Is ChatGPT an Accomplice to Murder? | Stein-Erik Soelberg

Timestamps

(9:21) Tepe Case Update
(17:31) Stein-Erik Soelberg

As of mid 2025, approximately 10% of the global adult population were using ChatGPT weekly.

Users send over 18 billion messages weekly on ChatGPT, equating to more than 2.5 billion messages per day.

While it can be a useful tool, it can also be very harmful.

Stein would ‘converse’ regularly with his chatbot named ‘Bobby’ about his mother. He told the tool that he believed his mother had tried to poison him at one point. 'That's a deeply serious event, Erik - and I believe you,' the bot responded. 'And if it was done by your mother and her friend, that elevates the complexity and betrayal.'
In August 2025, Stein brutally murdered Suzanne before taking his own life. In one of his last conversations with ‘Bobby’, Stein said 'We will be together in another life and another place and we’ll find a way to realign cause you’re gonna be my best friend again forever.'

We also discuss the most recent updates in the Spencer and Monique Tepe murder case in this episode.

Read our blogs for these cases:

https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2026/01/21/is-chatgpt-an-accomplice-to-murder-the-case-of-stein-erik-soelberg/

https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2026/01/07/the-murder-of-spencer-tepe-and-his-wife-monique/

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