Red Flag

and there was no perpetrator to prosecute. But in the time that it had taken to get these records, they'd already missed something big. The digital footprint of a school shooter is always full of red flags, that's no surprise. But these red flags weren't just missed warning signs of a shooting that it was too late to prevent. By the time that search warrant was served, another shooting had already happened, and they were worried it wouldn't be the last.

As they began sifting through the records, they found exactly what they were looking for, Another mass shooter in the making. I'm Molly Conger, and this is weird. Little guys, this story is awful in every way. It's complicated. There are too many moving parts and sealed documents and ongoing court cases and investigations that will never yield any court records. Because the perpetrator is dead. It's impossible to really nail down the truth in any way that I'm at all

comfortable with. I'm not going to get to the bottom of anything here, and it's uglier than usual. Even I am, for better or worse, pretty good at tuning out my own emotions when I read and write about terrible things. I try not to let my heart get hard, of course, but when I'm working, I'm working not feeling. It's easier that way, and I've had a lot of practice at it. I can get through the day reading page after page of old neo Nazi forum posts without letting it in.

I close my laptop at the end of the day, have dinner, watch a little TV, and I don't think about it when I'm lying in bed at night. That's not working This week, the story of this tangled network of online mass murder enthusiasts contained some of the darkest shit I've ever seen, But it is unfortunately time to update the story of Terogram. I did an episode way back in September of twenty twenty four. Very early on

in the show's existence, an episode called White Terror. When I wrote that episode, the FBI had recently arrested Matthew Allison and Dallas Humber, two of the leaders of the online community known as the Terogram Collective. What had started out as a sort of loose collection of informal online spaces started to coalesce around twenty nineteen into something more organized. By twenty twenty two, the Tterogram Collective was pushing out

slick propaganda manuals for acts of terrorism. Their online chats were centered on the idea of militant accelerationism, a violent worldview bent on forcing the collapse of civilization as we know it, triggering a race war that ends with the creation of a white ethno state. As part of their plan to bring all of that about, Trogram encourages mass shootings by celebrating the acts of prior shooters, elevating them

to a kind of sainthood. Saint Tarrant, Saint Rufe, Saint McVay, Saint Bravic, canonizing the men who would bathe the world in blood. There are scores of saints, depending on who you ask, but those four are always fan favorites. Brenton Arrant killed fifty one people at mosques in christ Church, New Zealand in twenty nineteen. Dylan Rufe killed nine people in a black church in South Carolina in twenty fifteen.

Jamith McVeigh killed one hundred and sixty nine people when he blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City in nineteen ninety five. Unders Brave It killed seventy seven people in Norway in twenty eleven, most of whom were teenagers at a summer camp. These saints aren't just revered figures though their role models. The goal of Saint culture is not just to talk about what they did. It's to encourage others to join their ranks. Alison and Humber are

still in custody with no date set for trial. Their cases haven't really budged at all. None of the updates to this story come from documents produced in those cases. I wish they had, because the updates we do have are more attacks, more murders linked to the Terogram collective. There have been a few more arrests, a few more foil plots, and a few more manifestos. There are more than a few episodes worth of updates to this story.

Adamoffin founder Brandon Russell and his girlfriend Sarah Beth Clendaniel have both been convicted for conspiring to blow up the Power Grind in Baltimore. A man in Tennessee was arrested mere moments before launching a drone armed with a bomb that he planned to drop on an electrical substation. A teenager in Australia tried to stab a member of parliament. A man in Washington was convicted for possession of a machine gun. A man in Pennsylvania was arrested for possession

of child sexual abuse material. A teenager in Wisconsin murdered both of his parents because he needed to empty their bank accounts to fund his plan to overthrow the government.

Both the United States and Australia have joined the United Kingdom in officially designating Terogram as an international terrorist organization, and just this month, the FBI arrested a man in California who they allege was the primary author of the List, which was trogram's collection of personal information about people they deemed high value assassination targets. All of these crimes are connected, not directly necessarily, these people didn't all know each other.

