Who Killed Fashion Icon Gianni Versace? 'Dateline' Dives Into Tragic Story “I thought I had a little bit of credibility and so if I had red flags, it would translate to the deputy there,” Hooks said of agreeing to report the disappearance to the Gunnison County Sheriff’s Office. Millison’s friends at the jiu jitsu gym were also getting concerned, including his friend Jared Hooks, who just happened to be a sergeant with the nearby Mount Crested Butte Police Department. “ I texted him to see what was up and never got a reply, which was really weird because I pretty much talked to him every day,” Martinez recalled. But the next morning, Millison never responded to Martinez’s texts and seemingly vanished into thin air. When Martinez dropped him back off at his home around midnight, the pair made tentative plans to get together the next day. Friend Randy Martinez had been out to a movie and the bars with him just the night before. Which is why Millison’s friends were so concerned when he suddenly vanished on May 16, 2015. “He was there every night, four nights a week.” “Jake was the most consistent student that was ever in that gym,” gym buddy Derek Chodorowski recalled. RELATED: Who Killed A Popular Aspen Socialite Found Stuffed In A Closet? Millison, they said, was also a creature of habit, spending his days tirelessly working on his stepfather’s sprawling 7-11 ranch before heading into town on his beloved vintage Harley Davidson motorcycle to go to the jiu jitsu gym and then stop at the local Gunnison bars to play pool and visit with friends. He was always the responsible one, trying to do the smart thing in tricky situations,” friend Nate Lopez told Dateline reporter Josh Mankiewicz. “Even though he was only a couple years older than us, he always acted like an old man. To his friends, Millison was known as the “old man” of the group, choosing to drink Coke at the bar over beer. Watch the heart-pounding moments when, as he leaves our hidden camera house, he refuses to follow orders from the arresting officers.Jake Millison, featured on Dateline: Secrets Uncovered 1122 You'll see the grooming process in real time.Īlso in Kentucky we see a range of men show up, from a factory worker to a man who says he's a police detective and carries a gun. She is just as effective in this latest investigation as she was before talking to the men in person. You'll see in Kentucky that we employ the same online decoy, Casey, who we used in New Jersey. As you will see, seven men show up over three and a half days and all seven are arrested after I talk to them and they leave the house. He had been chatting online about having sex with a decoy posing as a13-year-old girl before showing up to meet her at the undercover house.Įven after this earlier high-profile case, though, we still saw men in our investigation eager to meet a young teen home alone for sex. One of them was a 59-year old criminal justice instructor at an Ohio college who used to be an elementary school teacher. Looking back I think this at least partially because the Kentucky Attorney General's office and the Kentucky Bureau of Investigation, along with local law enforcement, have been actively pursuing online predators in the past year.īefore Dateline's investigation in Bowling Green, the Attorney General's office with the help of the online watchdog group Perverted Justice had conducted two previous sting operations without us, making 20 arrests. Within hours I am struck by the fact that fewer men are showing up at our hidden camera house than in past investigations. It's a town of about 50,000 people an hour north of Nashville, Tennessee.Įach one of these investigations has its own rhythm and Kentucky is no different. It's our twelfth "To Catch A Predator" investigation and this time we're set up in a 6,000- square foot home in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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