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In Episode 5, we explored an online persona Laura allegedly created, but there was another alleged persona that we didn’t have time to get into. In this bonus episode, we're sharing this cut-for-time scene, as content creators Megan Fox and Lauren Neidigh tell the story of a man claiming to be Laura Owens’ ex-boyfriend.
To get the most out of this bonus episode, listen after Episode 5, "Sounds Familiar?"
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Hey it's Stephanie back with the bonus episode
We talked in episode five about the personas Laura allegedly used online
There was one more alleged persona that we didn't have time to get into
So in this bonus episode we want to bring you a scene that was cut for time
During my research I talked to many of the online content creators covering this story
And there's a few you haven't met yet like Megan Fox
And no not the actress Megan Fox
This Megan is a journalist and a podcaster on YouTube
You'll hear more from her in upcoming episodes
When I talk to Megan I asked her if Laura ever contacted her directly
No not once
Well okay let me take that fact that's not true
She may have because I did get several emails from Tag
A man named Tag started emailing content creators claiming to be Laura's ex-boyfriend
Megan my friends call me Tag
And over the past few months I have been following the situation regarding Laura Owens
A woman I dated and was involved with intimately from mid late 2015 to 2016
I am not fully ready to come forward publicly with my story but I'm willing to support you
And the other victims specifically with what I feel could be valuable background information
And help fill in some critical information holes
Tag said that he just wanted the truth about Laura Owens to come out
He admits to feeling a lot of guilt over their alleged relationship
Noting that he didn't truly understand the situation while he was in it
Tag then turns his attention to Dave Neal
Here's Megan reading that part of Tag's email
He and I have zero connection or personal history yet I was immediately revolced
By literally almost all of his content from day one
Frankly he's an unfunny vulgarian and I take serious issue with him calling himself a journalist
For Megan this was immediately suspicious
Most people love Dave Neal
You can't hate Dave, Dave is great, Dave is very difficult to hate
I mean nobody hates Dave like this except Laura
Megan decided not to report on the email from Tag
To her, the language sounded suspiciously similar to the kind of thing Laura Owens often says
But Tag's emails kept coming
So one of the things that did throw me off in the second email that Tag sent
Tag gave up some information about Chase J. Jones
Remember, Chase J. Jones was the Howard University student trying to cancel Clayton
A character that allegedly led straight back to Laura's phone number
For Megan, the fact that Tag knew Chase J. Jones was too convenient
It's gotta be Laura
Megan decided to try and verify to see if Tag was who he said he was
I tried to get this person on the phone
And this person said they would be available and then nothing
And every time I would say let's get on the phone there'd be some excuse
Oh I'm traveling through Vienna, that was my favorite
I'm on a train in Vienna
If someone won't actually get on the phone with you
It's a very good sign that they're not who they say they are
Even still, Megan kept her suspicions to herself
I never mentioned it to anyone publicly until Tag started contacting Lauren
Lauren 90 is another YouTuber who began covering the case after seeing Laura's reddit posts
Lauren had been following Dave Neal's content
I saw that people were kind of going in on Dave
And he was getting a lot of backlash for going after someone who people thought was either the victim or she was mentally ill
At the time, Lauren worked as a psych evaluator at a hospital
She felt like she had professional insight into this kind of behavior
I myself had been working in a hospital for a long time as a psych evaluator
Who works with patients who come into the hospital, the ER
Who need help and I have to determine whether or not they're actually a danger to themselves
Or if there's somebody who maybe needs help but can deal with this on an outpatient basis
And I had to determine what's the basis for the things that you're seeing
And what's the motivation behind these things
A lot of times people would say, well, I did this to get XYZ reaction from somebody or there was a means to an end
And that's what I was seeing in Laura
I was seeing a lot of these threats being made for a means to an end
And people were going after Dave in a way that I was like really uncomfortable with
I was like, you guys don't understand the things that go into these evaluations
And what people say and why
And that there's more to the story than just somebody made a threat
Now we all have to stop talking about it, we have to give them what they want or else
And so I kind of came to Dave's defense a little bit
And that's how I got involved
Lauren started making her own YouTube videos discussing the case
Then in spring of 2024
I get an email from somebody claiming to be Laura's ex-boyfriend named Tag
Which, if you know the Chase J. Jones story, you know it's kind of ridiculous because it's Tag and Chase
But he tried to convince me basically that Laura really was like sick
And he really was worried that she was going to do something to hurt herself
Lauren took it seriously, she didn't report on it
But she responded to Tag
I was very empathetic and responded in a way that I would respond to anybody who was dealing with a person of that kind of illness
Where she was struggling with suicidal thoughts
And they didn't respond and I tried again to say like, will you please talk to me and verify your identity as you offered to do
And it's like I never heard back again after that
Content creators like Lauren and Megan Fox regularly talked offline about the case
And one day, Lauren mentioned the Tag email to Megan
Who then let me know that she had also received an email from Tag
And we compared our emails and they were very different in tone
Both of them have in common that he tried to basically gas us up to make us feel good about ourselves while putting down other people like Dave
They were never able to prove if Tag was a real person
I think that the idea of Tag was to report on this and be like, hey, someone from Laura's past came out and said like, this is actually true
To get people talking online about how her story was not made up, basically, and it didn't work
If it was Laura behind these emails from Tag, she might have done it to try to get sympathy from people online
But it seems to have backfired
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