The Cut - A Murder Solved in DMs

On TikTok, missing people are everywhere. Or rather, the people looking for them are. There are moms missing children, children missing grandparents, husbands missing wives, strangers missing people they’ve never met but whom they can’t stop thinking about. Some of these missing people are victims of a crime; others are suspects wanted for their alleged involvement in one. Often, those searching for someone have at least one thing in common: grief, maybe, but also a general mistrust of the criminal-justice system, a sense that they have been failed or abandoned by police and prosecutors and journalists, that crowdsourced vigilantism is the only avenue for justice.

At least that’s how Rebecca Fuentes felt when she uploaded a TikTok on May 26, 2021. The 46-second clip begins with an introduction: “This is my friend Daisy,” reads the white text over a photo of a woman smiling on a carnival ride, the neon lights in the background tinting her face with a pink glow. She has wing-tip eyeliner, a septum ring, and a shock of black-and-turquoise hair that peeks out from under a pink beanie. She looks exuberant. “On February 23rd, she was murdered,” reads a line of text above a series of photos of a young guy with shoulder-length shaggy black hair and tattoos across his arms and torso. He wears a beanie in one photo and a bowler hat in another. The TikTok culminates with a plea for help in finding him. “Tik tok do your thing and blow this up so we can find this a$$hole,” the caption reads.

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