias.

124. I'm Ash Armand,

125. today we're gonna be doing a 20-minute explosive sexercise.

126. So, get ready.

127. The description of Ash's new channel

128. tells you pretty much everything you need to know.

129. "Welcome to my channel,

130. designed so you can ask me questions about sensuality,

131. sexuality, fitness, nutrition, and spirituality."

132. When I started juicing,

133. I really believed in many way that it's better than Viagra

134. for sexually activating yourself.

135. "My purpose is to bring connected sexuality

136. to the mainstream by creating a database

137. of educational sexual material."

138. We're gonna start with a 3-minute jump rope warm-up.

139. And then, we're gonna do hip opening stretches.

140. And then, we're gonna move into our exercise.

141. "Look forward to empowering you on your journey

142. to sexual mastery."

143. It's a success. The approach works.

144. He starts accumulating tens and thousands of followers

145. on Facebook, on Instagram.

146. He's got thousands and thousands of followers on YouTube

147. watching his videos.

148. The name, Ash Armand is now a brand.

149. Ash is getting all these attention

150. while feeding off of the back drop of Las Vegas.

151. Las Vegas is a town of status.

152. And you can have status through fame,

153. money, or a social media presence.

154. So, if someone had a lot of followers,

155. they are more important.

156. They get invited to better clubs.

157. They don't have to pay for things

158. because they'll post about it on their social media.

159. That way, someone can say,

160. "I saw Ash Armand in the club."

161. So, having a strong Instagram in Las Vegas

162. is like having a credit card.

163. Las Vegas is about showing,

164. it's a perfect back drop

165. for someone to show a lifestyle of leisure or opulence.

166. It's a city that's built to please.

167. A city that would give you any kind of pleasure you desire.

168. Any kind of indulgence you desire.

169. Sex, clubbing, drugs.

170. Somebody's gonna be able to provide it for you

171. and that's Vegas' ideology.

172. So, Ash is gonna be expected to participate and indulge.

173. We learnt from you, bro.

174. And that's gonna create some habitual behavior.

175. It's the culture.

176. By the middle of 2014,

177. Ash has been on Gigolos for three seasons.

178. And he's become a real fan favorite.

179. So much gratitude to all of you following me

180. and all the likes and people who have been supporting me

181. from day one.

182. The success of all his digital platforms

183. translating to his pocket book.

184. He's making more money.

185. He's also become more and more entrenched

186. in the Las Vegas night life scene.

187. At that point, he started to date

188. one of the most beautiful girls in Las Vegas.

189. And it was Toochi Kash.

190. He was so proud.

191. I know Toochi for many years

192. because she's dated several of the man that I represent.

193. She really likes

194. really handsome men.

195. Toochi Kash is the closest thing

196. Las Vegas has to a mega influencer.

197. She's internationally known.

198. Dating Toochi makes you feel like a million dollars.

199. Seeing any pictures of Toochi, I would consider her

200. a souped-up Veyron Bugatti with all the options and amenities.

201. You can't go wrong, you know.

202. But you gonna pay the cost to be the boss.

203. Toochi Kash was one of my friends.

204. She took Instagram pictures

205. before any of that was like, really popular.

206. I've definitely looked up to Toochi.

207. There is definitely a draw to the world,

208. I mean, the money, the fame,

209. the parties, big houses, the nice cars.

210. It's all shiny.

211. My first time getting posted by Toochi Kash,

212. I made 10 thousand followers overnight.

213. And was like, "Wow."

214. It was really cool. I just didn't expect it.

215. It's a good feeling though.

216. Makes you feel confident, it made me feel pretty.

217. I kind of start to wonder, like,

218. "Hmm. Maybe I should be making money from this."

219. Toochi Kash has such a strong Instagram presence.

220. She was more of and A-lister than him.

221. But those two together,

222. they were definitely a Vegas power couple.

223. So, we have this combination of fame,

224. money,

225. drugs,

226. social media in Las Vegas.

227. And what you end up with

228. is a really dangerous cocktail.

229. I've been around killers and drug dealers

230. for most of my, uh, upbringing.

231. Vegas has a lot of hidden people

232. that are running from something.

233. I think, eventually, you're in Vegas for too long,

234. it can eat you alive.

235. While Ash is dating Toochi,

236. his popularity skyrocket.

237. His YouTube channel's getting millions of views.

238. He's getting more likes and more followers on Facebook and Instagram.

239. They're eating for free at restaurants.

240. They're getting into the best nightclubs, the hottest spots, and

241. it's not just Vegas anymore.

242. Toochi is providing him

243. with lavish trips around the world.

