♪ this is "nightline." tonight, chaos in new york city. thousands of people swarm union square park after a social media influencer with 20 million followers announces a video game give-away. >> i had thousands of kids out there, i needed thousands of parents out there. >> the fallout.

plus, demons and saviors. she was known as the poltergeist girl. >> i felt validated because you can see my hands are not on the phone. >> a media sensation who claimed to have telekinetic powers, later convicted of killing her 3-year-old daughter, in prison maintaining her innocence. >> christina has that ability to come across one way, then behave completely differently in private. >> what happened to little amber? >> if you didn't kill her, who did? >> the law students and supporters search fog answers. barbie corps. >> hi, barbie! >> hi, ken! >> even before the blockbuster movie's release, pink was in, dominating fashion runways. even your own barbie dreamhouse. >> this is like a barbie superhome. >> fueling a movement. >> she does whatever she wants. that's what i want to do. (owner) purina one... we switched and wow!

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kysa net with 20 million followers on twitch promising fans free playstation 5 gaming systems, gift cards, and more at the city's union square park. >> we gonna go crazy for new york, man. nyc, let's go, man! >> phil: the twitch star streaming while mobbed by fans during the chaos. later leaving the scene with people desperately hanging on. dozens arrested and at least three officers injured. one 17-year-old was also reportedly hospitalized with a firework injury. now police say the man company could be facing charges including inciting a riot. the scene took more than two hours to get fully under control. >> phil: we turn to a true crime murder mystery. a young mother once known as the poltergeist girl convicted of killing her 3-year-old daughter. decades later she still denies

any involvement, but if christina boyer didn't do it, who did? here's. >> juju: chang. ♪ ♪ >> hello, this is a free call from christina boyer. >> juju: christina boyer is serving life in prison plus 20 years for the 1992 murder of her 3-year-old daughter, amber. it's a crime she says she did not commit, that she wasn't even there when it happened. did you kill your daughter? >> no. no, ma'am, i did not. i did not kill my daughter. >> juju: more than 30 years after amber's death, christina has amassed a global network of amateur detectives and dedicated law students convinced of her innocence. they call themselves team christina. >> we knocked on doors. we spoke with members of the community. we spoke with key witnesses. we spoke with the investigators.

>> juju: now demons and saviors, a new hulu series, seeks to unhearth what really happened. >> she might spend the rest of her life in prison because she's not going to admit she didn't do something they didn't do. >> hi! >> christina looks like this sweet, innocent little person that's been railroaded. but christina has that ability to come across one behave completely differently in private. >> juju: what was your childhood like? >> rough. >> juju: christina grew up in a home where she says she suffered emotional, physical, and sexual abuse at the hands of her adopted family. >> my brother started molesting me when i was 12 years old. i told my mother. my mother slapped me and told me that i was making up lies. he went on to go to prison for sex crimes. >> juju: in the midst of this, christina became swept up in a grange phenomenon. some claimed she had supernatural powers. >> things started happening in my home.

i went downstairs to watch cartoons. and the tv volume kept blaring, or changed the channels. from there, it went crazy. >> juju: her parents called an exorcist, then the local newspaper, whose photographer captured this infamous image appearing to move a phone with her mind. >> that first picture of the phone going across my lap, i felt validated. because you can plainly see my hands are not on the phone. >> they're here! >> in the mid-'80s, there were horror movies galore. the idea, there are witches. people who possess otherworldly powers. >> juju: christina became known as the poltergeist girl. and became a national media sensation.

but later at a press conference, christina was caught on camera pulling a lamp down. not moving it with her mind. >> all i wanted to do was have something to eat and go spent the night somewhere else. and i couldn't. until something happened. >> reporter: grace perret and lizzy porterfield learned about her in class, students at georgetown university. what do you make of the alleged telekinetic powers? >> this 14-year-old kid who's gone through trauma, suddenly all this attention on her. there's priests and recorders. she grabbed on to that. because what child wouldn't? >> juju: at 16, list christina ran away, bouncing from one bad relationship to another, eventually escaping an abusive husband and landed in carrollton, georgia. she says the only good thing to come out of that chapter was her daughter, amber. >> i was trying to be a good mom

