The Murder of Carly Ryan
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Oof, you guys. This hit home.
Carly Ryan was a bright, loving young girl who had a solid relationship with her mum, Sonia. Carly was a typical teenage girl in 2006 \\u2013 she loved emo music, alternative fashion, and she was heavily invested, like we all were back in the glory days, in her MySpace profile. On MySpace, she met a guy \\u2013 Brandon, who liked all the things Carly liked, and most importantly, liked Carly.
Carly and Brandon began an online relationship, but Carly found out that Brandon was not who he said he was in the worst way.
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Carly Ryan was murdered in February of 2007, by the person that claimed to be her online boyfriend\\u2019s father. In reality, he was a man in his fifties by the name of Garry Newman, who had been catfishing Carly for eighteen months, pretending to be a teenaged muso named Brandon. Carly fell for Brandon, big time, and was upset when he couldn\\u2019t travel from Melbourne to South Australia for her birthday party. Brandon\\u2019s dad, Shane, would be in SA on business at the time though, so he popped in to the party to meet his son\\u2019s girlfriend.
Or so the story went. In reality, Garry was finally gaining access to the teenage girl he\\u2019d groomed for months, and he wasted no time getting his hands on Carly. Carly\\u2019s mum Sonia caught Garry interfering with her daughter and kicked him out of the house, and banned Carly from social media. But Carly was in love with Brandon, so when he said that he could finally come to Adelaide and meet her, she couldn\\u2019t say no. There, Carly met Garry, and his real son, posing as \\u201cBrandon\\u201d. Carly would never come back home to her mother after this meeting.
Carly Ryan was murdered by a twisted predator, who preyed on her totally normal, 15-year-old desire to be loved and cared for. When the media got hold of the story, they latched on to Carly\\u2019s involvement in the emo subculture, which of course has nothing to do with the fact that she was the victim of a murderous pedophile.
Sonia created the Carly Ryan Foundation in Carly\\u2019s memory, which is committed to educating parents and children about online safety. You can access their website here https://www.carlyryanfoundation.com/
You can listen to an interview with Sonia here https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/south-queensland-drive/mum-of-murdered-teen-carly-ryan-speaks-out/11371764?fbclid=IwAR3c0igLl37OuMSrC4hrz40kI4C-yDtPVpflgN2xIz1LqwKR2ewEjGcIxe8
Mysterious, enigmatic podcast overlord Casey Casefile also covered Carly\\u2019s case, which you can listen to here https://casefilepodcast.com/case-91-carly-ryan/?fbclid=IwAR3KsbkyVjTVss0gl-dNL_4MrK6ZK7uCa1uxsBuxI24AzecXXEqnt4ni5gY
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