244. He's being taken care of.

245. Kind of being in a position of a kept man.

246. And Toochi's really in control of that access,

247. that success, that public image.

248. That's one thing that I love about Toochi,

249. is that she's even more powerful offline

250. than she is online.

251. She is a boss.

252. This point signifies a pretty big change in Ash's life.

253. Only three years ago,

254. he was a relatively unknown professional masseuse.

255. Thank you for all the new followers and all the likes, um.

256. I'm noticing there's a lot of activity on my page

257. which is really amazing.

258. He's now a true Internet influencer

259. and that can force

260. a really dynamic change in a person's personality.

261. Definitely noticed a change in Ash.

262. He seemed to become more flashy.

263. He was all about ego and presence.

264. Chasing followers.

265. He had a ton of women commenting on his photos.

266. And you get kind of addicted to how many likes you get,

267. how many comments you get.

268. It pushes you more and more to post

269. sexier, riskier, and riskier kind of content.

270. This is an example of Ash posting a very provocative photo

271. to try to gain followers.

272. Ash was creating perfect clickbait,

273. perfect fodder, get to all those like, all those clicks.

274. Ash is becoming more arrogant.

275. Really thinking he's the

276. But Toochi is definitely

277. the bigger celebrity still, by a long shot.

278. And she's really important to his identity, who he is.

279. But then, at some point during the relationship,

280. Ash became very controlling.

281. I remember a specific incident.

282. I knew a girl who had a smaller Instagram

283. and I wanted her to do a collaboration with Toochi Kash.

284. And so, those two did a photoshoot,

285. and I helped style it.

286. I was there with a photographer in the background.

287. And we went out that night,

288. I saw Ash and I said,

289. "Check these out, don't they look beautiful together?"

290. And he said, "You were on a photoshoot with Toochi?"

291. And I was like, "Yeah, I helped put it all together."

292. And he looked at me

293. and his face just kind of went like white.

294. And he turned around, and he stormed off.

295. And I just, was like, what just happened?

296. And later that night, I got a text message from Toochi.

297. And she was like, "He's crazy.

298. He's so jealous, he didn't even want you

299. around while I take pictures."

300. Toochi Kash is a free-spirit,

301. and Ash became very jealous.

302. And once you do that with her,

303. she's done.

304. So, Toochi decided enough was enough,

305. and she ended up breaking up with him.

306. And that really crushed him.

307. Toochi and Ash were dating for about two years.

308. Dating Toochi is top of the food chain.

309. Also, it was a very had pill for him to swallow and digest.

310. It's not just like the relationship is

311. "Oh, my baby, I love you. Please don't leave me." It's also,

312. "Hey this is bad for the brand, he is bad for business."

313. Ash tried to win Toochi back.

314. He would text paragraphs upon paragraphs

315. but you know, excuses are like

316. Everybody's got one, you know what I mean?

317. She'd ask me, "Why is he texting me?"

318. It was definitely not happening.

319. After Toochi, Ash was never the same person.

320. About a year after Ash and Toochi broke up,

321. she started to date

322. another guy that worked for me.

323. And his name was Rex.

324. And he was pretty much an opposite of Ash.

325. First of all, he was 6'4".

326. Ash is like 6'.

327. And he was an all American, blue-eyed guy.

328. Former military.

329. Just really shredded.

330. He was a lot younger than Ash.

331. And then I got a call from Rex.

332. He's like, "I gotta send you these text messages I'm getting from Ash."

333. He starts to screenshot these messages,

334. and it's very violent.

335. I was shocked.

336. I know about the threats.

337. This sort of jealousy

338. that he had for this woman,

339. was like, "If I can't have her, nobody can."

340. Thinking back to that day,

341. I just pictured someone being angry in texts.

342. So, I really didn't take those threats seriously.

343. But I think this period for Ash was a really tough time.

344. He didn't have Toochi anymore.

345. And then Showtime did not renew the show.

346. His feelings about who he is,

347. and what he's capable of, and what he's worth

348. are attached in a lot of different ways to

349. the celebrity, the relationship,

350. the growth he experienced with Toochi.

351. Life is not the same.

352. You know, the finances aren't the same.

353. The lifestyle isn't the same.

354. The treatment that you get as a person isn't the same.

355. He starts partying more,

356. he starts taking more drugs,

357. he starts going kind of wild.

358. So, he's on a real fall,

359. and it's trickling now into his brand.

360. His priority with the agency

361. just didn't seem as important.

362. He started to turn away clients.

363. I was getting very frustrated.

364. We ended up terminating his relationship with Cowboys4Angels.

365. And he was like,

366. "What? I'm Ash Armand, you can't let go of me."

