Wife Finds Husband Secretly Recording Their 12-Year-Old Daughter

In Jefferson County, Illinois, a tip about exploitation brings detective tighter to a residential driveway.What begins as a conversation with 36 year old Marcus Lava quickly reveals a dark secret hidden in his phone, one that involves his own family.Hey, what's up, man?

You doing OK?

Well, messed up thing because of OK, what happened to me?

And as I understand, you're kind of a victim in this.so i want to know why it's not i don't want to get it yelling on you you cannot have no i'm still passionate about it because because i'm completely on it uh... i brought up my pockets but i did i'm completely i'll i'm completely alone battery battery like this is okay i don't know about it no problem no problem okay so so here's the deal you're not under arrest you're not in trouble you don't have to talk to me i'm talking to you i would like to talk to you anyhow yeah we're we're talking like two grown men in your driveway because this is Poston what's your name brother Marcus Justin labor?

Okay, and there's this pause and I'm hi.

Hi, so I'm dropping line to the conversation Let's slow down let's just slow down matter of fact I'm gonna chill out for a second I drove pretty quick here.There's no reason for us to get excited or fired up.You're good.

I like to just get it out.

Take a deep breath.Okay, your name is Marcus Laver, right?How old are you, Marcus?

36.

You live here?Yeah.You live here your whole life?

Yeah, I grew up here.I was adopted by my parents.This is all I know.What do you do for a living, big dog?Now I work where I make paint.Oh, well, no kidding, right?

TVB.I was at Walgreens.I like to battle, but...

So let's get this out in the open.I like to start out by laying everything on the table.I'm a detective.I'm a forensic mobile analyst.And I don't know if you know what that is.

No idea.

I take cellular data.and tablets and all manner of electronics and I forensically exploit them for their software.I can find deleted images, deleted videos, deleted text messages, deleted everything that's on your phone.You seem really smart.Everything that's on your phone, even if it's been deleted for probably about six months, I can get it.From what I understand, I know that there is some would've images and videos of your daughter on your phone.

I can tell you exactly what it is, because I have no reason to lie about it.

I haven't even told her the same thing.Okay, so what kind of videos have you been taking?

Well, the video did not go through, thank God.Okay, but you took the video.What kind of video was it?Just her lying down with her legs open.That was it.Naked?

It was not white, yes.Naked, it wasn't white.

And you took the video of this?

I did, but it didn't go through.So hold on, hold on, hold on.

And you were going to send the video, right?

Yeah, to a man that was blackmailing me with stuff.

OK, well, we'll get into that.We'll get into that.And everything's fine.I want you to stay calm.Just deep, deep breaths, OK?Just relax, brother.

We don't need to get fired up.I know.You're not under arrest.You don't have to talk to me.You know your rights.Even though you're not under arrest, I want you to be well on your rights.

I know.Here's the deal.

When I leave here, you have the right to resign.Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.You have the right to turn in.If you cannot afford an attorney, we'll be appointed to represent you for your charge of coercion.Any time you exercise your rights, have your attorney present, not make any statements, don't have to talk to me.But, I think you know that I'm probably, if I need to, I can get a search warrant for your phone, I can get all the videos and stuff, so it's probably just better we get it on the open.

If I don't have any reason to hide, I'll lie to anyone.I'm not.Okay.I've seen a lot.I'm not.Okay.

Alright.Hi bud.So, here's the deal.Let's move back by my car because my portable's not going to work out here, and if they radio me, I won't be able toanswer something else and cool.You know the Marines Yes going on the front of my car man over on this side big dog all right big dog So you took the video how long ago did you take the video?

Yeah?I know that Five days ago so so hold on five days ago right possibly possibly five within the last What do you say?We can.And you had intentions of sending this video to a man named...

I don't know his real name.He goes by Timmy Tams on Facebook.That's not his real alias.I don't know who this guy is.

Well, we can get into that, and we're going to get into that.Yes.But first of all, I want to get everything out in the open before we start talking about Timmy Tams and all this blackmail mess.

