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[indistinct chatter]

[cheers and applause]

[Kool & the Gang's "Celebration"]

♪ ♪

- If we could have your attention

for just two minutes. PERSON: Uh-oh.

[indistinct chatter]

- We figured since Larry has now turned 40, you know...

PERSON: Madon', he's over the hill.

- Things--right. You go over the hill.

And, you know...

Larry and me, we were close friends.

We were best friends.

He was best man at my wedding.

The people that are in the room

are here for one reason,

because of Larry.

He's someone with integrity with honor...

[applause] - Um, with courage.

- I felt that Larry genuinely liked me

and considered me to be one of his best friends.

I would do anything for him.

He made me feel like he was a brother of mine.

I'm just proud that Larry's my friend.

I'm proud to be his friend.

And, uh, we look forward to, uh, doing this again

in another ten years for our 50ths.

PERSON 1: Yay! PERSON 2: Hear, hear.

[applause]

ALL: Larry! Larry! Larry!

PERSON: Whoo!

BERNIE: When I met Larry Ray,

he, uh, introduced himself as a business guy.

And I was the first deputy commissioner

in the New York City Department of Correction.

We talked five times a day.

Uh, I met him at the gym in the morning.

Want to go to dinner, he'd come in the city;

I'd go to New Jersey.

We were together all the time.

- Larry had significant business relationships.

BERNIE: You could tell he had money.

He had a nice house.

He seemed like a great father,

very attentive to his daughter.

Didn't want for nothing.

Uh, you know, was constantly traveling abroad.

- Larry would tell me he's going to Russia next week.

He'll be back, you know, in a few days.

He came off that he was successful and very smart.

- What I really want to say is thank you,

everybody, for being here.

It was a really nice surprise.

I had only half a clue.

[laughter]

BERNIE: I thought I knew everything about him,

about his family,

and come to realize in later years,

um, I knew nothing.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

One day, Larry calls me,

and he tells me that he's having a problem

and that the FBI wants to indict him.

They want to prosecute him.

I mean, he was going crazy.

He was, you know, "You got to help me."

- I was shocked.

He assured me that the charges were baseless

and that he was innocent.

- He wanted me to call the head of the FBI and talk to them.

And I said, "Dude, I'm not calling no head of the FBI.

Whatever it is, it is. You got to deal with it."

- The day after he was indicted,

newspaper reports came out

about him being involved with people from organized crime.

♪ ♪

It was devastating for him.

♪ ♪

BERNIE: His whole life fell apart.

[sirens wailing]

- He began to blame what was going on

on Bernie Kerik.

BERNIE: I just remember people telling me

that Larry Ray is publicly saying

I was hurting him in some way.

I have never hurt Larry, conspired against him.

FRANK: I just couldn't believe all the things

I was reading about it,

how there's a conspiracy against him,

including Vice President Cheney,

Bernie Kerik,

attorney general, Mayor Giuliani.

He sounded crazy.

- Everything that went south for him, he was a victim.

Never took responsibility for anything

that wasn't going right.

♪ ♪

LEE: When I first met Larry in prison,

he had been relating to me

various concerns he had about his daughters.

He felt that they were under constant danger

from Bernard Kerik.

LEE: And that was how he managed to get me

very dedicated to helping him.

After Lawrence Ray was released from prison,

I made him an offer

that he could stay on my living room couch.

He went from living on my living room couch

to taking over my one-bedroom apartment.

There were students in my living room

at all hours of the day and night,

sitting there attentively listening to Mr. Ray.

LEE: I began to spend more and more of my time

away from the apartment.

The less I was there, the less I had to deal with him.

But before I left, I asked him,

"Why are you wasting your precious time

with these students?"

In what I thought was an exceedingly candid moment,

he said to me, "You and I can only do so much.

But I'm building an army."

♪ ♪

[soft music]

♪ ♪

JULI: During that year,

occasionally I'd see Dan or Santos about.

I saw Claudia at the library occasionally.

