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[tense music]

Lexi Zettle: They were these three hotshots

living the high life,

brothers who thought they ruled the world.

There were lawsuits against all three of the brothers,

which included allegations of rape.

It seemed at this point that it was gonna be

much bigger than these two women.

Abigail Hofeldt: People were afraid of them.

People were scared to talk.

I was thinking, "Should I go to the police? Do I tell?"

He comes from a powerful family.

Zettle: I'm like, "Oh, my God." I picked up the phone.

I was shaking as I called the lawyer.

Bridget Read: Victims were not staying silent anymore.

The media and the public was taking notice,

and it looked like time could be up for the brothers.

[♪]

[city din]

Zettle: [tearful] Tal caused me so much pain.

I tried to tell people what happened to me.

They just didn't take me seriously.

But when that Real Deal article dropped

and women started to come forward,

I started speaking to lawyers who told me

I could take legal action.

I had this vengeance about what they did to my sister.

[intense music]

Towards the end of 2015,

we went on this trip to Vegas.

I invited my sister.

We rode on a private jet.

When I was in another room,

Tal and his friend, who'd brought me on the trip,

cornered my sister.

They said to her, "If you don't hook up with us,

you're not gonna get a flight back to New York."

And my baby sister...

she wasn't even old enough to drink.

[tearful] She thought she was gonna help us get back.

And they took advantage of my baby sister

when I was in another room.

And my sister came out...

I think she saw the look in my eyes.

She-- she said-- she said, "Lexi, it's okay. It's okay.

We got a flight back." Like, "It's fine."

She thought she was taking one for the team.

[solemn music]

The fact that I didn't protect her...

that guilt...

it stays with me.

I might forget what you did to me,

but I will never forget how you harmed

the person I care about most in this life.

Years later, I got with attorneys,

and one thing led to the next.

So fast-forward to a mediation that I pursued with him.

Outside of the mediation, I ran into him.

I was leaving, and I got off at the wrong floor,

and he was standing there with his lawyer.

And I was like...

"Eff." [laughs]

I don't know if I-- can I cuss?

Okay. I was like, "Fuck, fuck, fuckity fuck."

And his lawyer walked away,

so we just had, like, a personal moment,

and it was just the weirdest thing.

Like, Tal just drew me to him again.

He was saying things like, "Lexi, you know--

you know me and my brothers, like, we're good-looking guys.

We don't need to, like, drug girls to get laid.

Like, you know that. You know that!"

And then he was like, "You know, a lot of these girls

that are filing a lawsuit,"

he's like, "I don't even know half of them, Lexi.

Never even met them in my life.

So maybe if you have something on them, maybe--

maybe, you know, we could work together, we could be a team."

Basically, he's, like, asking me to, like, help him

to find dirt on the other victims.

And I drew the line. I said no.

And he goes-- he goes, "Look, I-- I have some friends

who know where your sister works.

Lexi, I would never do anything.

I-- You know-- you know me, I'd never do anything.

But, you know...

don't wanna have to get to that point."

And it's like, "What the fuck? Did you just threaten me?"

[exhales]

Like...

you have no idea what these guys are capable of.

[♪]

Everett Stern: So I wanted to come here and share

what happened with the Alexander brothers,

because it's important for the American public to know

this is not just a case of,

you know, women being raped and sexually assaulted.

This is a case of, you know, victims also being targeted,

um, and trying to be silenced.

My name is Everett Stern, uh,

and I'm the intelligence director

of a private intelligence agency.

We work more serious cases, so corporate espionage,

trade secret theft, uh, competitor intelligence,

and litigation support.

Really trying to provide leverage

for a case to be able to win.

I'd never met the Alexander brothers before.

At this point, September 2024, they were not charged,

they were not arrested.

There were just a couple civil complaints against them.

In the world that I operate in,

there's a lot of people who are falsely accused,

and there are people out there that try to extort others

to get money out of them.

I mean, it's a crazy world out there. It does happen.

[phone line ringing]

Oren invited me to a coffee shop down in Miami.

He immediately got into business with me.

I mean, he was talking to me

like I was one of his frat brothers.

Look, I mean, can I say kind of, like, what--

some of the language he was using, or--

- Interviewer: Yeah. - Again, I don't wanna

be inappropriate, I don't want-- Um...

He goes, "You know, we're young, we're hot, we're rich.

