Police Wage Psychological Warfare Against Teenager | Forensic Files

And as they're uncovering all this and filing this, I mean, they found out other things as well, like the police
were basically waging psychological warfare on this kid. So, remember how I told you that um in the like first month
of the investigation, you know, the newspaper showing up every day? It's like, we've got our guy, we're honing
in. Turns out that was not real. The Fort Collins police was making a fake front page of the newspaper, just
one, putting it on the newspaper and delivering that newspaper to Tim's house. Literal fake news on his
doorstep. Mhm. And their whole theory about Mattress, right, is Tim's like so upset about his mother's death that it
caused all of this. So clearly they like know that he would be upset. They had like his mother's obituary reprinted
like over and over. They would cut it out, put it in envelopes, and then like leave those envelopes around for Tim to
find. And then when that didn't work in like the very like first early days or whatever, come the one-year anniversary
of Peggy's murder, they concocted this scheme. Some might call it an operation, I say no. It's a scheme. And a lot of
the paper trail of this has been lost along the way. Like so much in this case. But what is left behind is just
it's bizarre. So Fort Collins authorities basically reached out to the FBI around the one-year anniversary and
was like, "Hey, we feel like we have this guy. We can't prove that he's violent, but we feel like if we put him
in the right situation, we can push him to be and other people will see what we see.
But we're afraid that if we push him too far, like like he might kill someone again. So, we need you watching him, but
if it goes too far, you have to pretend like this didn't happen. We didn't do this. You didn't do this. Like, we all
had nothing to do with whatever it is he does. And the FBI is like, "Got it." And
they're like, "Yeah, but also if he does nothing and we look dumb, can't have that happen." Yeah. Like, pretend it
didn't happen. and they're like, "Got it." And obviously nothing happened. But it just shows you like the mind games
they were playing with this at the time kid child. Yes. So this request for a new trial gets filed. The DNA stuff gets
sent off and even now Tim is still not optimistic. Like everything that can go wrong for him has. Why would this be any
different? Even when everyone around him is telling him they think it will

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Brief Summary

The episode reveals police psychological tactics against Tim Mattress during his investigation and his ongoing struggle for justice.

Key points

Psychological Warfare Uncovered. The police waged psychological warfare on Tim, using fake news and his mother's obituary.
Bizarre Police Tactics. Fort Collins authorities created fake newspaper front pages to manipulate Tim's emotions.
FBI's Complicit Role. The FBI was asked to monitor Tim while the police manipulated the situation.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Literal fake news on his doorstep.

Describing the police's psychological tactics against Tim.

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