367. And I was like, "You know what? I made you.

368. I made Ash Armand.

369. I don't want to work with you anymore.

370. And you can go be your own Ash Armand."

371. And I remember him telling me,

372. "Fine, I'm gonna go start my agency."

373. He wrote on his Instagram,

374. "Ash Armand Male Companions."

375. I really didn't wish him any harm.

376. I just wished that he would get some help.

377. For this point, Ash is in the back end of his 30s.

378. And he's got a lot of competition.

379. Younger influencers and...

380. and escorts that are coming onto the scene.

381. Under that pressure to appear fit,

382. to maintain his body, to maintain appearances,

383. he starts taking steroids.

384. He's pushing himself physically in a way that's

385. obviously unhealthy.

386. Posting more and more provocative images of himself online,

387. and they're really getting saucy...

388. semi-pornographic to try and keep an edge,

389. to keep attention on himself.

390. He's getting comments from women fans...

391. They preferred his body before he started taking steroids.

392. It seems like there's a real crisis going on with him.

393. And it's trickling down into his brand.

394. At some point, Ash begins to walk towards a moment of clarity.

395. And one thing I've been thinking a lot lately,

396. especially, like, living in a place like Vegas,

397. I know, like, lot of people wanna deny their demons.

398. I just believe everybody has demons and there's things that we're dealing with.

399. It's like you can't judge that,

400. but it's more like using it as your ally.

401. Find the outlets where you can express that instead of trying to suppress it.

402. He realizes that modelling, sex work

403. is something that he's aging out of.

404. He starts to try and rediscover and reinvent his identity,

405. who he is.

406. Also around this time, Ash starts dating a woman named Tia Evans.

407. When I first met Ash,

408. it was when he was still dating Toochi Kash.

409. I just thought, "Wow, he is something."

410. He is stunning! And, obviously, you know,

411. you can look but you can't touch.

412. But then after they broke up,

413. I just asked if he wanted to have a drink with me.

414. And he said, "Yes."

415. We went on our first date at the Hookah Lounge,

416. and we're, like, sitting across from each other.

417. And in front of the whole bar he, like, reached across the table and kissed me

418. in front of everybody. And I was like, "Oh, my God.

419. Wow! That's very magical."

420. I was definitely, totally in love with him

421. from the first month I was with him.

422. He would make me tea every single morning,

423. he would give me massages to bed, I mean...

424. He was a great, he was a great boyfriend.

425. Eventually, he said that, "We see each other every night anyways.

426. You might as well just move your stuff here."

427. And so I did.

428. One night we started talking and I'm like, you know,

429. "Eventually you're gonna have to stop being a gigolo.

430. "Like, what would you wanna do?"

431. And he told me that he had been a massage therapist for 10 years.

432. And he was amazing with his hands.

433. He could make any pain go away.

434. You could feel just this energetic type of touch.

435. He had healing hands.

436. He'd practice, like, reiki, and, like, other, like, energy healing.

437. And he said that he felt like he wanted to go back to doing it,

438. back to healing.

439. We were taking about mushrooms,

440. and we watched Fantastic Fungi.

441. It said that you rebuild your brain cells

442. that reconnects certain pathways.

443. And I think that was really exciting for him.

444. He wanted to start microdosing and experimenting a little bit.

445. He would talk about mushroom ceremonies.

446. How it helps you get through things in your mind,

447. helping through trauma, and, um, depression.

448. I think that that was exciting...

449. to know that he could potentially heal other people.

450. And then May, 2020,

451. Ash got a message from a new potential client,

452. and her name was Herleen.

453. She sent him a deposit.

454. And he said he looked up the apartment,

455. looked like it was legit.

456. Asked me if I think that he should go,

457. and I said, "Yeah. Seems legit to me."

458. That's when everything

459. started to fall apart.

460. As Ash is having his, kind of, spiritual rebirth,

461. or at least spiritual rebrand,

462. he ends up connecting with Herleen.

463. So that's me.

464. That's Herleen.

465. We're just pointing to the sky, just pointing...

466. to the direction that we was always trying to go.

467. Right to the top.

468. And we always knew that we was gonna go there together.

469. I opened A.C.E. Fitness in 2015.

470. And A.C.E. stood for the ability to conquer everything.

471. It was a woman-empowerment type of gym.

472. They used to call me the booty-builder.

473. So my main thing was, I had a specialty of, like, building the butt.

474. Social media was everything for use.

475. That's how we booked our business.

476. Herleen joined the gym in the beginning of 2018.

477. She was 26-years-old.

478. She was very quiet,

479. uh, standoffish, she was unconfident in herself.