You know, these-- these women, they-- they--

you know, they're just trying to extort us, and--"

Excuse my language here, but...

they just wanted to fuck all the time and this, and--

It-- it was just of-- I don't wanna get too-- too graphic,

but it was definitely an inappropriate,

graphic conversation.

He came off extremely arrogant.

I said, "Oren, I need to see evidence

that you're telling the truth."

So he said, "Everett, I want you to meet the family."

He then invited me back to Alon's house,

and I actually texted my wife my location

so she knew where the hell I was...

because in every spy movie you can possibly see,

you know, something bad always happens

when you get in someone else's vehicle.

[intense music]

When I arrived at Alon's house,

Shlomi, their father, answered the door,

and he immediately went on this tangent about

how, you know, he came to this country with two nickels

and they're trying to take every dime from him and the family.

I mean, he was pissed off.

And then this other guy shows up, an older man.

I was very nervous at this point.

But I got even more nervous when this older gentleman,

he didn't say his name.

He refused. He said, "I'm not giving you my name."

That struck me as odd.

And that's when I was asked by this other gentleman,

"If you find out they're guilty, are you gonna blow the whistle?"

That question was insane.

My answer was yes. [chuckles]

I mean, if I find out that they're guilty,

then yeah, I'm-- I am gonna blow the whistle.

And I wanted to get out of there at this point.

I mean, I wanted to run.

But what was interesting is that they continued the conversation.

And I think it was 'cause they were desperate.

And this older gentleman said, "We wanna try out

your intelligence-gathering abilities.

You know, this guy, this lawyer representing the women

is orchestrating and we think is paying the women

to go after the family."

And he said, "The lawyer's Evan Torgan.

That's your target."

And he goes, "Everett, it's gang initiation time."

Those were his exact words.

He said, "It's gang initiation time.

If you wanna help this family, you're gonna prove yourself."

And-- and at this-- In my head, I'm saying,

"Fuck this." Like, that's what I'm saying.

Excuse my language, but that's-- that's what I'm saying.

I said goodbye to everybody, got back in Oren's car,

and I said, "Who was that guy?"

Oren would not give me his name either.

He just said, "Everett, he's the consigliere of the family."

The second he said that word--

"He's the conciliary of the family."

I was like, what are they-- what is this, a mob family?

What is this, the Gambinos?

I had no idea what-- I mean, who says that?

But then this older gentleman texted me.

The second I got back into my car,

I called up my team and I said, "Trace this number."

And that's where I found out his name is Sam Burstyn.

He was a former lawyer,

and he served time in federal prison.

I mean, my brain at this point exploded.

I ended up calling Evan.

[phone ringing]

Evan Torgan: I was sitting in my office at my desk,

and I get a phone call from a man named Everett Stern.

And he basically warned me that

the brothers were gonna try and discredit the women,

find dirt on the women,

and also try to target me.

It was a rude awakening,

because with all the cases that I've been involved with

and all the trials I've done and all the people I've represented,

it was never personal with a lawyer.

And the feeling of how personal it was against me...

was... alarming.

But I wasn't gonna give up because of that.

What it did was, it made me realize

exactly how these women feel

and why they didn't even wanna come forward.

And when he said he was gonna go to the FBI...

I didn't think it was a bad idea.

Stern: I shared with them all my communications,

and they said, "Everett, keep this very quiet."

I heard nothing from the family ever again.

Nothing at all.

This family has a lot to lose.

They are gonna fight and do whatever they can to win.

I realized that now I'm playing on a totally different level.

Totally different level.

At the very same time as this happened to me,

there was a criminal investigation going on.

One by the United States Attorney

and one in Florida.

I can't say what started the investigation,

but there were women who wanted them in prison

for what they had done to them.

If I hadn't brought witnesses to the investigators,

I would've felt like an absolute failure as a lawyer,

as an absolute failure as their lawyer.

Read: More and more women are coming forward.

They're going to the FBI and to the police.

And that includes three women in Miami Beach, Florida.

[tense music]

[police radio chatter]

[police radio chatter]

- [police radio chatter] - [siren wailing]

- [police radio chatter] - [siren wailing]

[police radio chatter]

[siren wailing]

Officer 1: You getting there?

Sir? Step in.

[indistinct] transporting a white male.

[indistinct]

- Officer 2: 11-88. - Dispatcher: Yes, sir.

Officer 2: I'll be transporting one male, O52CID.

Officer 2: I don't know.

Officer 2: I don't know!

Officer 1: What's your name?

