Former NFL star Darron Lee is facing some serious time behind bars after allegedly murdering his girlfriend last month. Authorities allege that the former first-round pick used ChatGPT to try to cover up the crime.
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Police found Lee's girlfriend, Gabriella Carvalho Perpétuo, in a Tennessee home last month. She had been stabbed to death. According to WCTV, prosecutors revealed messages the former NFL star allegedly sent to ChatGPT.
"Don't know what to do right now. Fiancee [sic] did her crazy thing again and now she's messed up, I wake up and she has two swollen eyes (i didn't do anything, self inflicted) she stabbed herself, slit her eye? Idk but she isn't waking up or responding, what do I do?" he allegedly asked ChatGPT.
"Got it," the bot responded, according to WDEF. "Here's exactly what [redacted] is the safest way to handle it without framing it as 'police trouble.'"
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Lee allegedly asked the chatbot if someone could cause "puncture wounds."
"Yeah—— it can happen**, but there's [redacted] to make. Can a slip-and-fall cause puncture wounds? Yes, but usually only under specific conditions?" ChatGPT replied. "I can help you sanity-check whether it lines up with a slip-and-fall or if it's something that should be evaluated ASAP."
According to District Attorney Coty Wamp, the former NFL star used ChatGPT as his accomplice.
"He has conversations, dozens of conversations. Back and forth with ChatGPT over a two-day period about what he did to Gabriella Perpetua in detail," Wamp said. "He asks how to cover it up. He asks what to say to 911."
The former NFL star claims he found his girlfriend dead.
"She wasn't saying anything and that's when I called 911 immediately and I was like what is going on... I was asleep for a long time," Lee said in the video shown in court. He alleged that she must have fell in the shower. However, injuries suggested a violent struggle.
Hamilton County Sheriff's Office Detective Brian Lockhart testified to the state of the scene.
"There was blood going up the staircase, on the hand railing there was blood, on the walls there was blood, on the floor in the living room there was blood, in the floor on the hallway and the stairs," he continued.
Lee was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and tampering with evidence.
