Karen watched a lot of true crime documentaries. She watched a lot of human interest interviews with detectives and investigators explaing their work on morning TV.
She didn't do it right away, of course.
First, she installed VPNs and several other cyber-privacy tools, and learned more about IT and tracking than she ever intended. Then she put that knowledge to good use, split away from her laptop's serial number and created three digital identities for herself - because why not be thorough? Why have two when you can have more.
One was Karen Page.
She was a sweet girl from Vermont, who liked cat videos and her friends' Facebook posts. She had embarassing social media photos from high school, and a fuck_you_too email address from her rebelious phase. She was traumatised a little from her last job and devoted to her new one, and she read about how to be a paralegal or a journalist.
Second was Joanne; that was the true crime one.
She was a bored housewife in her late 40s, who looked up diet breakfast recipes, how to make your teenager clean their room, and visited 'divorce lawyer near me' in San Francisco. She daydreamed about taking a college course for forensic science but knew she'll never do it - so after a yet another explosive argument with her son or her husband, she went on obsessive google searches about it, for comfort.
DA: Mini-fill (?) — part 1
Karen watched a lot of true crime documentaries. She watched a lot of human interest interviews with detectives and investigators explaing their work on morning TV.
She didn't do it right away, of course.
First, she installed VPNs and several other cyber-privacy tools, and learned more about IT and tracking than she ever intended. Then she put that knowledge to good use, split away from her laptop's serial number and created three digital identities for herself - because why not be thorough? Why have two when you can have more.
One was Karen Page.
She was a sweet girl from Vermont, who liked cat videos and her friends' Facebook posts. She had embarassing social media photos from high school, and a fuck_you_too email address from her rebelious phase. She was traumatised a little from her last job and devoted to her new one, and she read about how to be a paralegal or a journalist.
Second was Joanne; that was the true crime one.
She was a bored housewife in her late 40s, who looked up diet breakfast recipes, how to make your teenager clean their room, and visited 'divorce lawyer near me' in San Francisco. She daydreamed about taking a college course for forensic science but knew she'll never do it - so after a yet another explosive argument with her son or her husband, she went on obsessive google searches about it, for comfort.
The third was Tom. He was a terrorist.