I understand.

How many videos do you think you've taken of your daughter?That was it.How many pictures have you taken of your daughter?

That was it.

Hold on, I got it.Okay, Shauna, I got it.Marcus, look at me, look at me, look at me.So whenever I do the forensic analyzation on your phone, I'm going to be able to find stuff that's been, you thought was on deleted.And then I'm also going to get a search warrant for your Facebook messenger, because that's the way you were sending it.So it's better if we're going to be cooperative, let's be fully cooperative with each other.

And like I said, so I know that this isn't the first time.

Okay.

And I know this because I've worked a million of these cases and I know that I can tell by talking to you that maybe you have a little bit of propensity for this and we know, Hey, this stuff happens sometimes.We can't help what we like.Can we?Yeah, yeah, yeah.We can't help what we like.And I can tell from talking to you that you've done this before and that's okay, but we got to be honest with each other.

Okay.So how many times do you think you've done this?Hon, could you give us a second?

Yeah.Yeah.I'm sorry.This is just between us guys.

Okay.

When I find out someone else is interested in my oldest autopilot, his name is Zack Taylor.

Marcus asks a nearby woman, possibly family for privacy.He brings up Zach, someone who had shown interest in his oldest daughter, claiming it pushed him to confront his own issues.This is where the blackmail story with Timmy Tams on Messenger comes in.

I, it made me want to just stop because I did have an issue at one point and I told myself, I don't want this anymore in my life.Yeah.I don't want this anymore in my life.

Can I see?

So, of course, I won't even show you the password and everything.Will you show me the videos?It won't even show.Okay, what did you send the video on?It won't even show up because...You deleted it.

No, no.I, this guy that I was talking to, right?Okay, so what did you do?I straight up told him I was on Facebook and it did not go through.Okay.You took the video.

What did you take the video on?

Facebook.message you took the video on facebook message and it didn't go through it had a yellow limbo and some glad that you were doing a live video no no not live video just a like taking pictures so show me the chat whenever i got involved with him i i want to get rid of it i want to get rid of him and he erased his facebook of course he did okay so he erased his face so because i took here's why i told him this morning i don't want you out of my life i don't want you to talk to me ever again because you've hurt my family you know what i'm saying you know what i mean you've hurt my family I put my daughter at risk because if you leave me alone, I don't want this in my life anymore.And that was straight up honest.You know, man?Straight up honest.I feel you, dude.

Because, hey, what happens is how this started was, he got pisses of Jonna.sent it to me, it says, I know where your wife is, I know what she's doing.And it freaked me out.He goes, I will tell your wife if you don't do what I say.And I'm like, it freaked me out.

So all right, let's go back to this.I'm going to set this down here.That's how this started.So how many, so I can tell.

Now, when it comes to, you asked me about the CPR.Hold on, listen to me.

just for a second.I can tell from talking to you that you kind of have a propensity for these things.And I told you, I'm not judging you.I'm not judging you.I'm not judging you.I would love to get your help, but you've got to help me help you.

And the way you help me help you is you disclose this, this thing that's tearing you up inside, isn't it?Yes.You can't help that you like these things, right?I don't know how it started.Well, let's go all the way back.Slow down.

You're talking too fast.You're going way too fast.So within the last 14 days, again, on Facebook Messenger.

Yeah.

You took a video of your daughter, and you were going to send it to Timmy Tams.

Yes.

But you couldn't get it to send, right?

No, and I didn't try after that.

And the reason why you were going to take it to Timmy Tams, were you guys sharing files back and forth?Because I know this is how this works.I know that guys that are typically into this, they kind of find each other.

He got me into this, and I don't know how it happened.

So how did he get you into this?

He sent me some stuff at first, and then I was like, uh, you know?I was like, no.Yeah.He sent me a picture at first, and then...

Facebook, yeah.

And first I said...I can't remember.I know it was... underage.No, I can tell you it was underage.I know that blonde hair.And I was like, uh, no, I don't...

And I listened.I told him, I'm not interested in that.