for amber. the way i looked at it, anybody that i dated would have to be somebody that i considered a potential father figure for her. that's when i met david. >> juju: david herren was a local and a father himself. the two started dating. >> he came from a very good family. i could tell that he worked hard. he had a nice, muscular body. >> juju: april 14th, 1992, christina left amber with david for the afternoon. when she came back, her daughter was unresponsive. >> i was screaming at him to come on and drive me to the hospital. >> juju: doctors tried to save her but couldn't. >> i'm asking david what the [ bleep ] happened? why did she look like that? all he keeps saying is he's sorry, he's sorry. sorry for what? >> juju: the medical examiner said amber was a clear victim of

child abuse and declared her death a homicide. >> this is a mannequin that was used to help indicate where amber bennett's injuries were. this is a classic representation for a case of fatal child abuse. >> juju: christina was arrested along with david for amber's murder, even though christina wasn't home at the time. >> by the time they brought her to the hospital, she was at least brain dead, if not deceased by that point. scientifically, christina could not have inflicted that injury. >> juju: david suggested christina killed amber when he was being interrogated. >> well, it's christine. i mean, like i say -- >> juju: if you didn't kill her, who did? >> i have to assume that david did. she was alive when i left the house. she was dead when i returned home. he was the only one that was there.

>> juju: prosecutors building the case against christina interviewing witnesses who said the young mom had been violent. >> she had a short temper. she slapped her one time. >> even if all this stuff happened, hitting a child is bad, slapping a child is bad, all those things are bad. but it's not murder. >> you know, when people talk about team christina and all these people that go to bat for her, i don't know if they're misguided, but they certainly haven't bothered to open their mind to all the possibilities. >> juju: the hospital workers said they identified the bruises and the injuries on amber's body as a severe case of child abuse. what do you make of that? >> they were going to say a lot of things to make it look as sensational as they can. i'm not saying that amber's body was not bad, it was. but i'm being held responsible for something that i didn't do.

>> juju: amber's brutal death sending shockwaves through the small georgia town where she lived. >> because she wasn't from here, i think they quickly arrived at an opinion of her, and it wasn't good. >> she was this outsider who had a supposed paranormal past, was a single mom. >> juju: facing the death penalty at just 22 years old, christina took an alfred plea where she accepted a guilty charge but maintained her innocence. do you regret that decision? >> yes. because, quite frankly, i would rather be dead than to suffocate alive in here. >> the investigation into christina was more focused on the circumstances around christina and how she was as a mother, not about the actual facts of the case. >> juju: at trial david was

accused of abusing amber but not murder and was released after 15 years. >> wand is clear. amber suffered fatal injury. the only witness to the how and who of amber's death is david herren. >> juju: christina remains behind bars more than 30 years later. >> since she was convicted, she's been through nine parole denials. >> juju: grace and lizzy confronted the former prosecutor. >> i don't know what happened to that child in that house during that three or four-day period. i don't know. i do know they're both equally responsible. >> it doesn't feel like equal responsibility, though, if one person -- >> i understand what you're saying. >> there is a lot at stake in terms of who struck that fatal blow. >> in all probability, the one that was most physical with that child was probably christina. >> why is it not important to

know who struck that blow? >> because i'll never know that. >> i think the subtext is that you guys are naive, that she's manipulative and therefore you've been manipulated. >> give her an oscar. we've known her for four years, at this point. and she's maintained the same story for 32 years. >> phil: our thanks to juju. "demons and saviors" from abc news stus i don'ts and latchkey film is streaming now on hulu. up next, "barbie" is more than the summer's hottest movie, it's a lifestyle and a mood. hurry up dad! you've been in there forever! i'm trying! this cheap stuff is too thin! i told you not to get the other toilet paper. here's charmin ultra strong. ahhh! my bottom's been saved! woooo! with its diamond weave texture, charmin ultra strong cleans better with fewer sheets and less effort.

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>> phil: finally tonight, simone biles is back. >> hey, guys. welcome to our block. >> phil: she's set to hit the floor in chicago on saturday. her first competition since the 2021 tokyo olympics. the four-time gold medalist and newlywed dazzled and delighted a crowd during practice on friday. >> it's really inspiring that she's able to come back after everything that she's been through. i think all of us here look up to her. i was watching her and she looks amazing. it doesn't even look like she took a year off or any time off. how do you do that? >> phil: biles famously battled the twisties during is tokyo games, bowing out of several events. that's "nightline." you can watch all our full episodes on hulu. we'll see you right back here at the same time monday. thanks for staying up with us. good night, america.