Overview
- The Netflix film released in late July revived public attention by showing previously unseen bodycam and interview material and coincided with court filings from Ian Diaz asking to vacate his federal sentence.
- Michelle Hadley was arrested in 2016, spent 88 days in jail after anonymous threats and staged incidents, and was later cleared when digital forensics showed the abuses were a calculated frame.
- State and federal investigations used IP traces, device fragments, temporary files and email fragments to link anonymous accounts to Angela Connell and Ian Diaz, leading to Connell’s state conviction and Diaz’s federal conviction for stalking, perjury and obstruction.
- Ian Diaz is serving a federal sentence at the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth with a listed release date of January 31, 2031, his Ninth Circuit appeal was denied in January 2025, and the government is opposing his current bid to vacate the sentence.
- Recent tabloid reporting that Diaz secretly remarried in 2020 and has children is sourced to unnamed insiders and has not been independently verified while Hadley has pursued a civil settlement, published work and raised a daughter born in 2023.