Officer 1: I'm sorry?

Officer 1: Alon.

Officer 2: Come on.

Take a right.

[police radio chatter]

Have a seat over here.

[solemn music]

[♪]

- [Oren sighs] - [knocking at door]

Good morning. How are you today?

Yeah.

Okay. Um...

Yeah.

Smith: Thank you, sir.

Okay? All right.

[♪]

Damian Williams: The Alexander brothers worked together

and with others to repeatedly and violently drug,

sexually assault, and rape dozens of female victims.

Today I'm announcing a three-count indictment

charging Alon Alexander,

Oren Alexander, and Tal Alexander

with sex trafficking offenses.

Reporter 1: On top of their federal indictment,

two of the brothers are also facing state charges

for their alleged actions in Miami.

Three brave women courageously came forward

and reported these three incidents.

Read: Tal was only involved in the federal case,

so he did not appear in the state court.

I covered those initial hearings.

The brothers looked disheveled.

They did not look like themselves.

Reporter 2: Forced to drop their expensive garments

for jumpsuits, red,

usually worn for high-profile defendants,

and a green vest given to inmates to prevent self-harm.

Oren asked the judge to let him out

because his wife was pregnant.

Your Honor, my wife is nine months pregnant,

due any day now with our first child.

Her family's in Brazil.

She's counting on me to be with her during labor.

The brothers seemed to think that they would be able

to post bail, huge amounts of it,

and that would be sufficient to let them go home.

Kallergis: I think at some point, one of the attorneys

was like, "There is no limit as to how much we can offer,"

as in there was no financial limit.

The judges did not let them out.

No comment.

No comment.

Great.

Soon after their arrest,

the federal case against the brothers really takes off.

So all three of them are transferred to New York City

to face the federal charges.

Wall: Federal prosecutors can't typically use rape as a charge.

That's usually a state-level charge.

It's hard to find evidence from an assault that was even,

you know, five years ago.

So state-level rape cases tend to be really difficult.

In recent years, we've seen federal prosecutors

more and more often use sex trafficking charges

in these cases where they allege

there's a pattern of sexual assault.

If someone is found guilty,

sex trafficking carries enormous penalties.

Reporter: You mentioned you believe this behavior

may have started in high school.

Do you expect more victims to come forward?

That's the hope.

Bravery can be very infectious,

especially in this kind of context,

and that's our hope in bringing this case right now.

Next question.

Read: At this moment, everyone watching was wondering...

were they finally going to be held accountable?

Lindsey Acree: It's been a long journey, I suppose.

A long and a short one.

Uh, it's been the hardest thing I've ever dealt with

in my entire life.

Lily Timmerman, my lawyer, said she was connected

to someone with the prosecutor's office,

would you be willing to talk to them?

Of course, I was--

I've never done anything like that before in my life,

and it was nerve-racking, but they were so professional.

And then I got a call that the prosecutors

wanted me to be a part of the indictment,

and if I would agree.

And I said yes.

I was Victim-1 in the indictment.

For legal reasons, I couldn't talk about the case

for a solid, like, year and a half before I entered the trial.

None of the victims can talk.

If I speak to people about anything,

that could be used against them or used against me.

That's when I entered

a period of darkness, of silence,

away from my friends, from my work.

That isolation is, um--

is one of the toughest things.

And then...

time from my daughter

was, like, the worst thing in the world.

Um... all I could say was, you know,

"Just trying to fight some bad guys,

so if I cry, um, or if I seem sad,

it has nothing to do with you."

I didn't want her to think it was her-- Sorry.

I didn't want her to think it was her fault.

Reporter: Prosecutors say Alon, Oren, and Tal Alexander

will soon be facing additional counts.

They told the judge more than 60 women came forward

claiming they were raped by at least one of the brothers...

Marx: Even more women come forward

and contact the FBI and reach out to the authorities

to talk about their experiences.

So they are able to build more and more counts

into the charge sheet.

But sex trafficking can be

a really difficult charge to prove.

And we really saw this in July of 2025 when

federal prosecutors failed to convict Sean Combs

on very similar sex trafficking charges.

Reporter: A jury found Combs not guilty

of racketeering, conspiracy, and sex trafficking,

but found him guilty of lesser charges.

That acquittal made a lot of people worry

that prosecutors had taken too big a swing

in trying to convict the Alexander brothers

of sex trafficking.

And the brothers seized on this,

specifically Oren Alexander, who hired Combs' legal team.

