After 19-year-old Daisy De La O was murdered outside her Compton apartment, her friends and family looked to authorities to make an arrest. When that didn’t happen, they took matters into their own hands. Their secret weapon? TikTok. The online videos spawned an international manhunt, rallying amateur detectives to do something radical: Help catch a killer.
From London Audio, iHeart Radio, and executive producer Paris Hilton, My Friend Daisy is a ten-part investigative series written and hosted by L.A. journalist Jenn Swann. Each episode dives deep into the murder investigation and its fallout, exposing what went wrong, how it went viral, and why American communities are turning to social media to find justice.
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Episode Transcript
If you're anything like me, you probably think of TikTok
as a place for cute pet videos, get Ready with Me,
and viral dance trends. But a few years ago, a
group of teenage girls use TikTok for an entirely different
and utterly heartbreaking reason to track down their friend, Daisy's killer.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I didn't find out about her death until I saw
it on TikTok, and I was just like shocked. I
was like, nah, like, it's a lie. You know, it's
a lie.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
They put out something on social media. So and they
put out my sound number, so I'd get called in
the middle of the night. All the time you have everywhere.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
He's here, he's there, he's here, he's there.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
And the crazy thing is it worked.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
We get a phone call from our office. I want
to transfer a phone call to me some commandante from
some police in Mexico. That's when I kind of clicked on.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I'm Paris Hilton, executive producer of My Friend Daisy, a
gripping new true crime podcast that uncovers the shocking murder
of nineteen year old Daisy Dello and the teenage detectives
who refuse to let her case go cold. I started
investing my time to, you know, get her justice.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
It's like, how do you think you're going to get
away with something like this, like you killed somebody?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Our host, journalist Jen Swan, spent years digging into this story,
the secrets, the suspects, and the system that failed Daisy.
This is more than just a murder case. It's a
story about justice, resilience, and the power of a viral
movement that sparked an international manhunt. Listen to My Friend
Daisy on America's number one podcast network, iHeart. Follow my
(01:33):
Friend Daisy and start listening to the free iHeartRadio app
today
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Paris Hilton
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