"48 Hours: NCIS" sneak peek: Deadly Lies | Forensic Files

[Music] in this job we see a lot of good we see a lot of bad but this one always takes
you back to why why would something be so random and so devastating On January 2nd 2006 NCIS my office got a call from
the Navy Marine Intelligence training center that one of their Marines Justin Huff did not show up for roll call we
didn't have any idea he just disappeared off the face of the planet when they went in the barracks room it didn't
appear as though Justin had left permanently it's almost like he just stepped out for a minute the first time
I heard about it it was that he was UA UA is unauthorized absence things that every one of us looked at each other
we're like that doesn't make sense Justin Huff was a good person he was a decorated Marine he fought for this
country in two tours to Iraq I love you Becca a loving husband a soon-to-be father he would lay down his life for
anybody you don't even have to know the damn people and that's what just the type of person he was
we pulled surveillance video of the night before he went missing and we were able to see him leaving in the middle of
the night his dorm room and leaving the building to go out of view but the circumstance I started getting
more and more suspicious as every day went along someone called him in his dorm room and asked him to come out and
talk to him about a sexual assault and that person was portraying himself as an NCIS agent
our first investigative duty was to look into whether Justin Huff was under any type of NCIS investigation and we
quickly learned that he was not so we were wondering who this guy was that was posing as an NCIS agent and talking to
Justin early on in the investigation we had another name Cooper Jackson but we didn't know who he
was and we could not make any correlation between him and Justin because they did not know each other
Cooper Jackson was a good-looking young man kept himself in good shape worked out all the time he was intelligence
specialist in the Navy which you have to be pretty smart to do that very polite that was yes sir no sir I
mean just to meet him you wouldn't think anything out of the ordinary on paper Justin Huff and Cooper Jackson seemed
very similar both all-american boys one was a Marine one was in the Navy as the investigation continued there was a very
strange connection between Justin Huff and Cooper Jackson that we could have never predicted there was another
individual that came into the picture by the name of Samantha Samantha wasn't a real name
oh I saw the pictures of the young lady some of them she was in a devils outfit for Halloween you know some pictures
were naked she portrayed herself as a blond hair blue-eyed five feet gorgeous young lady
what Samantha was doing is what we now know as catfishing and it basically involves creating a persona that you're
not then Cooper became smitten with her they were romantically involved in a phone relationship but they had never
met didn't sound real the whole story on the face that's like movie TV stuff you
know it's I mean the whole thing started as a lie a lie just kept getting bigger
and bigger and bigger and I don't believe you know she knew what could have happened or what did happen we
could not find a correlation between Samantha and Justin and that's what we needed to investigate I think Samantha
was the catalyst for this whole tragedy but for her none of this would happen [Music]
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Brief Summary

The episode covers Marine Justin Huff's disappearance linked to catfishing and a false NCIS agent.

Key points

The Disappearance of Justin Huff. A decorated Marine goes missing under mysterious circumstances, leaving everyone puzzled.
The Catfishing Connection. An online persona named Samantha becomes a key figure in the investigation.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Why would something be so random and so devastating?

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