You like what you like and we can't help that.Right.So, like I said.

Well, at first, at first I didn't.At first.Right.But I understand.That's why I want help with it now.

So, let me ask you something.When you see these images and videos and depictions of this stuff, does it get you aroused?No.

And actually.How does it make you feel?

How does it make you feel?

I also, honest answer.

Yeah.

Honestly, I first wanted to find people to put it up and get rid of them.Okay.Well, then what happened?after that?Get rid of the stuff.

Yeah.But what happened after that?You started to like it a little bit?

I don't know.He started talking to me and asking me if I could save stuff.I'm like, why?And then he started the whole...

You've got to understand, I do this a lot, buddy.I'm really good.I'm really decent at this.I'm not bad at it.And I talk to a lot of decent people like you that have a problem.You just have a problem.

But what you're saying, you're jumbling everything up and you're not making sense.And that's what happens when you're, that's what happens when you're, what we like to call in this business, minimizing.What you're doing is you're minimizing the involvement that you have.You're minimizing the feelings you have for these pictures and videos.I don't want you to do that.I just want you to be honest with me because honesty, I think you're a good guy, but you gotta be honest with me.

You want help.I can get you help, but we gotta be honest because we don't want help if we're minimizing.We just don't want to get in trouble.If you want help, just be real with me, brother.

Yes.

How many of these videos and pictures have you taken?Rough estimate.

Taken pictures?

Yeah.

Myself, like, taking a photo.

Of your kids?

That's just what you know.

Okay.So the video you took approximately seven days ago.

Yes.

Of your daughter's video.

Yes.

And tried to send to Timmy Tams on Messenger, right?Yes.That's the only one?

Yes.All right.That's the only one.Okay.It is. I swear.

So you say that these guys have been trying to get you into this for a long time, but that leads me to believe that you've been kind of dabbling.You've been dabbling with this for a while?

Unfortunately, yes, because I...

You've been tiptoeing that line, ain't you?

I got addicted to it somehow, and I couldn't get out of it.

Addicted to child porn.

And then I would play a lot.Hold on.

Slow, slow, slow, slow.Slow.You're going way too fast, buddy.Sorry.You're going way too fast.Sorry.

So you got addicted to looking at lewd and lucidius underage yes females or males you like you like girls or boys just girls okay hey hey wait what age what age you like be real with me dog on the same thing

adults.But that ain't the honest answer.No, I'm serious.So do you like, do you like...Now that stuff, ever since they like...Okay, hold on, hold on.

Okay.No, no, no.Listen.I don't know if I should call it a kink.Oh, I don't know what you're calling it.

You're bullshitting me.And I don't want you to bullshit me. I'm not trying to bullshit.I want you to be real.Because you wouldn't be taking pictures of your daughters and videos of your daughters if you weren't sexually stimulated by this type of material.And that's okay.I do this for...

Hey, look at me.Look at me in my eyes.

Yeah.

I know this because I've talked to people like you a lot.

This isn't your fault.Question, how many of them actually make it out of this with help?Quite a bit.None of them.This isn't Nazi Germany, dude.I know.

I'm just saying it makes me feel better to know that people can recover.Titor challenges Marcus on minimizing things, but you can hear the emotional weight in his voice.He's talking about an addiction that started years ago, and now it's tearing his family apart right in his own driveway.

Can I take your phone?Yes.So I have permission to take your phone and do a forensic audit and dump of your phone.

I'd have to let my mother know if that's okay with you, because that's my way of contacting my mom.

That's okay.So I'm going to put this in here since I have consent.What's your Pesco, big dog?Oh shit, you have one of those, don't you?

Oh my God.

That's it.

If you want a paddle, I can make a paddle level.

Can we change that?Can we change that to just a box?Because I'm never going to remember that.

I don't remember how to change that.I bet I do.

So I'm going to put this in the vehicle.All right.What I want you to do is slow down because you're still talking really fast.You're not making a lot of sense.So you tell me the only, the only lucidius video of your kids that you took was about seven days ago when you took a video of your daughter naked and you took that with the intent to send that to a guy named Timmy Tams.Timmy Tams, you were going to send it to him on,

messenger, right?So you took the video on regular messenger, and you were going to send it, but it didn't send.Correct.