And I don't know if I ever really saw Talia

or Isabella that year at all.

They were going to classes and things,

but they didn't have a social life on campus anymore.

They weren't going to parties.

They weren't really pursuing friendships

outside of their group.

♪ ♪

RAVEN: Every time I did see them walking around,

they would, like, cross the street to be away from me.

Like, they wouldn't look at me.

I didn't look at them after a little while.

We just kind of pretend--

pretended the others didn't exist.

They went from being my closest friends

to people I couldn't even make eye contact with

in passing anymore.

MAX: I miss being friends with them, honestly.

They were some of my closest friends for, you know,

a good two years there.

- They told me to come visit a couple times.

And I was like, "I'm not going anywhere near there."

I feared that danger was imminent.

I just didn't trust him at all.

SANTOS: According to Larry,

what was going on in the apartment was special

and people outside the group wouldn't understand it.

We're all getting better together.

We're all, like, forging ahead together.

It's me, Dan, Claudia,

Yalitza, Isabella, and Larry

all in that tiny apartment.

Talia and I broke up, and she was living on campus.

- Yeah.

SANTOS: He would have us record confessions.

Even though it's unusual,

he's been so helpful for us.

Like, I believed him when he said

that I did the wrong thing, so I was just like,

"All right, so what's the right thing?

And I'll do it."

- [crying] I don't know.

YALITZA: I remember people just standing

in the middle of the living room

crying for hours.

You're fucked up, and Larry's helping you.

And we can't leave because then we'll be lost forever.

SANTOS: When he was interrogating one of us,

he would say that we never forget.

We just don't want to remember.

SANTOS: He would say,

"Why are you breaking my stuff?

Why are you treating me this way?"

And it would be an interrogation on why.

DAN: I don't know how he arrived at,

"All of you have been conspiring

against me all along."

But, like, I can kind of see the logical leaps

where he's just like, "There's no reason

"for you all to be here.

"There's no reason for you all

"to keep destroying my things.

"So, like, why are you all destroying my things?

Why are you all sabotaging me?"

And it's not that far of a walk to, like,

"Did Kerik put you up to this?"

We would stay up in these interrogations

until, like, 3:00, 4:00 in the morning.

It's like, your willpower is gone.

We slept when he said to sleep.

And we ate only when he ate.

Getting me scared enough,

tired enough, and hungry enough,

I would just make something up.

The matter was never allowed to be settled.

Like, I'm looking for context clues

to try and figure out something that there isn't an answer to.

This whole convoluted conspiracy

started taking form.

I started to write memories.

[tense music]

[pencil scratching]

I ended up constructing a narrative

that would not get me yelled at

or would not get me hit.

By the end, the story was that Kerik

and a bunch of corrupt cops

had been talking to my parents

and paid them off to get me

and Claudia to sabotage Larry.

SANTOS: The goalposts always move.

And more things were added on as time went on.

DAN: He was recording you

because this was like his evidence.

And...

DAN: It was all about adding

credibility to his stories.

You are now making things right

by confessing on the record

ostensibly to send these recordings

to the authorities.

DAN: If you gave him what he wanted,

it might give you a little bit more status in the group,

which equated to safety.

I remember Isabella alongside Larry.

She was helping Larry by documenting things.

She was, like, close to an equal

or--so she was, like, respected, you know.

And by always positioning herself as supporting Larry,

she's, like, behind the line of fire.

He had saved her,

and so she was, like, devoted to him.

DAN: There was a confusing

blurring of lines between father-daughter

and boyfriend-girlfriend.

- She wanted to be his person.

And so when Felicia came into the picture,

Isabella was upset.

FELICIA: Hello.

It's my birthday today.

And look.

These are the flowers

that I got today from Honey Bunny Man.

[laughs]

They say, "All my love forever."

SANTOS: My sister Felicia is the oldest.

She got into Harvard from going

to JFK Public School in the Bronx...

And managed to get to Harvard--a full ride.

