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[Music] in this job we see a lot of good we see a lot of bad but this one always takes
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you back to why why would something be so random and so devastating On January 2nd 2006 NCIS my office got a call from
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the Navy Marine Intelligence training center that one of their Marines Justin Huff did not show up for roll call we
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didn't have any idea he just disappeared off the face of the planet when they went in the barracks room it didn't
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appear as though Justin had left permanently it's almost like he just stepped out for a minute the first time
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I heard about it it was that he was UA UA is unauthorized absence things that every one of us looked at each other
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we're like that doesn't make sense Justin Huff was a good person he was a decorated Marine he fought for this
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country in two tours to Iraq I love you Becca a loving husband a soon-to-be father he would lay down his life for
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anybody you don't even have to know the damn people and that's what just the type of person he was
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we pulled surveillance video of the night before he went missing and we were able to see him leaving in the middle of
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the night his dorm room and leaving the building to go out of view but the circumstance I started getting
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more and more suspicious as every day went along someone called him in his dorm room and asked him to come out and
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talk to him about a sexual assault and that person was portraying himself as an NCIS agent
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our first investigative duty was to look into whether Justin Huff was under any type of NCIS investigation and we
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quickly learned that he was not so we were wondering who this guy was that was posing as an NCIS agent and talking to
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Justin early on in the investigation we had another name Cooper Jackson but we didn't know who he
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was and we could not make any correlation between him and Justin because they did not know each other
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Cooper Jackson was a good-looking young man kept himself in good shape worked out all the time he was intelligence
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specialist in the Navy which you have to be pretty smart to do that very polite that was yes sir no sir I
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mean just to meet him you wouldn't think anything out of the ordinary on paper Justin Huff and Cooper Jackson seemed
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very similar both all-american boys one was a Marine one was in the Navy as the investigation continued there was a very
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strange connection between Justin Huff and Cooper Jackson that we could have never predicted there was another
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individual that came into the picture by the name of Samantha Samantha wasn't a real name
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oh I saw the pictures of the young lady some of them she was in a devils outfit for Halloween you know some pictures
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were naked she portrayed herself as a blond hair blue-eyed five feet gorgeous young lady
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what Samantha was doing is what we now know as catfishing and it basically involves creating a persona that you're
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not then Cooper became smitten with her they were romantically involved in a phone relationship but they had never
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met didn't sound real the whole story on the face that's like movie TV stuff you
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know it's I mean the whole thing started as a lie a lie just kept getting bigger
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and bigger and bigger and I don't believe you know she knew what could have happened or what did happen we
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could not find a correlation between Samantha and Justin and that's what we needed to investigate I think Samantha
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was the catalyst for this whole tragedy but for her none of this would happen [Music]
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