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The Tampered Facebook Account and the Disappearing Messages
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One of the most disturbing developments in the investigation comes months after Brittany disappears, when a friend notices her Facebook account showing activity. Brittany's mom Jessica Rolfe notifies law enforcement. The account appears to be doing strange things: messages are being hidden, deleted, or altered. Notably, some of Brittany's conversations with Ashley Huley begin disappearing. Investigators take the activity seriously enough to request emergency Facebook records in July 2019, obtaining IP address data connected to account logins — but whatever those records revealed is absent from the case file Crime Junkie obtained. Ashley later acknowledges accessing Brittany's Facebook account after she disappeared, but frames it as an attempt to find clues about who Brittany had been communicating with. She says Sheldon provided her with a notebook of Brittany's passwords. She claims she could only get into one account, most passwords no longer worked, and she told detectives what she'd done when asked. She also says she was later approached by a private investigator claiming to work with law enforcement who asked for further access. Ashley maintains nothing she did was malicious — but the fact that Brittany's messages with Ashley specifically were among those that disappeared is difficult to overlook.