And I'm happy that I didn't even try after that.Well, I get it.So now here we go.

And this sucks, because you like these photos, right?And videos.

Yeah.

You're being honest with me.Well, yeah.

You ain't got to hide that from me. I'm not judging you.I don't want to like him, I'll tell you that.

So, you say you like these videos and pictures, which means that you've viewed several of these videos and pictures before, correct?

Well, it's been sent to me, yes.Okay, understood.

And it was by that man.And it was sent to you by Timmy Tams, and it was sent to you how?

Messenger.

Facebook Messenger.Yes.How many...And then...Hold on, hold on, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.How many of these videos and photos did Timmy Tams send to you on Messenger?

Within the past six months.Give me a rough estimate.

Maybe five?

Four or five?Four or five?Were they all underage?10.How old do you think?

10 to 14.

10 to 14?Did you talk to Timmy Tams?Did you have any dialogue with him?

I've never heard his voice.You talked to him on messenger.I cannot identify his voice.He's only just texted me.

How do you know that it's an FBI agent you're messing with, man?You're playing with fire, big dog.It isn't.

I know.Oh, I know.

Because an FBI agent wouldn't ask you to send naked photos and videos of your daughter.Um, but so you, you say five videos or photos, photos, photos.Okay.

That's just an estimate.I'm not, could it be more?Is it more?I don't say no.

Okay.So five, so no less than five probably.I possibly, and these girls are 10 to 15 years, 10 to 15 years old.And what kind of, what kind of stuff are they usually doing?Just standing there, standing there, just stand down there and they take the photos themselves.

Probably what it looks like.

Yeah.I would honestly never touch a child in that way.

I would gladly hook up a lie detector and ask me if I would.I would not.I would never admit to my own kids.

I feel like that.that has a propensity and a liking to stuff you shouldn't look at.Yes.You feel bad about it.You're about to cry right now, aren't you?

I am holding back a lot to be honest with you.I can tell.Even before all this.

And I can tell that.It's been a while.And this is emotional, okay?So you're not a monster.Did you guys discuss the photos?Did you, how did, how did, did he just start sending them to you out of the blue?

He just sent them and asked me if I liked it, if I thought of it.And what'd you tell him?And I said no.Be honest.I said no.

But did you?

I said no.I told him to stop.

All right, and then he think about hold on think about what we had just talked about before when you said that you were aroused by so you can you can be honest.

I remember saying that to be honest.You are I don't remember I said that was so you did my apologies.Okay, but then yes, but let's be honest.Sorry.

Do you get aroused?When you get done viewing these photos deep very little.

Okay.

Well, typically what happens stop me when I'm wrong.Typically what happens is You like this stuff and it gets you aroused.So rather than doing things you shouldn't do, you look at the photos and that usually keeps you from doing anything you shouldn't do, right?Okay, I know that because like I said, I've worked a lot of these cases.So has anybody other than Timmy Tams offered or sent you anything?

No.

Is Timmy Tams Zach Terry?

No, because he's in prison.

So what did Zach Terry send you?

He never sent me anything.I found out he had stuff because he was interested in Violet, which is my oldest daughter.Yeah.How old is your oldest daughter?

I felt nine.How did you know he was interested in Violet?

Just, there was a vibe.There was something about him that was off.

Yeah.

And how he'd look at him, and I'm like, because he wants that squeak, and I take Violet to the movies, and I told him, no.He said no, he wanted to go by himself with just Ho and not the month.

Let me go back for just a second.Did you delete those videos from your phone?Because I didn't want them anymore.You didn't want them?So you deleted them?

It wasn't because of anything today.

Hold on, brother.Bro, you're going too fast.I'm sorry.I didn't ask you all that.

I know.

So did you delete the videos and pictures off of your phone?And how long ago did you do that?

I did.How long ago did you do that?