Then she got into Columbia Medical School--

a full ride as well.

YALITZA: So she's living in Los Angeles,

doing her residency in psychiatry.

And she comes to visit.

The four of us go have dinner together.

Felicia tells me later on

it was love at first sight for her.

And for him too--it was, like,

a mutual falling-in-love moment.

SANTOS: We all went back to the apartment.

She ended up talking to him late into the night.

She was studying to be a psychiatrist,

and this was a guy who could keep up with her

beat for beat on psychiatry.

YALITZA: When she went back to LA,

they maintained a long-distance relationship.

They're talking on the phone, like, every day.

- One day, all of a sudden, Larry is telling me,

"We gotta get your sister out of LA."

[tense music]

[line rings]

- He puts her on speaker,

and she sounds absolutely, like,

broken up and abs-- like, she sounded terrified.

- I was just confused as to, like, what is happening.

Like, what's going on over there?

FELICIA: [sobbing]

SANTOS: It was something about people were after her

and trying to hurt her.

It was unclear who they were.

But they wanted to hurt her because she was dating Larry.

- It was just like, all hands on deck.

Like, Felicia needs to get out of LA.

And then she's in New York City.

[sighs]

- Her whole life she's known what she wanted,

and she had a goal, and she went for it.

Like, what happened in LA that got her

to come to New York City all-- in an emergency situation?

- She was like a shadow of her normal self.

And now she's also saying it was Kerik.

[somber music]

MARITZA: [speaking Spanish]

- [speaking Spanish]

[horns honking]

- In general, everything was getting more and more chaotic.

I was so exhausted and emotionally drained.

There is a steady progression in my thinking of, like,

doubts coming in,

being less and less sure about what was going on.

DAN: I can't really make sense of this conspiracy

and who are these people

and why are they interested in Felicia.

I just didn't really get it.

Larry had a sense maybe that I doubted.

He kept saying to everyone,

"Danny doesn't believe.

Like, Danny doesn't fucking-- you know--won't listen."

- And then he'd be like, "You believe me now?

Like, are you embarrassed? Like, you feel bad?"

You know?

And I was getting more and more crushed

into a corner,

just a terrible situation that I was trapped in

that wouldn't end.

It felt almost impossible for me to leave

just because I was so dug in.

Like, I had, like, vouched for this guy

so much with my parents

and created distance between them

that at the time, I was like,

"I don't know if I can, like, fix that."

[wind chimes ringing]

CHARLES: I wrote an email.

Says, "Dan, why can't you return a call, text, or email?

"How long does it take?

"Something else must be going on.

"Help me understand.

"This only seems to happen when you are at Larry's.

"But I can't figure it out.

"Are you in a trance, drugs?

"Fathers worry. I worry.

"Someday you will understand.

"Know that I will always love you no matter what.

"I just want you to be the best you can be

"and a good man.

Love, Dad."

It's a good email.

- Good email.

- I think Larry was trying to shut down communications.

I didn't want to get it to a point

where I was making Dan choose sides.

I kind of felt like if we made a big issue about Larry,

it would just shut Dan off more.

YALITZA: When Dan was in the hot seat

that really, really bad night,

it was, like, so beyond

just, like, a "regular" interrogation.

[sighs]

DAN: [speaking indistinctly]

LARRY: [speaking indistinctly]

DAN: Uh-uh. LARRY: Huh?

LARRY: Huh? DAN: Uh-uh. Uh-uh.

DAN: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

DAN: [grunts]

LARRY: [sighs, grunts]

LARRY: [grunts]

DAN: [grunts]

DAN: Okay.

DAN: As punishment,

he made this rope

out of aluminum foil and plastic...

Had me, like, wrap it around my genitals.

And then he was twisting that to tighten that.

At this point, there's just, like, nothing left of me.

We're all just, like, doing this thing

that is never gonna end.

The moment I remember was this night

that somehow everyone was gone.

