The Cyberbully Who Spies on 1. Year- Old Girls in Their Home. On a Monday afternoon in late March, 1. Melody Coffey and Julia Young sat in Melody's room, mulling the latest message from their tormentor: wanna play a game ?

The girls recognized the sender's Instagram account as belonging to a girl we'll call Danielle. She and Julia were friends briefly earlier in the year. Since their falling out with Danielle, Melody and Julia had been receiving disturbing threats from her social media accounts. Let's switch passwords. The oddly punctuated messages had grown more sinister, more perverse. Though Danielle denied they were from her — she suggested her accounts were hacked — the evidence was not in her favor.

The attacks referenced the girls' families and their friends from school and even now, above the latest message, was a selfie of Danielle, phone held up to the mirror. I have a guy who takes photos of you guys . My mom helps me . Don't think I'm weird though .

Everyone does it . I know you guys will like call the cops because you guys are insane , but thats what I find sexy about you guys . In Melody's room, avoiding yet another day of gossip at school, the girls considered their options. Sometimes, Melody said, it seemed Danielle could hear them talking, as if she were watching them. She'd even convinced her mom to climb up and check the attic once. It was empty. Now Melody yelled for her mother to watch the new messages come in. There is someone in you're attic , he tells me everything .

The girls ran screaming from the room and hid under the kitchen counter. Could Danielle or her friend have heard them? Seen them? Julia replied from her phone with a test: What r we wearing? He's says you're not in melody's room … So you have to go in There for him to see you're shirts. The girls quietly walked back in. They circled the room, middle fingers raised to a camera they imagined hidden in the ceiling. The reply came before long: Julia's wearing a pink shirt and melody's wearing a white shirt .

And don't flip him off , it's rude. Image: Marti Coffey. This spring, Melody and Julia's story was big drama in the little world of Florence Stiles Middle School in Leander, Texas. Kids gossiped about the latest message from Danielle; Danielle insisted she wasn't behind it; school administrators met with police and held anti- bullying rallies. But by May, the case had outgrown their school, even their suburb.

The jealous spat among three girls progressed to cyberbullying and then, apparently, to hacking, online surveillance and real- world stalking. The families enlisted investigators from four law enforcement agencies, private eyes and experts in online security and forensics to make sense of the strange harassment, which seemed to turn every networked device in their homes against them.

After Julia's mother, a blogger with a devoted following, wrote about the ordeal, the case became a crusade among her flock. Anti- bullying activists championed the cause, calling it the worst case of cyberbullying they had ever seen. To others it seemed a blatant hoax, a bid for sympathy or attention too absurd to be believed. And by June, with no certain suspects or explanations, the threat was apparently over. The messages stopped, the clues dried up, the trail went cold. School staff and police seem baffled. The community, wrapped in forces they still don't understand, is left to wonder how 1.

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Twenty- five miles from downtown Austin, a world away from the capital city's food trucks, housing co- ops and all- night coffee shops, Leander sits at the northern edge of central Texas' urban sprawl. This is conservative Williamson County. Unforgiving cops patrol Ronald Reagan Boulevard; fresh Mc. Mansions fill neighborhoods named for prefabricated creeks and ranches.

A few traces of old Leander, hemmed- in pastures and old trailer parks, still fill the seams between the construction, but none shines as bright as the new mega Walmart. This is where Ray and Christine Young chose to settle with their seven children in the summer of 2. Texas was a cheaper headquarters than California for his public relations firm. When they moved, Christine Young wrote an influential blog called From Dates to Diapers; she reviewed products on contract with suppliers like Walmart, and meditated on the fun and trials of raising an enormous family. In 2. 00. 9, Nielsen Online ranked hers among the top 5. Their daughter, Julia Young, is the second- oldest of her siblings, and the only girl.

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Leaving her old friends behind in Sacramento, she entered sixth grade at Stiles Middle School, a new addition to Leander's fast- growing school system with an affluent, mostly white student body. By sixth grade, most kids had their own phones, and extracurricular life carried on late into the night on social media. New friends connected by swapping Instagram names first and phone numbers second. Julia, wide- eyed and talkative, thrived in the high- energy mix. A few months after getting her first i. Phone, she had 3,0.

Instagram followers and a boyfriend from class. Julia quickly fell in with Melody Coffey, a quieter, more serious girl who'd come to Stiles from private school. They both landed high in the school's social order, served well by their new- kid mystiques.

From left: Christine and Julia Young, and Marti and Melody Coffey, at the Youngs' home in Leander, Texas. Image: Mashable. Danielle, the girls say, was a "popular girl" of a different sort, outside the mainstream but more grown- up than the others, more familiar with the world outside school. She lived with her mother and stepdad, and sometimes stayed with her grandmother. She told some kids at school she was homeless.

In a school of 6. African- American students. She drifted from one group of friends to the next and had already cycled in and out of Julia and Melody's clique by February. Watch Bellflower Putlocker# there. The week after Valentine's Day, Julia received a Kik message from Danielle saying she was jealous of Julia's new boyfriend. In P. E. the next day, Julia says Danielle threatened to kill herself, and repeated it that night on Kik. The messages continued on Instagram and Kik: sex- obsessed taunts with consistently bad punctuation. When Danielle told the school counselor that Julia and Melody were bullying her, Melody says, they defended themselves by producing Danielle's messages.

School officials declined to comment for this story, citing student privacy laws. Then, on Feb. 2. 3, a startling development: Melody's own Instagram account posted a photo with the caption, "You stole Julia from me ! UGH." Above sat a picture of the evil clown horror meme Jeff the Killer: a ghost- white face, beady black eyes and broad grin, with the words "GO TO SLEEP" in red. Melody showed the post to her mother, puzzled and afraid. Jeff the Killer's appearance marked the first time the girls say an attack came from their own accounts. Image: Marti Coffey. Melody's mother Marti was so shaken, she commented on the post: "I will be calling the police if you do not return the account back to Melody." Instead, all of Melody's photos were deleted from her account.

Only Jeff the Killer remained. The name on Danielle's Instagram account changed to "Julia and Melody Sucks." Instagram sent Melody an email to confirm that her username had been changed to "hackeddddddddddddddd______" and the email on her account changed to "danielle_has_hacked_youre_ass_bitch@gmail. Image: Marti Coffey. Julia and Melody's parents reported it all to the police, but soon realized investigators had little experience with or knowledge of the technology, much less enthusiasm for the case. The main thing we get is, ‘Oh, it's not a big deal. I'm dealing with a rape case,'" Julia's father Ray Young says.

Oh, what if it's her brothers, what if it's you guys, just some little prank.'" Neither the Leander Police Department nor the Williamson County Sheriff's Office would comment for this story; the cases remain open investigations.

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