Rough estimate.

Because I know you just got caught within the last seven days by your wife.

So was it within the last seven days?

Which is that photo?Yes.But the other ones?

It's been a while.

I estimate the time.I can't give because I'm not sure.But it's been a while.Now, on my galleries that I had, because I like hidden galleries, I opened all that and I forgot that was on there.

So it's still on there, isn't it?

And I told myself, because I just fell inside.Hold on, hold on.

So you have hidden galleries?So it is.Slow, slow.You have hidden galleries on your phone?Yes.Is the data still there?

I opened them up.So when you can recover with the deleted stuff.

Let's try to do that.

Let's try to do that.Things get even more personal as Marcus points out chats involving his wife, Jonna, and home security footage.Titor stays composed, digging deeper while Marcus tries to explain deleting files.just before police arrive.

Those are cameras in my house.

I catch stuff sometimes.Do they have pictures they shouldn't have on them?

No, no, no, no.Now I have a couple of men who have sex with me and my wife.Did she know about it?I told her, I told her.Did you ever send those pictures out?No, no.

He did try to get me to send some photos of her once though.I won't lie, I did.I feel bad about that.I should not have done that, I know.But I did send him some stuff of Donna.

Of the girl?

Of my wife.

Your wife?So you sent Timmy Tams and stuff of your wife?I hate to say it.Okay.Okay, so everything that you think you had you thought you deleted today, right?That's okay Can I ask you a very personal question?

Yeah, yeah, this is gonna be really hard to answer, but I really want you to be honest Like I said the Lord I'm a bit honest after you took that video Did you did you have to take care of business because you're well?You didn't how long did how long did it take you to have to do that after you took it to do what?

Hell no.

Not my own kid, hell no.Because of what he said to me.Because he...

he's gotta be honest.I am no no How many times do you think you sent pictures of your kids just that just that yes, and then he set five full frontal nudity?10 to 15 years old something like that and they're all nude full frontal nudity were they doing anything with their selves or they playing with their selves But you did get aroused and masturbate after that right Maybe once.And that's honest.

So how long have you been, how long have you been into this?

Be real.I felt, I think I was probably a teenager and for some reason.

So if you got into this when you were a teenager, it's safe to say that you've looked at this.You've, you've sent videos before a lot of videos.

No, that's actually very recent.

Okay.So how did you, how were you getting your fix?How were you getting your videos?I would just go online.You'd go online?Where at online?

Because you can't just go to Google.

No.I honestly can't remember how I've come across them.I've stumbled across them.

Do you ever have a Kik messenger?

I've never heard of it.

Discord?

It was all over the internet and I just stumbled across it.And you'd download it and look at it, right?

On this phone?

No.A phone that I don't even have at the moment.

What about computers and tablets?Do you have any of that?

I do, but I've never used them for that stuff.My laptop's straightforward.I walk only for my job.Okay.Yeah.Okay.

Okay.So here's what I'm going to do.Come with me real quick.You're not under arrest.I'm going to confer.I'm going to confer with my partners real quick.

Be careful.We secure him in your truck for just a second.Um, I've already patted him down.Let's go this way.Um, I've already patted him down.He doesn't have any weapons.

He's not under arrest yet.Yeah.Yeah.I'm sorry.Do your business, man.Um, I want to talk to you real quick.

Um, so here's what I got.Five calls, five funds.Oh, sorry.Well, he admits within the last seven days, he took a video of his daughter.and had every intent to send this to a guy named Timmy Tams.He says that it didn't go through.

Well, then he admitted today he deleted and wiped out all the phone, but he had it on him.I think I arrested him.I think I had probable cause at this point to arrest him.I arrested him.I do an Amy center.I explo his phone because he gave me consent and then I get search warrants for everything.

I have enough.I have enough for PC arrest.

Oh yeah.Here's where I stand up with it.

I'm gonna arrest him.He's detained right now.

Here's where I stand with it as well.The ongoing risks to the victim factor is worth detainment as well.That's where I stand.100%.He's already opened up a can of worms too it sounds like.