And in some ways, I wonder if, like,

that's all it took, 'cause I was just constantly

surrounded by people always,

and somehow there was this one night.

It just occurred to me to go up on the roof.

Then there's the water tower.

There wasn't anything else nearly as tall around,

so I climbed up...

Laid back on this roof.

I could literally just move, like, half an inch,

and I would just slide off of it.

[horns honking]

That would be the end.

Whatever this is, whatever is going on,

it's, like, not-- [sighs]

It doesn't make sense or feel good.

The whole thing was supposed to be about the truth.

And I wasn't being honest with myself.

Maybe he is a bad guy.

Like, I started to let myself think that.

I sat there for a while, looking at the city.

It was beautiful.

[siren wailing]

To me, it felt like I had gotten out

of the mental prison,

and all I wanted was to leave.

Really soon after, I took my stuff

and had no plans to come back ever to that apartment.

♪ ♪

Once I went to campus, it was just--I cut them off.

Signed up for an extra class.

I got a job, and then I got a second job

so that I could legitimately say I had no time, you know?

Just too busy to go back.

Larry calls, and I don't answer the phone.

And then every time after that,

I choose not to answer and to not call him,

to not go back.

[dogs barking]

I assumed that everyone else, at least Santos and Claudia,

would have left the way that I did.

But it just got worse.

♪ ♪

YALITZA: When Dan no longer was around,

Larry was like, "Dan gave up.

"He gave up on the path to success and happiness

and being a good person."

And that was, like, a dismissed, like, "Oh, yeah,

"we don't--we don't talk about Dan anymore

because he--he gave up."

- Man, I remember thinking like,

"Wow, he's--he's escaping."

Like, I vaguely thought that I was like,

"Man, I wish I could just leave,

"but I'm stuck now

because of all the stuff that I did."

♪ ♪

In the apartment, relationships kind of withered

where we didn't feel comfortable talking

to each other about stuff anymore.

By this point, what Larry said was always the truth.

You know, it was my word against his,

and who the fuck am I?

I just thought that I couldn't trust what I felt anymore.

Like-- LARRY: Okay.

- I was placed on medical leave from school.

[indistinct chatter]

I no longer had my friends to talk to

or my school.

And all that was left was Larry.

♪ ♪

[cheers and applause]

- To your parents, friends, relatives, and honored guests

who have joined us on this happy spring day

to celebrate one of life's great milestones,

I'm delighted to welcome you to the commencement

of the class of 2013.

[cheers and applause]

PERSON: Talia Lauren Ray.

[cheers and applause]

Isabella Constance Pollok.

[cheers and applause]

Daniel Barban Levin.

[cheers and applause]

RAVEN: You make so many good memories with people,

and you just kind of assume that you're

gonna keep having them.

♪ ♪

The last time I talked to Claudia

was on that booze cruise on the last day after graduation.

I had a little bit too much to drink

and was starting to get really riled up

and angry about those friendships.

And I could see them.

They were right there across the boat.

I went over there, and I was like, "Are you guys okay?

"Like, you know you're in a cult, right?

Like, you know is this so bad, right?"

I think I hit a breaking point.

Talia was laughing it off.

And Isabella was just, like, kind of uncomfortable.

Claudia was like, "Okay, Raven, like, get out of here."

I wasn't, like, mad.

I wasn't, like, yelling at them.

But I was, like, loudly, strongly pleading.

What if I never see them again and something bad happens?

♪ ♪

YALITZA: That summer, a bunch of us

ended up in Pinehurst, North Carolina, with Larry.

His stepdad owned a property down there.

Larry wanted to fix up the property

as a gift to his father.

[tense music]

There's, like, patchy grass.

♪ ♪

The backyard is, like, uneven mounds

and scrambled bits of trees.

YALITZA: It was, like, torrential rain that summer.

I didn't know what I was doing.

I was just following his lead.

YALITZA: Digging, shoveling, moving trees.

He put a lock on the fridge.

We weren't allowed to eat without his permission.