And they started to try to get their narrative out.

They drew parallels to Diddy's case.

The brothers, they eventually hired Juda Engelmayer.

Cameraman: Juda, take one.

Juda Engelmayer: My name is Juda Engelmayer.

I do public relations and crisis communications.

And I've worked with Harvey Weinstein...

- Photographer: Diddy, Diddy. - ...Sean Combs,

Anna Delvey.

I don't care about wealth and fame and fortune,

and I think that enables me to do my job better,

that I don't get taken in easily.

I met with the Alexander boys for the first time mid-May 2025.

They told me all about their case.

A lot of it was very familiar to me.

With a lot of accusations made that sound bad to the public,

but I didn't think it-- it rose to the criminal matter

that they're being charged with.

My task was to take the stories that were out there

in The Real Deal, in Miami Herald,

in The New York Times and various other publications,

and tell the story that the newspapers weren't telling.

Interviewer: And what story is that?

These charges didn't come out

the day after or even the week after.

They came out five, ten, and fifteen years later

when a personal injury attorney

decided, "Bring people together and we can make money."

And this is the way they explain it to themselves,

this is the way they make themselves feel better,

by saying it was a crime.

When I first came on, the only charges were sex trafficking.

And I was like, this is once again,

it's the government taking the trafficking statute

and stretching it, because the trafficking statute

was not set up for this.

Interviewer: They're quite serious charges.

- Yes. Mm-hmm. - Two of them involve a minor.

Interviewer: Most of them have not filed civil claims.

Not yet. Not-- not yet.

Interviewer: I think the important question is,

are people telling the truth?

And when you have so many women who've come forward

- with accounts... - Mm-hmm.

Interviewer: It's not just one person.

It's not just two people.

Volume doesn't make it right.

Interviewer: So you think all of these women are lying?

No, I don't think they're lying about their experiences.

I think what they're saying happened

and what the government's calling a crime

are two different things.

No one deserves to get hurt, but you weren't thinking.

You weren't thinking properly.

You did stupid things to get there as well.

Take some responsibility.

Stern: They were trying very hard to change the narrative.

And what was disgusting to me was that there were other people

that were trying to apply pressure to these women.

And one thing that I saw

which really, really disturbed me was the

AlexanderBrothersExtorted.com website.

And it showed the women and discrediting them.

Torgan: I was sent a link.

At that point, there were a few of the women on it

with an indication that there would be more to come.

And little did I know that the more to come would be me.

But it was a very unflattering picture.

They basically were saying that I was behind all of this.

And they were criticizing individual women,

saying things about them that--

If you have the website,

you could see I wouldn't repeat here.

Tracy Tutor, Samantha Drew Murphy, Renee Willet, Rebecca Mandel, Kate Whiteman, Angelica Parker (formerly Cecora)

Stern: It was a warning to everyone out there in the case

that they were being targeted.

Acree: Before the trial, I felt very frightened

because their defense team had been vicious.

I got a call over the summer from an unknown number,

anonymous, and he left me a lengthy message.

So here's the voicemail.

[sinister music]

Acree: When I got that anonymous voice message,

I realized that...

these people were coming after me.

They weren't playing by any rulebook,

and-- and that did make me afraid,

not just for me, but for anyone that was close to me.

And then...

they started harassing my friends.

One of my good friends was called by a private investigator

pretending to be someone that was supporting me,

so she just assumed they were on my legal team.

And they weren't,

and she was subpoenaed at nine months pregnant.

And I felt this incredible sense of grief,

because any decision I made,

I was making for myself,

and I didn't know that they would

have to be involved in this.

Read: As the trial date got closer,

concerns grew about whether witnesses

might be too afraid to testify.

Torgan: Right before the trial started,

I got contacted by Victim-4,

who I knew pretty well by then.

And she told me

an investigator went to her neighbors

and asked questions about

where her children went to school,

questions about her children.

And just mentioning somebody's children,

I mean, we all know what that means.

I mean, you know, that's--

And I'm not saying these were mob tactics that they did,

but that's the way it was taken,

that, "We know where you live, we know who your children are.

We wanna know where they go to school."

And that was enough for her. She was out.

The only thing she cared about was the safety of her family.

The only thing she cared about was her children.

And from that moment on, it was over,

and she wasn't going forward anymore.

One of the things that went through my mind was,

"I wonder if this is happening to anybody else."