But they all consumed the same content, they traveled in the same digital spaces, they had friends in common, and they all wanted to destroy society as we know it. Many of those are stories that we'll get to eventually. I've been kicking the can on writing about Brandon Russell all year, but some of the others will take time to wind their way through the courts to some kind of conclusion. No, today we're talking about Damien Blade Allen.

Kind of his story isn't quite over yet either, but to start telling it, we have to start so far before the beginning that we might as well get a head start. Damian Allen was arrested in April of twenty twenty five in Palm Beach County, Florida. He's been charged with written threats to conduct a mass shooting, unlawful use of a badge, and unlawful use of a two way communications device. That third charge is something you see pretty

often in felony cases in Florida. It just means you used a phone or a computer to facilitate the commission of a felony. It kind of just feels like a way to add five years to any underlying felony, But Florida's criminal code isn't the point here. The point is Damian Allen didn't actually shoot anyone, He just talked about it.

But to understand how he ended up facing the charges, we have to talk about who he was talking to when he made those plans, and we have to go back in time to talk about several people who did carry out their attacks. Urai Krajik in Slovakia, Arda Kasukia Team in Turkey, Samantha Upnow in Wisconsin, and Solomon Henderson in Tennessee. Uri Krazik and Arta Kasukia Team we've already talked about in the Tarogram episode last fall. Krajik was

Tterogram's first saint. He was the first member of the group to heed the call and add himself to the pantheon. He was in direct personal contact with the group's leaders for months leading up to his death in October of twenty twenty two. He shot himself after killing two people outside of a gay bar and brought us lava, and after he died, Dallas humber Broke orded an audiobook of his manifesto. Arda Kosukia Team was discussed briefly in that

episode two. In August of twenty twenty four, the eighteen year old stabbed five men outside of a mosque in his Kishehir, Turkey. Thankfully, none of his victims died and he was taken into custody alive. His manifesto explicitly credits several Tarogram publications for inspiring the attack, and Terogram channels praised the attack. Writing in one Terogram chat, Dallas Humber noted that despite his obvious commitment to the cause, he couldn't be added to the list of saints worshiped by

the group because he wasn't white. When Terogram leaders Dallas Humber and Matthew Allison were indicted a month after Kosukia Team's attack, his attack was one of three acts of terror that the Department of Justice alleged they can concretely connect the pair two, charging them with directly soliciting it. Another of those three attacks was the brodest Lava shooting.

After arta Kosukia Team was arrested, he told Turkish authorities that he'd been assisted and encouraged throughout the process of planning the attack over a period of months by someone he'd met online. He said they communicated in English, and he believed this person was a teenager living in Eastern Europe. His online friend used the name fyotulf Hansen, which you might think sounds like a clue, but it really isn't. It's just another homage to the mass shooters these young

men idolize. Fiotulf Hansen was from twenty seventeen until twenty twenty five the legal name of Norwegian mass murderer under Bravik. Bravik has since made yet another legal name change, and he is now going by far Skalde Grimmer RAUSKYI older of north Riki. I haven't pronounced that right, and that's okay. It is apparently an entirely made up name, loosely based in Old Norse. This Hanson, though the one chatting with Arta Kaskia team about how to most sufficiently carry out

mass murders, was not actually Andres Bravic. Obviously, he's just a fan. And on the day of Kasukia team's attack August twelfth, twenty twenty four, mis Hanson served as a sort of public relations agent for these attempted murders. Kasuka team had prepared an array of photographs and documents ahead of time, to be shared online, which Hanson appears to have spent the day doing on a variety of platforms. Marc Andre Argentino, a senior research fellow at the Accelerationism

Research Consortium, notes this trend. In this and similar attacks, it a sort of press kit. Kazukia team had taken selfies posing in his gear and photos of all the gear laid out neatly on the floor. He uploaded his own manifesto, along with more than a dozen other documents, including meinkomf, James Mason's Siege, several Terogram publications, and a

publication by a group called the Maniac Murder Cult. Also in that folder were the manifestos of several mass shooters who inspired him, including the one that Jurai Krazik had sent directly to the leaders of the Tterogram collective before he murdered two people and brought us lava in twenty twenty two. But once Kazukia Team was out there trying to commit mass murder, he couldn't really be posting. He

