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♪ you're gonna save gonna save me gonna save me gonna save me tonight ♪ tonight on "nightline." revenge porn. is your ex-boyfriend posting compromising pictures of you online. it's become big business and until recently it's been totally legal. these women found out the hard way how one racy image can change their lives forever. but they are fighting back and now they have got the law on
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their side. >> can't be tamed? think again. a competition like no other. 120 days. 190 cowboys. and a million dollars at stake. how they're getting bang for their buck. and guilty. the 11th hour twisten a sensational trial. the 22-year-old who insisted she accidentally pushed her new husband off a cliff, now admits it was murder. so, why did she do it?
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risque shot of his former lover on line. and in an instant the deeply intimate becomes ruthlessly public. incredibly easy to do. shockingly common. so much so, it even has a name. revenge porn. for years, the victims have suffered helplessly. tonight the tables are turning and here is abc's neil c karlinsky. >> reporter: online bad news travels fast. when kayla found out a topless picture was showing up against her will all over the internet she was horrified. >> embarrassing to know they have seen the photo and they know what i look like topless. >> reporter: she says she was hacked. what she didn't know at the time sunny was just another in a long, embarrassed line of women who had fallen victim to something called revenge porn. generally when an ex-boyfriend send a nude pictures of an old girlfriend just to humiliate her. but in this case, they picked the wrong victim with the right
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mom. >> it was extremely difficult for my whole family. it wasn't just my daughter that was victimized it was the entire family. it impacts everybody in the victim's life. >> reporter: charlotte laws called erin brocovic of revenge porn. frustrated nobody was doing anything about the underground problem. she set out to track down more victims. after two years of pushing law makers, get a law on the books in california to crack down. >> the amendment will cover 100% of victims. any bed wody who distributes a , topless picture without the victim's consent would be illegal. >> reporter: law enforcement has taken notice. yougotposted.com, which critics claim specialized in revenge porn. tonight he is learning that revenge is a dish that sometimes is served in jail, facing 31
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felony counts of conspiracy, identity theft and extortion. he got himself into trouble not by humiliating people but by charging victims 250 and $350 to remove the images. using e-mails sent through a website, called change my reputation.com. court documents say he collected in excess of $10,000. money from often desperate victims. please help, i am scared for my life. wrote a victim police list as jane doe number 6. others have suffered the same humiliation from similar sites. >> i couldn't breathe. then i started crying. uncontrollably. because i felt really helpless. >> holly told "nightline" earlier this year she had no idea who posted a dozen topless photos of her on a site called texan.com. >> knowing some one could, with a:00 a click of a button take whatever information from you and share it is really
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troubling. >> reporter: the world of revenge porn, something known as involuntary porn is a strange one. as we found out when we met the man many kconsider the godfathe of revenge porn. hunter moore, claims he never hacked any one. his former website is any one up.com was designed for humiliation on a scale only the internet can offer. >> public humiliation. >> yeah. it is. >> you are fine with blasting it out and basically ruining in some cases other people? >> to me, i don't know these people. so it's -- it's kind of anonymous to me. i think the people submitting are the ones who should be -- feeling bad when they do click submit. >> reporter: you have no empathy? >> no. they're just characters in, avatars, icons on a screen. >> reporter: he boasted about the woman who came to the door looking for her own brand of revenge. >> i was walking out of my house
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one day. out of nowhere the girl we had posted, i had posted, she stuck me in the shoulder with a bik pen. this is the scar i have left. they had to surgically remove it. >> reporter: hunter moore is no longer in the revenge porn business his site like the others have had one more unintended shock wave. they mobilized a small army of angry women into action. holly has taken a page out of charlotte law's book and gone on to speak with lawmakers and work with victims. she believes the people who run the websites should share blame with their customers. >> they're just as to blame, you know, guilty. they should be held accountable because they're logging on, they're putting their credit card in, they're paying to see us exploited. and -- again, if they're -- itch there wasnitch -- if there wasn't those
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disgusting people paying, there wouldn't be a website. >> legislating revenge porn out of business is no small task. hunter moore left his site not because he was threatened or sued but because he was bought out by a man who bought it to be the good guy to shut it down as a sort of public service. but it also instantly gave him 2 million visitors for a new venture which by the way is closely tied to another revenge based website called cheaterville. >> there is just a full day of, of just alleged cheaters. >> reporter: website devoted to people posting about their spouses or partners cheating. >> reporter: did you shut it down for public good or because it is a website with of a huge built-in audience. there you go. launching a site. you got a lot of eyeballs. >> do you know what kind of base he has to subscribe, subscriber base he had. >> the same laws that allow youtube to host content, uploaded by individuals also protects some revenge porn.
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putting the liability fully on the person who uploads it. >> incredibly difficult for victims to find any remedy. really difficult to get any type of civil suits to be initiated against the perpetrators because that costs a lot of money. it often does bring more publicity to images themselves. >> there are hundreds of sites by one estimate. nearly 900. kate rg to what so catering to an uncomfortable amount of demand. when weep la last caught up wit hunter moore he thought using humiliation as a business model was a good idea. >> at some point when you get older you may look back at the person you are now and have regret. >> i'm going to grow and change as a person. right now at this time, i'm going to take full advantage of people's mistakes and what i have created. >> reporter: tonight as charlotte law celebrates the fact that moore states are cracking down on revenge porn, she knows technology is often one step ahead.