Read: Just weeks before the trial,

this key witness had dropped out.

And it raised the question of,

what does this mean for the prosecution's case?

[♪]

[tense music]

Marx: 500 Pearl Street is at the bottom tip of Manhattan

near the Brooklyn Bridge,

and it's this massively tall building

filled with courts.

[♪]

When you get to that first day,

both the prosecution and the defense

get a chance to introduce their case.

Wall: Prosecutors described their behavior as a playbook,

that the brothers were serial sexual predators

that had gotten all these women to travel

to primarily the Hamptons,

where they were drugged and raped.

Marx: What the prosecution did was explain

that these men enticed or transported

or harbored these women,

and the women, whether they knew it or not,

they accepted something of value in return.

Whereas the defense say,

"Look, you're gonna hear a lot of bad things about these guys,

and we'll be totally honest with you, they're assholes.

But they're not criminals."

Engelmayer: If you went to a party,

you got on a plane 'cause you wanted to go to a party,

you didn't like what happened at the party--

and nothing bad should happen to anybody there,

but you weren't brought there against your will.

You went there on your own.

Trafficking does not-- does not apply.

Marx: It really set the stage to understand

how these two competing sides were gonna try

and move the minds of the jury in their direction.

I didn't know how this case was gonna go.

I mean, if history is any indication, like--

I mostly am looking at the Diddy case--

what they had wasn't compelling enough to a jury.

Marx: A lot of lawyers,

not just the defense lawyers,

thought this was gonna be a very heavy lift

for the prosecutors to prove it.

Read: Dozens of women had come forward.

But to make a criminal case,

prosecutors focused on 11 key women

and tried to prove that the brothers had a pattern

of luring, drugging, and raping women.

[♪]

Marx: One of the really critical arguments

the prosecution made was that the brothers went into

these weekends with women with the intent

to have sex with them by force.

Some of the messages between the brothers and their friends

again and again and again speak to the mindset they had

when it came to, their language, "sexual conquests."

And in one of these instances where Oren is bragging

about how successful he and his twin brother were,

one of the friends writes to him,

"No is not an option."

And Oren responds, "Nope."

This was all happening as Oren and Tal were rapidly ascending

in the luxury real estate business

and projecting this party boy image.

Marx: You've got the brothers and some of their friends

staying in really beautiful properties in the Hamptons

and using those properties to

attract and encourage women to come and stay with them.

And unbeknownst to some of those women,

the brothers are at the same time

messaging between themselves

which women are being recruited to come that weekend.

You have Facebook postings where they're trying to encourage

other men to chip in to pay part of the cost

of renting this place for the summer.

In this Facebook group about a Hamptons home,

it says, like, "If you take a room, girls are included."

What becomes clear as you look through

some of the messages...

these women are traveling down from Chicago

to the Hamptons, for the weekend.

The three brothers, they are discussing

whether to split the cost of the flights.

They agree that's a good idea

and they should "try to orgy them out."

And it's this idea that the intent behind the trips

was purely to sexualize these women.

And you realize there's this kind of an enterprise

behind the scenes, and given what we know about

what happened on those weekends, it's also quite sinister.

[♪]

Zettle: I think there was a part of me

that just couldn't stay away.

There was just, like, a need and a desire to be close to it.

[♪]

And I'd been following the first couple weeks.

I wasn't asked to testify.

And I was like, "Oh, my God, well,

I can't just sit here and read about it.

I need to be there."

[tense music]

Acree: The day I testified,

it's just absolute fear, but...

I mean, you're standing there at these doors,

like, going in front of a judge, a jury.

I've never done anything like that before.

I'm sure I was, like, shaking.

And then you get up there,

and you're having to say words and...

relive, like, the most traumatic thing that's ever happened

to you in front of the men that have done it to you.

With all of their family and friends, and...

you don't know where to look.

And then there's the pressure of wanting to answer correctly

and keep it pulled together.

But you're speaking about horrible things.

Interviewer: I wanted to ask if you were open

to reading a few excerpts of, you know,

what you described in court.

Sure.

"In the summer of 2011, a woman who had befriended me

asked me if I wanted to go to her guy friends

from Miami's house in the Hamptons."

When we were in the car with Tal

driving to his house in the Hamptons,

something was brought up about Oren,

and, of course, my little, like, antenna was up,

and I said, "Oh, you know Oren?"

Because fairly recently prior, I had this awful incident.

I was sitting in the back seat, and Tal looked at me

in the rearview mirror and said, "I don't know who that is."