It was, like, bonkers.

It was just, like, impossible situation.

- The guy wouldn't sleep.

He was, like, on 100, 120 milligrams of Adderall

every day.

Like, he would pop all at once

in the morning.

[chain saw buzzing]

- I mean, it was worse when he wasn't on Adderall,

'cause then he was, like, a million miles a minute,

running roughshod over everyone and everything.

PERSON: Okay.

YALITZA: Just like purgatory.

There's no end in sight.

It's like torture.

And on top of that, my relationship with Felicia

was, like, breaking down, like, to a severe degree

because Felicia was breaking down

emotionally and mentally.

YALITZA: She's my older sister who has been

so capable my entire life.

I was tasked with babysitting her, essentially.

PERSON: Larry.

- But the same time, I was the one triggering her breakdowns.

I was blamed for her deterioration.

And then Larry's having health issues,

or at least it seems like he is.

And there's, like, no real explanation

for why his wound on his leg isn't healing.

So then it's like, who would do that?

Isabella is the one tending to his wound.

Felicia is a doctor. She's not gonna harm him.

So who would do that except me?

Except I don't remember doing it.

Larry's looking at me,

waiting for me to say something.

Isabella's looking at me like, "Bitch, say something."

I'm thinking that maybe I just forgot doing it

and therefore I'm a terrible person.

And then it comes up that I supposedly

poisoned Felicia in Los Angeles two years prior

and that explained--like, that was, like, an explanation

for her mental state.

As soon as I started confessing

that I poisoned her,

I remember her basically looking at me like,

"How can you do this to me?"

This is hell for me.

This is like-- this is like--

When is this gonna be over? There's, like, no--

I confessed to poisoning my sister.

Like, I confessed to, like, hurting people.

Like, what--what--what's--

like, what's after this, you know?

[sniffles]

How am I supposed to repay someone's, like, life?

Like, that--that amount is, like--

there's no amount to that.

I can't make a list of, like, a--[sighs]

You know?

[somber music]

It was just torture to be there.

One night, I sneak out to the front

where our work shoes are.

I slip mine on

and then walk out off the property...

Through the neighborhood, and out into the highway.

♪ ♪

I find a trail next to the highway

that's hidden by the trees,

just make my way down until that ran out.

♪ ♪

And I run across the highway...

♪ ♪

To, like, hide from the potential search party.

♪ ♪

Night sky was clear.

You know, I could see, like, all the stars.

It was kind of peaceful, you know?

'Cause I was away from that house.

♪ ♪

I took the 9:00 p.m. train to New York City.

♪ ♪

After I get back to New York,

I had to live in supportive housing

and, like, figure out a way to move forward

without my siblings and without my family.

I didn't feel comfortable reaching out to them again.

So I had to kind of, like...

try to figure out how to live a new life.

[sniffles]

♪ ♪

SANTOS: For several years,

there was no sense of time.

All the days bled into each other.

- Yeah.

- Felicia was not a functional human.

He was using us against each other to, like,

erode any sense of trust.

- Oh, my God!

- Stop making noise, Felicia. Stop making noise.

- Yes!

- [coughs]

♪ ♪

There was moments where things got too much...

I would be like, "I have to leave.

"But I shouldn't leave.

"I have to leave. But I shouldn't leave.

I'll hate myself if I leave."

But then this one day,

I literally walked out with the clothes on my back.

♪ ♪

I was a few blocks away, and Felicia called me,

and I was like, "I'm leaving."

And she was, like, crying, saying,

"Larry is gonna be so mad at me for letting you leave."

And I was just like, "I just can't do it."

♪ ♪

RAVEN: We all missed out on getting to have

the joy of progressing together,

growing up seeing each other.

I was excited to watch their lives unfold

and to see who we grew up to be.

It should have been heartbreaks and breakups

and a bad first job and a kind of good second job.

♪ ♪

MAX: For years, we would tell the story,

"Oh, our friends joined a cult."