480. She spoke a lot about this dark place that she was in.

481. She came to Vegas, I believe, to...

482. try and find herself, to clear her mind, and become something more,

483. and just build that overall confidence.

484. And that the gym really brought out the best in her.

485. This is her transformation.

486. She lost 40 pounds in a month.

487. How're you feeling, Herleen?

488. I feel like...

489. And her body started to transform.

490. You could definitely tell a big difference in her overall confidence.

491. We were like a family.

492. We spoke openly about everything,

493. and then one day, at one of our meetings...

494. She just broke out and told us that she was battling cancer this whole time.

495. She was having bad migraines.

496. She would go inside of a dark room, and she'd close the doors,

497. turn the lights off, and she would just lay in there.

498. And you could just tell that she was really going through it.

499. I didn't know her to have a lot of friends outside of the gym.

500. Most of her relationships, and, and friendships that she built was...

501. coming from the gym.

502. Herleen's come-up only lasts so long.

503. Eventually she spirals back.

504. She leaves the gym.

505. She starts gaining weight again,

506. becomes more anxious and isolated.

507. At this point, Herleen and Ash connect.

508. She said this to him.

509. Anytime she would try to get something done,

510. or something good was gonna happen,

511. there would be, like, some kind of dark energy that would just...

512. diminish everything around her.

513. They went for a spiritual retreat to Zion.

514. Apparently it was amazing epiphany of sorts that they both had.

515. She figured out what it was, the darkness was,

516. and he figured out that he wanted to be able to heal, and...

517. hearing it from someone telling him, like, you are a healer...

518. I definitely think that Ash felt like he could help her.

519. They were getting close.

520. And, of course, jealousy plays a part.

521. He said that they decided that they weren't going to...

522. have any kind of romantic relationship,

523. and that it was just gonna be solely on healing.

524. I mean, you know how women are. Like, we don't...

525. believe the first thing that's always said to us.

526. Around that time, Ash became a little more irrational than normal.

527. The way he held himself and the way he talked started making me worry

528. about him mentally.

529. By this point,

530. Ash has four or five years of on again, off again substance use,

531. experimenting with massive dosses of mushrooms.

532. He's still doing steroids.

533. So you're mixing up a really dangerous cocktail.

534. One night he'd said that he was having really bad dreams.

535. He was having the worst tremors.

536. His whole body was like shaking.

537. He told me that the devil was trying to disguise himself as his loved ones

538. to try to take him to the underworld.

539. His energy was all over the place.

540. I just had a weird feeling

541. that something bad was gonna happen.

542. Out of nowhere I get, a, like a hostile message from him...

543. Where is this coming from? It was just so left field.

544. I did not recognize this person I was talking to on the phone anymore.

545. It did not sound like him at all.

546. He said, "Your whole life is gonna fall down around you, Tia."

547. And I'm like, "Wait, what did you say?

548. Why would you say that to me?"

549. And I'm like, "Whatever, I'm done."

550. And blocked him on my social media,

551. and I blocked him on my phone.

552. When we talk about Ash and his instability,

553. he's starting to show that he is... not this enlightened healer,

554. and getting into a fight, getting into an argument,

555. which tells you that maybe he really did have that on mask for a while.

556. But that mask is slipping, that persona is falling away.

557. I think that when you look at Ash's relationships,

558. I don't think Ash ever really got over Toochi Kash.

559. Every relationship after Toochi

560. was just a struggle for Ash trying to compare what he had...

561. and he was still very angry with the men that she dated...

562. I was in the gym working out with John, creating video content

563. for his Instagram feed...

564. I received a text message from Ash...

565. Told him I'm ready to fight.

566. Okay.

567. Okay.

568. On July 16th, I received a text message from Rex.

569. He said, "Ash, he finally popped."

570. I was like, "Damn!"

571. Hey, brother. What's your, uh, what you last name real quick?

572. - Yeah, K-U... - K-U...

573. - B, as in boy... - B?

574. - B, yeah, B. - Uh-huh.

575. I-A-K.

576. The news, it said that he has killed his girlfriend.

577. I didn't know who the person was. I assumed it was Tia.

578. I had, on social media alone,

579. probably 200, 300 messages.

580. Getting phone calls like, "Are you alive?"

581. Not just some of the city that I was in,

582. most of the whole city did.

583. I reached out to a couple of other friends that are in the circle,

584. and they explained that it was a client.

585. And I said, "A client?" I said, "It doesn't even sound right."

586. I got a call from one of our trainers.

587. She was just hysterical on the, on the phone, and she...

588. told me somebody killed Herleen.