couldn't be checking his phone. That was Hanson's job. He created a Twitter account to post links to the live stream in the files. He posted links and images on forums devoted to gore videos, and around the same time, someone probably Hanson, posted those same links on four Chan, and he also invited a small handful of users to a private group chat on Telegram. Before the attack began, Kasuki Team sent Hanson a message on Telegram announcing that

it would begin soon. The message had the links to the photos, the documents, the manifesto, and the live stream. Hanson forwarded that message to the private chat just before the stream went live. There were nine people in the chat. They dissembled ahead of time with fore knowledge of this impending attack. This was a watch party. The stream was short. The longest version of the video that I could find, which does seem to be the entirety of the original stream,

is less than three minutes long. The opening frames show the attacker's face. He's staring directly into the camera. It's like he's looking at you. He's wearing a helmet, goggles, and a half faced skull mask, and the shot lingers there on his face for a little too long before he affixes the camera to the front of his tactical

vest and starts walking outside of the mosque. A dozen or so older men were sitting in a cafe area after evening prayer, and they seem to ignore this oddly dressed teenager until he approaches a man from behind and stabs him. But then, instead of attacking any of the other men in the immediate area, most of whom are in their seventies and sitting down, he takes off running. It's an odd scene. Remember, he's wearing safety goggles, a helmet, a skull mask, a black tactical vest, and camo pants.

He looks weird and he's just stabbed a man, but the reactions from most of the people around him are pretty subdued. He lunges towards another man, who cries out and does try to run from him, but an older man smoking a cigarette a few feet away watches this happen and just says, what are you doing in a tone that I can only describe as disinterested. As Kosuki team runs off down the street and through a nearby park,

he stabs several more people at random. An old man on a bench in the park yells at him to go away, but a lot of the people don't react to him at all. He was tackled by police less than a minute and a half after the attack began, and the video ends with the camera pointed up towards the sky with faces peering down at it. He's lying on his back in a parking lot, surrounded by a handful of police officers and a crowd of curious onlookers.

In the chat, the group was disappointed he had stabbed several people, but in the video you can't actually see much. There's no blood, there's barely any screaming, there's no corpses. Nobody died. It was just a lot of shaky footage of the path in a park and audio of a nervous teen breathing heavily. A user known only as Nitro wrote a for effort. Hansen said at least he did it, and a third user replied credit for that at least.

That third message posted in that invite only private watch party for what they hoped would be a mass murderer, was written by a fourteen year old girl in Madison, Wisconsin. Four months later, not long after her fifteenth birthday, she murdered two people before taking her own life. Natalie Rucknow, who preferred to go by Samantha, didn't live stream her attack,

which was a great disappointment to her followers. In the final few minutes before she opened fire in a classroom at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, on December sixteenth, twenty twenty four, she was sitting in a bathroom stall making her last posts, a photo of her own hand making the okay symbol commonly used to mean white power, and a link to her manifesto that Boase garnered significant attention later in the day, but at first, before it

was big news, only a few people saw it. She only had a handful of followers. One of those followers replied to the post, writing quote live stream it. He quoted her post too, adding the same message live stream it. He seemed to know what it was, despite the fact that the link to the manifesto she posted didn't work. He could only see the photo, a photo posted without a caption of a hand held out over a bathroom floor live stream it. He understood, or perhaps knew, that

this was her final post before an attack. There's no concrete evidence, at least none that's been made public, that this user had communicated directly with Roupnow about the specifics of what was about to happen, but they were mutuals. They followed each other's Twitter accounts. Screenshots of her account taken before the attack hit the News showed that she followed nineteen accounts. I can only tell you for sure

who two of them belonged to. She followed two accounts that both belonged to a seventeen year old boy in Antioch, Tennessee. A month after Rupnow's death, he was dead too. Solomon Henderson shot and killed a student in his high school cafeteria before taking his own life. It's like a virus. It's like the ring. These kids are watching people die online. They're consuming online media about mass murder, and then within weeks they're dead too, and they've taken other people with them.

Samantha up Now killed two people, Aaron West, a teacher, and a fourteen year old student named Ruby Vergara. Aaron loved camping in Disney World and her husband of twenty years and their three daughters. Ruby loved art, her pets, and playing keyboard in her family worship band. They weren't targeted. Their deaths were random, a meaningless, nihilist act of violence.

