It turns out that Thomas Crooks was hardly an online ghost. He was active. And yet Federal investigators lied and told us there was no trace of [Thomas Crooks] online. Some of Crooks accounts, like his Snapchat appear to have been fully deactivated and completely taken out of use. Some of them may have been unused or cleared by federal officials during the investigation. (04:42)
CLAIM
Asserts that federal investigators falsely claimed there was no online trace of Thomas Crooks.
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