Tal explicitly said that, you know...

he didn't know Oren.

I knew Oren had a twin brother.

I had no idea he had another brother.

I found out later, after that weekend,

that Oren and Tal were brothers.

It seemed as though it was some sort of larger scheme,

whatever you want to call it.

So that added to the darkness of-- of it all.

"I had, like, half a glass of wine,

and I felt so disoriented.

My body was sort of becoming weaker.

I've never felt that way before,

and I've never felt that way again,

and the only way I sort of describe it

as if one of those flip books, you know, with pictures,

that sort of horse running or something.

But in this flip book,

there's just big missing pages out of it.

I was raped by two men."

I couldn't look at the twins,

but I did have this moment where

I had a good stare-down with Tal,

and we locked eye contact.

It was-- it was extremely intense.

And so many questions, like, were running through my mind.

It was like, why did you do this to me?

Like, what could possibly...

drive someone to do these type of things?

[intriguing music]

Read: Despite the mounting evidence...

the defense put all of its energy

into attacking the women's credibility

and essentially arguing that they shouldn't be believed.

They cross-examined all 11 of the women that testified.

Engelmayer: In many of the cases,

there's not a report to the police,

there's not a toxicology report.

All this came up years later.

Wall: The defense's position was that they're lying,

that they are after this for money.

Engelmayer: And there's no evidence that these boys

put anything in any of those drinks.

Small details maybe were found to be inconsistent

or difficult for them to explain.

They asked the women a lot about their, like,

pattern of drinking and drug use.

The defense was trying to make the point

that the details matter because it calls into question

how much they remember the entire night.

This was something the defense played on.

I get, like, a little bit of PTSD

from when I was, like...

cross-examined for so long.

It's entirely overwhelming.

I just wanted it to stop.

It was just--

it was brutal.

It was brutal.

I mean, I got down from there,

like, throwing up.

[exhales]

It felt like I totally...

failed.

Read: Even though the defense tried to tear down

the women's testimony,

prosecutors had one shocking piece of evidence:

this video that seemed to lay out

the brothers' strategy in black and white.

The video was described as Oren and another man in bed

with a woman who was 17 years old at the time.

Marx: You see Oren fumbling with the laptop

to make sure the angle is perfect to show this girl.

Wall: Oren moves her body.

She's not responsive.

Marx: He mounted her on a bed,

lifted her legs, and had sex with her.

And the court was silent for, I think,

seven minutes or so, the length of the video.

And you could see the reaction on the faces of the jurors.

Wall: There are videos leading up to that

that show Oren asking her earlier in the night,

"Did you take that pill?

You should really take that pill."

Prosecutors called the woman in the video.

She was emotional about how, you know,

it was, like, very scary to have hours of her life missing

and not know that that had happened.

And it was just so gross

when you heard the name of the video file,

the name he'd given to it.

It was "Miami Passover."

And that attempt to obfuscate...

there is some part of this entire world

where you realize that the brothers were conscious,

that even if they didn't feel they were doing something wrong,

there was a recognition that others might.

[gentle music]

Having watched weeks of testimony,

you have the opportunity for the prosecution and the defense

to sum up what they think the evidence shows.

One thing that the prosecutor,

delivering the final message to the jury,

mentioned that I thought was really powerful

was talking about this blog

written by the friends of the brothers.

And she kind of talked about it as their manifesto,

their creed, their worldview.

It was heavy and tense in the room

when these posts were being read.

This is the "About Me" section.

"It's not rape if...

the girl is wearing funny clothing.

If you leave your house dressed like a pirate hooker,

you will be treated like one."

"It's not rape if...

she's sleeping.

It's not rape if...

she doesn't remember."

Zettle: "It's not rape if you jerk it onto a bitch.

It's not rape if you use her tears as lube."

[chuckles]

What is wrong with these people? Okay.

"It's not rape if she secretly wants it."

"Vent on Bitches" is quite the blog.

There's, like, a whole archive.

"How they wake up."

"Imagine for a minute that last night,

you and your boys ran train and clowned on some hoes...

straight up mutted 'em out.

Maybe got it on video."

"Now, if you're us, you don't have to imagine.

But for the moment, just imagine."

"Now I want you to think about how we wake up

and how they wake up."

"They wake up feeling violated, used,

low self-esteem, the works."

[sniffles] "We wake up refreshed,

energized, confident, happy, content,

laughing all the way into the night.