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and people everywhere love taking pictures of themselves and sharing them. >> the law has the not kept up with technology. that is for sure. it's true. there are so many pictures, on the internet. so much information out there. i don't think there is really a we to curb that. >> neil karlinsky in seattle. >> coming up. why did the newlywed push her husband off a cliff. a big new twist in a shocking case. plus the race is on, 120 days to turn this wild mustang into a tame show horse. with a million dollars up for grabs. can it be done? every day we're working to be an even better company -
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tonight we are going to take you inside an extraordinary competition, one that tests the limits of animals and humans. the rules are simple. adopt a wild horse and in four months make that horse te perfo. one with a million dollars up for grabs. as you are about to see some of the people involved in this contest are a bit on the wild side themselves. here's abc's juju chang. ♪ >> reporter: the final round of the mustang million competition and much more on the line than bragging rights. >> fort hood, texas are you ready to get it started on a saturday night. let's do it. >> reporter: at stake a million dollars in prize money. 190 cowboys and cowgirls from across the country compete in the fort worth, texas arena to show just how tame their once
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wild mustangs are now. but the real competition begins four months earlier. when these wild mustangs are auctioned with one goal. 120 days to turn them into winners. >> i'm looking for a nice fat ge lding. >> reporter: where we met bobby kerr, wife susan and daughter kelsey. >> you ready? >> i'm ready, you ready. >> let's go get mustangs. >> reporter: they adopt three wild horses to be trained and ready to compete. >> i am not even pulling on this horse. he is coming right around me. >> bobby won last year. his horse, poncho, transformed into a meek, charming side kick, performing in the back of a southern vintage car. >> we started it up and drove off with him sitting in there. that's what makes this show so unique. >> now bobby is trying to show he can do it again. four months off 'round-the-clock training to see if trigger has what it takes. >> i'm using this to build his
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confidence. on where to put his feet. >> turns out breaking a horse is not about brute force but gentle persuasi persuasion. and occasionally it is the horse that seems to tame the trainer. >> whoo-hoo. >> seemed to take that well. >> reporter: bobby's land is in foreclosure, the former trucker's business hurt by the bad economy. >> if it breaks and we make the finals. it ruins the routine. >> i understand that. >> little worried. >> last year you took the prize money. the prize money means a lot to you. >> yeah, yeah, a lot of people are here like me. but you know for the love of the mustang, and for the experience. this is how we make our living. it's, you know, a little over four months getting here. other than my sponsor money i haven't had no income. >> like betting the farm? >> yeah, yeah. it's a big bet. >> reporter: with a month to go before the competition it is clear bobby is still training a
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wild horse. trying hard to get trigger to follow directions. >> you know if this doesn't work, we are in a big bind. >> to win $200,000 of the million dollars in prize money. bobby feels he needs to pull out a show stopper. >> must be hard defending your title. >> this is my third one. you got to get pretty creative. >> trying to top yourself. >> trying to top myself. >> heap > adding to the pressur training a first time c competitor. his daughter, kelsey. >> a different horse, the first night he got here. >> how different. nervous wreck? >> yeah. >> were you a nervous wreck? >> reporter: before taking on the challenge. kelsey considered herself a party girl than a cowgirl. >> i want to school. i lack ike to party, go to the , sleep in. >> we brought a wild horse. pretty much a wild girl together. and -- they, both changed just
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incredibly. i mean they have done a total flip. both the horse and her. >> reporter: kelsey slopely trains her horse drifter to follow her every lead. the mustang millionaire, showcases the annual competition designed to to get more people to adopt wild horses. the will rodgers arena, a packed house, 5,000 people await the final showdown. it's competition day. kelsey doesn't qualify for the main event this year. but her father does. and it's now time to find out if this extreme mustang makeover worked. and bobby faces intense competition. as we get rolling into our top 20. our first competitor will be -- bobby kerr. >> i think a lot of people are, expecting, wondering, what i am going to dupe this year. i told him i came here for one
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show. >> the champ. re-created a scene from the movie tombstone. he built this giant water fall so his horse trigger would jump through it. and take the horse. a few months ago. train them. i mean that's quite an accomplishment. >> this is where 120 days were with of exercises designed to to build trust and keep the horses from being spooked will hopefully pay off. who is ready to find out how it shakes loose. >> we're done to the last three horses. you want them to be the last one picked of course. so it's quite a bit of suspense. >> and your third place individual, we congratulate, jingle bob, shown by bobby kerr. >> it's not to be.
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bobby suffers a stunning upset. >> i had good routines. happy with my horse. i was already happy. when they called me up for third. i was real happy. >> neither of his horses win. yet he managed to bring home, $160,000 in the prize money. the winning horse's journey started 3,000 miles away and is very different than that of bobby's. >> hard work. hard work. >> reporter: but the endless hours of training reaped a different kind of reward. >> he has always been my hero. >> you know, there is nothing better than getting approval from your family. you know? that's when you really feel like a winner. and if your kids think this is cool, that, that really makes it worthwhile. >> you got a little lump in your throat don't you? >> little bit. >> reporter: what explains that? >> i love my girl. i'm proud of her. >> reporter: for "nightline," juj u chang in fort worth, texas. >> great story. thank you to juju chang.
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for newlyweds jordan graham and cody johnson, happily ever after lasted only eight days. their marriage ended with johnson being pushed over the side of a cliff by his new bride. for the past four days she has been on trial for murder and all along her defense has been that this was simply an accident. tonight though, a major new development. here is abc's ryan owens. >> newlywed jordan graham didn't say a word during her murder trial. until today, when she said the one word that changed everything. guilty of second degree murder. and that was it. the bizarre end to a twisted
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