Introducing: My Friend Daisy
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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Speaker 1 If you're anything like me, you probably think of TikTok as a place for cute pet videos, get ready with me's, and viral dance trends.
Speaker 1 But a few years ago, a group of teenage girls used TikTok for an entirely different and utterly heartbreaking reason to track down their friend Daisy's killer.
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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.
They put out something on social media.
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So, and they put out my cell number. So I'd get calls in the middle of the night all the time.
See him everywhere. He's here.
He's there. He's here.
He's there. And the crazy thing is, it worked.
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I get a phone call from our office. They want to transfer a phone call to me.
Some comandante from some police in Mexico. That's when it kind of clicked on that.
Speaker 1 I'm Paris Hilton, executive producer of My Friend Daisy, a gripping new true crime podcast that uncovers the shocking murder of 19-year-old Daisy De Lao and the teenage detectives who refused to let her case go cold.
Speaker 1 I started investing my time to, you know, get her justice. It's like, how do you think you're gonna get away with something like this? Like, you killed somebody.
Speaker 1 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.
Speaker 1 It's a story about justice, resilience, and the power of a viral movement that sparked an international manhunt. Listen to My Friend Friend Daisy on America's number one podcast network, iHeart.
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