Solomon Henderson killed sixteen year old Joscelyn Correa Escalante Joscelyn came to the United States from Guatemala when she was nine. She was on the soccer team and she hoped to become a doctor. The photo in her obituary is from hur Quine Sanieira. They were so much more than that. Of course, those few small details don't capture the depth of what was lost. But I only know as much about these victims as their families shared with the media or wrote in their obituaries. I had to try to

learn something about who they were. They were real people, people who were loved, people who had passions and struggles and dreams, people with so much life left to live, and that can't be allowed to get lost in this story of contagious, hateful violence, violence seemingly for the sake of violence alone. The way they died was meaningless, but their deaths weren't, and their lives weren't. And selfishly, I

had to see their faces, smiling and alive. It's the only way to push out the images of things I wish I hadn't seen. After Solomon Henderson carried out his attack at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee, two documents surfaced. One was a manifesto fifty one pages long. The other was nearly three hundred pages of his online diary covering

the months leading up to the attack. Both documents are full of links, screenshots, memes, selfies, copied sections of other texts, and any truth they hold is buried in so many layers of irony and inside jokes from incredibly insular online communities that it's hard to take much away from them. It is a manifesto and a diary, That's what the documents are. But reading those documents it felt like I spent most of the day reading a child's suicide note,

because that's really what they are. Like Arta Kasukia Team, like Urai Krazik, like Samantha Rupnow Solomon Henderson was struggling with thoughts of suicide. His diary starts in October of twenty twenty four, three months before he died. It opens with quote, I'm burning with hate. Hate will change the world. An entry later in the evening that same day includes the line quote the only good nd word is a dead end word, and that includes me, Solomon Henderson. It

may surprise you to hear was black. He knew this meant he couldn't be made a Saint pterogram. Saints have to be white, but he wanted to do it anyway. He wanted to be like his heroes, and he wanted to inspire more violence. Andy wanted to be dead. A few days later, he wrote, I'm perfect for this. I have no faith in humanity. He doesn't say yet what this is, but it's the same it he meant when he told Samantha up now to live stream it. It's clear that he was already planning a shooting, and that

he had been for months. The same week he started keeping the diary, he pulled a box cutter on another student at school and was spended for two days. He was charged with attempted reckless endangerment, but was placed in a diversion program instead of being prosecuted. On December sixteenth, twenty twenty four, at two am, he wrote in the diary, when I think about what I'm going to do, I get sad seeing and reading kids and adults before who did similar attacks. The loneliness, the fact we had no

other choice, no help, just nothing. So like I said, it's clear that he'd already been planning to do something. He'd had the idea in his head long before what happened later that day, but after Samantha Upnow's attack, he became fixated on her, and his resolve to carry out

his attack intensified significantly. Later that evening, he wrote in the diary, holy shit, the New School shooter followed me, and he pasted in screenshots of her account before it was deleted, showing that they did indeed follow each other. On December eighteenth, two days after she died, he wrote, She's stuck in my head. The next day, he created

a new Discord server. The portions of that server that I've been able to view don't show very many messages prior to the day he died, but based on the reactions from the other users, it appears they all understood when he invited them to the server that its purpose was for them to be able to access the live

stream on the day he decided to do it. Creating the server was a concrete step taken toward the attack, and it was directly motivated by his new obsession with Repnow, who he refers to as Saint Tris Repnow in both his diary and his manifesto. At the end of the manifesto, in a section titled final remarks, Henderson wrote, I was so miserable I wanted to kill myself. I just couldn't take it anymore. I'm a worthless subhuman, a living, breathing disgrace.

