Ashleigh Hall thought she was meeting a teenage boy she knew online. The person behind the MySpace profile was actually a 33-year-old convicted sex offender. This documentary examines Ashleigh's disappearance from County Durham in October 2009 and the digital deception created by Peter Chapman. Investigators followed the fake profile, phone records, and travel route to uncover how the meeting had been arranged. The case ended with Chapman's 2010 murder conviction, but its lasting importance comes from the warning it revealed about online identity, false ages, and strangers hiding behind familiar profiles. If you enjoy modern true crime cases involving social media deception and digital investigations, this is a story built around a clear and disturbing evidence trail.

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