I think we still thought at that time,

like, "Oh, they're all living together, and it's weird."

It was a lot darker than we ever knew.

♪ ♪

RAVEN: News of the ClaudiaDrury.com website

started to circulate among the Sarah Lawrence community.

MAX: I was worried for a while that Santos was dead.

Very worried about him.

RAVEN: I started getting texts from all kinds of people.

She had written down that she had poisoned me

and a bunch of other of our friends and peers

at Sarah Lawrence.

A lot of other Sarah Lawrence alumni from the same year

were worried they were poisoned.

PERSON: For a second, I was like, "Is it possible

that she was poisoning us?"

And then I was like, "Wait, there's no way

"that she was poisoning the entire house,

or we'd all be dead or very sick."

MAX: And then when I watched that video,

that was incredibly disturbing.

MAX: My first reaction to this was just

complete confusion, shock.

I didn't know whether to believe it.

- It was not at all like the Claudia I knew.

- That's not her personality. It's not her body language.

- To just see her, like, in that...

I don't know, subservient state

is just infuriating.

JULI: Between Larry's aggressive prompting

and literally ordering her around...

- I don't know how anyone can see that video

and not think there's something very wrong going on here.

- That's when I wanted to find out, where was she?

That became our big thing.

Where is she physically?

I'm just looking for clues.

I found a phone number listed on there.

I'm not gonna call it.

But maybe if I google it, an address will come up.

What I got was a Twitter account.

And on that Twitter, there was a link to an escort page

with prices and photos of her.

It was clearly Claudia, but she had lost

a scary amount of weight.

I wanted to see her get out of that situation

as soon as possible,

and I wanted to do whatever I could to help that happen.

Maybe we call the number and Max goes to the hotel room

to try to meet her and then takes her.

Uh, we talked about a lot of different scenarios.

- Ultimately what I decided on was to, you know,

go to the authorities.

So I got connected to a detective

specializing in sex trafficking

at the Department of Homeland Security,

told the whole story of how Larry came to visit,

everything up till this video that we think

he's coercing Claudia,

maybe the others into prostitution.

They didn't know what to make of the case,

but they basically laughed it out of the room.

- It's too crazy.

I think that's what Larry had best going for him.

It was so crazy that no one would believe it.

When we--anyone who talks about it, you seem insane.

You seem like you're a conspiracy theorist.

We decided that since the law wasn't gonna do anything

about it, the next best thing to do

was tell another alumni, Ezra.

EZRA: By that time, I was a freelance reporter.

This seemed potentially like it could be a story.

There was so much to dig into.

I had been talking to New York Magazine about it.

That's when they added James on the project.

JAMES: The second you log on to the website,

you immediately get a sense that something is amiss.

JAMES: Who is this man

on the other side of that camera?

EZRA: We discovered that Larry's original last name

was not Ray.

It was Grecco.

JAMES: He changed his name to take on this new identity.

One of the core details from his autobiography

is that he was in the marines.

We of course called up the marines.

They said, "Nope, we have no record of him

ever working for the marines."

EZRA: He really did know a lot of important people.

But at the same time, he had a capacity

to expand on the things he really did

into the realm of fantasy.

JAMES: During our reporting, we got ahold

of this psychological evaluation of Larry

that he underwent during his custody battle.

"It is literally impossible to evaluate Mr. Ray

"in the usual clinical manner.

"He's able to manipulate and control

"almost any situation in which he finds himself.

He is calculating, manipulative, and hostile."

Everybody in his life is like a player in this game.

He needs an audience.

It's one of the reasons he talked to me.

EZRA: He was willing to talk about Claudia

through the prism of the conspiracy against him

and the poisoning.

EZRA: I was completely shocked when he

spelled that out so clearly.

Claudia was an escort.

JAMES: We had no idea how much money she was giving him.

Any number that we would have come up with

would not have been anywhere near as much

as she was actually giving.

♪ ♪

My jaw hit the floor when we saw

that she was giving him millions of dollars.