Well and here's the deal.I'm gonna dump his phone.He just deleted a lot of stuff today.That's what mom said.So when I dump it, I'm probably going to find it.

" After stepping away to talk with other deputies, Titor makes a call.With multiple kids inside the home and clear admissions on record, they move to secure Marcus.This one ends up rippling out into more arrests.

And by probably, I mean 99 .9 % is going to be on this file.We've got admission and there's a victim here that I think we'd be doing a disservice not to protect.

The risk outweighs.

We're taking, I'm arresting him.We're taking him.We have to take him.

What I'm going to do is I'm going to cuff him up.

If you want to cuff him, he's under arrest right now.I'm going to let him know what's going on.I'll have you book him on a child pornography statute.And then I'm going to go back to the office and get started on the investigation too.sure it up for the state's attorney for tomorrow.But he's got to go to jail, dude.

He has to go to jail.He's got three little girls in there.He's got to go to jail.

Oh, there's more children.

Yeah, I think there's three in total.They were leaving their home.We have to protect one.

The mom's still here.

Yes, correct.so I need to talk to her about private images that he took her.He says she knew about him and he disseminated some of his friend.That's also a Class 4 felony, dissemination of private sexual material.Yeah, unauthorized.So I'm going to go ahead and go with the arrest for the child porn.

We'll go from there.If one of you guys would be okay transporting for me.

You want to take him?I don't care.

It doesn't matter.

And if you can't, if you're busy, I can.

No, no, no.No, we don't care.

That's why we're here.Okay.Thank you guys.I appreciate you.All right, partner.This is what we're going to do right now.

I'm going to, we're going to have to take you and book you in.Okay.On possession.But you've been super awesome and you've been super forthcoming.If you step out, so right now you're going to go, you're going to go before the state's attorney.They're going to let you out.

They're going to let you go, but you got three daughters in here, dog.We've got to be careful.Sorry.

Um, so I don't want to get penalized by that.Can it be in the fight?It's a thing.

That's up to the captain right here, bud.He's a, he's a, He might not.It's our policy.We have to.I know.

So all right.

Scarlet.Hey, no, no, no, no, no.But listen, what I want to do is I'd like to talk to you again if that because I think I think you've got a lot of unresolved stuff we need to work out.

And honestly, there's even something else that knows me at the jail.And one of those I'm going is both hands.Well, we'll talk birds.You know, that's great.We'll talk to say, OK, no kidding.I want my talking.

So what we're going to do.I have permission to dump your phone, right?

Yeah.Okay.Can you take my wife, my wallet, if you don't mind?Yeah, I can.Just because it's in this pocket.Okay.

I'm going to grab your wallet.

Just because if she needs that car, I'll take it.

So I wanted you to know, we're going to book you on the child porn.

Right.

I'm going to export your phone.We're going to find out the extent of this.And I would love to, I would love to help you.I would love to get you some tips.

Marcus W. Leyva was arrested on the spot and initially charged with possession of as the investigation expanded using his phone and other records.He faced two counts of class X felony dissemination of in five counts of Class 2 felony possession.The evidence from his residence helped authorities arrest two others, 25 -year -old Cody J. Shepler and 29 -year -old Leo R. Barnett III, both charged with multiple counts of possession.No public prior criminal record has surfaced for Leyva in this case, though online comments from locals mentioned his involvement in cosplay and community events with kids, raising concerns after the arrest.Family reactions aren't fully detailed in public reports, but the bodycam captures the immediate tension, with mentions of his wife Janna discovering issues and other relatives in the background.It's clear this devastated the household, As of now, all three men are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

Cases like this often lead to long -term consequences, sex offender registration, restricted contact with minors, and major family separation.The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office emphasized protecting the children involved, and the forensic work here shows how one tip can dismantle networks.If you're dealing with anything similar or need support, reach out to local authorities or organizations focused on child protection and addiction recovery.What stands out to you in this footage?The detective's calm approach or how quickly it escalated?Tell me your thoughts below.

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