589. And I didn't believe it.

590. So I ended up just looking it up myself.

591. For sure it was Herleen Dulai...

592. beaten to death.

593. This is what we know.

594. At 10:20 a.m., on the morning of July 16th,

595. Ash Armand called 911.

596. Okay.

597. Ash claims this was an accident.

598. An accidental murder due to mushrooms would be...

599. I knocked her down a flight of stairs,

600. I freaked out, and pushed her.

601. And she hit her head.

602. But not what Ash did.

603. And the autopsy report is particularly brutal...

604. when you...

605. look at how much physical damage...

606. was done to Herleen's body.

607. The cause of death is blunt force trauma.

608. There's...

609. repeated blows to the body,

610. there is pulverization of the jaw,

611. teeth fragments found in the stomach.

612. During the investigation,

613. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department detectives

614. observed a packed suitcase covered with candle wax,

615. candle wax on the victim's hair and body.

616. Detectives observed blood inside the washing machine.

617. Detectives also found watered down, or diluted blood in the bathroom.

618. So at some point...

619. he attempted to clean up this mess.

620. And then, a moment later on

621. where he decides to call the police and then turn himself in.

622. That doesn't seem, one, accidental,

623. and two, like the actions of somebody that was...

624. on a hallucinogenic spiritual journey.

625. I... was in complete shock.

626. No. Not at all.

627. I don't think it really all hit me

628. until later on, when I was thinking, it could've been me.

629. It could have been me.

630. Once I read what I read,

631. that he beat her to senseless with his hands, like a barbarian.

632. I was like, what the hell went through your mind?

633. What made you go into the depths of that hell to do that to somebody?

634. In Vegas, if you have problems controlling your desires,

635. this place will eat you alive.

636. The contributing factors, whether it was...

637. pent up aggression from living an increasingly frustrated life,

638. challenges to his emotional and psychological wellbeing,

639. the Instagram likes and clicks,

640. semi-recreational steroid usage,

641. hallucinogenic drugs and other mind-altering substances...

642. Can't pinpoint any one of those things

643. and say, "That's it. That's the thing that made it happen."

644. It's a whole bunch of things.

645. This is a guy riding...

646. on a downward spiral.

647. She was keeping, whether she knew it or not, dangerous company.

648. These are the...

649. fans in shock.

650. "What the?"

651. "How could such a man do this?"

652. "Are they high or what?"

653. "He came across as the most caring, gentle, happy guy. Not a killer."

654. Reading these comments you can see that even his followers...

655. just like his friends, they're in shock.

656. I mean, here's a person that they followed, who had this kind, loving persona...

657. who, all of a sudden is in jail for murder.

658. Obviously, I played a part in creating that image for him.

659. I know that I didn't intend for his character

660. to become that person, but it did.

661. I do take it personally...

662. um, because if I wouldn't have met him,

663. he wouldn't have been in Las Vegas.

664. Herleen's last words,

665. "Keep growing and keep shining and don't let life make you hard."

666. There's nothing that she wouldn't do for you.

667. There's nothing that you couldn't talk to her about, and...

668. the sweetest, sweetest soul.

669. And her hugs was just infectious, like...

670. She would hug you and just hold you for a long time.

671. Like, this is what you needed.

672. Whether it's a workout, whether it's in life,

673. just make sure you keep pushing 'cause that's all that matters...

674. is that you keep leveling up.

675. Because if you stay in the comfort zone, your dreams are gonna die.

676. Everything goes to.

677. So keep growing, keep leveling up.

678. And we're here for you to help you, push you.

679. Like you couldn't be mad at her.

680. Couldn't be mad at her for sure.

681. I honestly don't think this would've ever happened

682. if it wasn't this dangerous combination of social media,

683. added with fame,

684. added with the lifestyle,

685. and then all of the drugs.

686. You mix that with emotions,

687. substances with rage and...

688. you get Ash.

689. Hey guys, welcome to my channel.

690. When influencers share posts everyday

691. they're building a community.

692. She was one of the first influencers.

693. She modernized her culture.

694. She knew she had a purpose and that was to help people.

695. But, it can get very toxic very quickly.

696. Please, keep watching.

697. One of the dangers of social media is not knowing

698. who is behind these accounts

699. or what they're truly capable of.

700. Is your name Bianca?

701. No matter how much you know someone online

702. you only see a certain part of them.

703. She'd like to report her daughter as missing.

704. Question was is she tied up somewhere and still alive?

705. She might be stuck, trapped, being held.

706. It is driving you crazy until you snap.

707. That's when we realized we're not just looking for a killer.

708. We're dealing with something evil here.

709. This place will eat you alive.