Wash, rinse, repeat."

[somber music]

[exhales]

It's easier for me to see...

[sniffles]

...all of them as monsters.

As abusers.

As men who just hate women

for no reason other than to hate.

They need to be locked away, because I absolutely think that

they would continue to do this, if not even worse.

[tense music]

Jury deliberations begin

in the federal sex trafficking trial of the Alexander brothers.

Wall: The juries began deliberations

on Thursday afternoon.

They deliberated following Friday,

and then almost the whole day on Monday after that.

Acree: I think I just tried to prepare myself

that no matter what the-- the verdict was,

to be okay with whatever happened.

I cry at verdicts even if they're on television.

[laughs] Okay? So it's just

an emotional thing for me to begin with,

because it's about having vindication

or utter rejection.

Zettle: As we're waiting for the jury to reach a verdict,

oh, my gosh, so much anxiety.

I would spend five minutes outside the courthouse

and have extreme anxiety running through my system.

And I knew that, like, I need to be there for it.

Wall: Everyone got called back to the courtroom.

The defense attorneys, the prosecutors.

Oren, Alon, and Tal were brought back into the room,

and a woman who works for the judge came out

and said that the jury had reached a verdict.

Marx: As the 12 members of the jury

filed back into that courtroom,

totally silent,

I thought to myself, "These guys are in real trouble."

Zettle: In my notebook, I was making columns,

like, "Count 1, count 2."

I was writing "G" for every time that she said "guilty."

When the foreperson started going through the list...

The word you heard again and again and again...

was "guilty."

Wall: Guilty,

for every single defendant on every count.

Torgan: There was no equivocation,

and it was very, very fast.

Marx: Tal, the oldest of the three brothers,

put his head in his hands.

You saw Oren slump back into his chair.

The parents looked at one another in shock.

And I just, like, remember looking around,

like, "Am I dreaming?

Is this real?"

And Tal looked at me...

and he said, "Thanks a lot."

You wanna blame me?

You wanna say "Thanks a lot"?

"You can go fuck yourself,"

is what I would like to say back to him.

They escorted him and his brothers out,

and as soon as they were on the other side of the door,

you could hear them put the shackles on them.

And that's the last sound I ever heard of him.

[gentle music]

Acree: It's a hard feeling to describe.

I felt so relieved that doing the right thing paid off,

that it was worth it.

I hated that word, "victim."

It just, like-- Ugh. It still makes me kind of...

But I was, and that's okay.

Um...

but I'm not anymore.

And when you stand up for what happened,

it switches from me being a victim to, um, being...

a-- a fighter.

Reporter: Alon, Oren, and Tal Alexander

found guilty of all counts,

including sex trafficking.

They could face up to life in prison.

One would expect they will spend decades behind bars.

There are state charges that we know about.

There are dozens of civil lawsuits.

These men will be tied up in legal entanglements

for a long, long time to come.

Brian Meier: How did three kids get so fucked up?

I have no damn idea.

You know, I don't know what causes a weed.

I just like to pull 'em out.

Dr. Joni Johnston: These are not monsters.

These are people that were convicted

of doing monstrous things.

And I think that history tells us

that normal people

can and have done

monstrous things throughout history.

And oftentimes, all it takes is...

nobody calling them on it.

I don't think there's a simple, straightforward,

single explanation for it.

Upbringing. Family. South Florida.

Law enforcement not intervening at the right moment.

Women feeling frightened.

All these things come together

to make this behavior possible for so long.

Wall: Bad behavior exists in darkness,

and the more you expose it,

the more people are able to say, like,

"What happened to me wasn't right,

and I don't need to, like, hide it

and absorb the impact of it."

Hofeldt: A lot of women are silenced.

I wanted to share what had happened to me

because I don't want it to happen to anybody else.

M.S.: I want them to know that,

no matter how you violated me,

this is my body, I'm still in control of myself,

and you can't--

you can't change that, you can't take that away from me.

[car horns honking]

[solemn music]

Zettle: Every single breath that I take now

feels so big to me.

There's so much life.

Since the verdict was reached, I feel so much lighter.

I feel like I've shed a whole person.

[♪]

[birds chirping]

Acree: This has been hard, but it's been worth it...

every step of the way, and I really hope--

[tearful] I really hope that one day my daughter

will look back upon this and, um--

and know that I did it for her.

You got to stand up for yourself.

Don't let people take that away from you.