EZRA: In his mind, she owed him money

as a result of poisoning.

JAMES: There was no conclusive evidence of poisoning.

The whole thing was a delusion to control these kids.

Larry's endgame was to keep the conspiracy alive.

What is most consequential was that he

was able to steal, collectively,

decades of lives from these promising young kids.

♪ ♪

REPORTER: What happened to the group

of bright college students who fell under the sway

of a classmate's father?

The piece is a cover story for New York Magazine.

It is staggering.

SANTOS: When the news articles started coming out

about what he had done

and what he had done to the others in the group,

I remember hanging on to the facade

of who Larry was by, like--

by a hair.

[siren wailing]

When the government wanted to talk to me,

initially, I was defending Larry.

And I go to their office, and they're just like,

"Hey, we just want to play a portion

of a recording for you."

[hammer thuds]

- I sounded absolutely terrified.

And Larry sounded absolutely, like...

drunk on power and, like, violence.

I then went over every memory I had with him,

and I was like, "Holy cow, I was in a fricking cult."

♪ ♪

It felt like I was a ghost moving through the world...

Like everybody else was three-dimensional

and I was two-dimensional.

♪ ♪

All of my bridges were burned with my friends.

My family, it was a twisted knot of,

like, lies and misery surrounding it.

Yeah, I need to basically figure out...

How to live...

in general, you know?

♪ ♪

DAN: After the article was published,

Claudia called me.

And for the first time in years,

after so long of being alone with this,

suddenly I was on the phone with someone else

who could validate my experience.

PERSON: How did that feel?

- It made me feel sane again, human again.

You know, this happened. It did happen.

RAVEN: It was still pretty raw when we talked.

She really thought she poisoned people.

And she couldn't find reality.

She couldn't get back to it.

She said when she saw the article,

just seeing it written down, she had a wake-up.

I think when she got the feeling like,

"This isn't real,"

she acted on it really swiftly.

And she just left as soon as she could

so she wouldn't have time to change her mind and stay.

- In retrospect, all of the red flags

that I ignored at the time became abundantly clear.

And...

how could I-- how could I have

just ignored them at the time?

- They went to college on the assumption

that they would, you know, go through a process

of self-improvement, um, and instead

had their lives ripped apart.

- I wish I would have found a way

just to get Larry kicked out

of the dorms in the first week.

Like, "Someone get this adult out of here.

This is a college campus."

But I realize now I-I couldn't compete with Larry.

He was a better mind changer than me.

♪ ♪

YALITZA: I can't talk to my parents.

I can't reach out to them,

'cause there's a lot of stuff that I still

haven't processed.

I can't talk to Santos.

It was too painful.

I just--I can't.

And, like, my sisterhood with Felicia fell apart.

Like, I don't know if her mind is, like, mended.

He broke apart my whole family.

He broke apart so many relationships,

like, but for what?

So trying to--trying to rebuild a life

without people that know who I really am is really hard.

♪ ♪

[siren wailing]

REPORTER: Tonight the FBI raiding

a quiet Middlesex County neighborhood,

arresting a man for sexually abusing

and exploiting college kids for nearly a decade.

PERSON: Today we announce criminal charges

against this man, Lawrence Ray.

Ray has been charged with nine counts,

including sex trafficking, extortion,

forced labor, and money laundering.

Ray was arrested this morning.

Two of the female victims in the indictment

were in the residence at the time.

[people clamoring]

[camera shutters clicking]

REPORTER: Do you have any comments?

Do you have any comments?

♪ ♪

ISABELLA: If Lawrence were here in front of me right now,

I would tell him how sorry I am that he's going through this

and that he's being put through this...

And that it's not fucking fair...

And tell him that no matter what

happens or doesn't happen, in no way

am I straying from the truth.

♪ ♪

Because I know what happened,

and I know he didn't do these things he's being accused of.

♪ ♪

PERSON: Okay.

Are you ready?