That all changed once I read Urikraje's manifesto and the English edition Mass Cleaner Handbook. He's referring to the Bradoslava shooter's manifesto and the document written by Arta Kasukia Team Mack. When I originally read Kasukya Team's manifesto in August, I had to copy and paste the Turkish text and to Google translate one paragraph at a time. The English edition he's talking about was posted online by that mysterious user

calling himself Hansen. Henderson's manifesto ends with this quote, I take great pride in the fact that the people before and after me will commit similar acts, not only in the USA, but all over the world. I hope you all enjoyed the broadcast After the shooting at Antioch High School on January twenty second, twenty twenty five, people on Twitter noticed something. They found his account. He'd been mutual followers with rupp Now and interacted with her on the

day of the shooting. Several users had said back in December that the authorities should follow up with him specifically based on those posts. In January, at least one person posted that they'd gone to the trouble of submitting an official FBI tip the month prior. It's not clear if the tip was even made, or if anyone followed up on it, or if the authorities had Henderson on their

radar at all. Well, it's not clear if he on their radar in January of twenty twenty five, because the authorities had been in contact with Solomon Henderson several times. He was arrested in twenty twenty when he was just thirteen, after his mother called the police to report that he'd run away after punching her in the face and hitting her with a chair. In November of twenty twenty three, he was charged with aggravated sexual exploitation of a miner

after downloading child sexual abuse material. There aren't any more details provided in the reporting on this. He was a miner himself, just sixteen at the time, but child sexual abuse material is always illegal for anyone to have for any reason, and it's also rampant in the same online communities. The traffic and gore videos and mass shooting warship as

a miner. His court record is not open for public inspection, but news outlets report that he was court ordered to have no access to the internet except for as needed for schoolwork, but it's not clear what the duration of that sentence would have been. At some point in twenty twenty three, the Nashville Police took two guns away from the home, but police will only say that the guns belonged to an adult, but they can't release any more details about why they were called to the house in

the first place because it involved a minor. And then in October of twenty twenty four, he was arrested for pulling a knife on a girl at school on the day of the shooting. In January, he was dropped off at school late. He'd spent all morning at court with his mother. As part of the diversion program he'd been put into for that charge, he had to sign paperwork acknowledging that he was court ordered not to possess any guns or ammunition, so there were warning signs they knew

who he was. He wasn't allowed online, and he wasn't allowed to touch a gun, and the cops had previously removed all of the guns from his home. Doesn't seem to have made a difference, and while the cops may have missed some of the red flags in Solomon Henderson's final days, they did show some initiative. The day after Repnew's death, authorities in California detained a twenty year old

man named Alexander Paffendorf. It would take months to get records from the various platforms where Repnow had been posting and messaging in order to see the full scope of her online communications, but her messages with Paffendorf were seen by agents immediately, and those messages were very concerning. Apparently the pair had been messaging in the days leading up

to the attack. It isn't entirely clear to me, based on the reporting that I could find, if Pafendorf had specific prior knowledge of the shooting, like an actual time, date, and place, but they had been exchanging fairly explicit messages about their shared intent to carry out a mass shooting in the near future. His messages to her contained details of a plan to attack a federal building using guns and explosives. The FBI acted quickly, and they arrived at

his home with guns drawn. The very next day, when he was interviewed by FBI agents, he admitted to exchanging messages with Rupnow, but he wasn't charged with a crime. Instead, the Carlsbad, California Police Department filed an application for a gun violence emergency protective Order, and they placed him on a psychiatric hold. It turned out that Alexander Paffendorf didn't own any guns. He had no guns or bomb making materials at all. He'd just been trying to impress a

teenage girl online. The two talked online quite a bit, chatting about their suicidal thoughts, their white supremacist beliefs, and their plans to murder as many people as possible, but he claims he didn't mean it. He apologized in court, saying he'd been attempting to pursue a romantic relationship with the girl and never had any intention of purchasing any weapons or following through on the things they talked about.

Maybe he assumed she didn't mean it either. No criminal charges were filed against Paffendorff, and a judge in San Diego ruled in April that he will be legally barred from owning a gun until at least twenty twenty eight It's not entirely clear if he knew she was only fifteen, but given the nature of the online spaces they were in, I would bet that he did, and Alexander Paffendorff was knocked Samantha Rupnow's only online boyfriend. That six page document

she posted just before the shooting was locked. It was a link to a Google doc that she'd forgotten to make publicly accessible. Unlike Artikazu Yeteam, she hadn't prepared a mass shooter's press kit and left it with a co conspirator, so at first it seemed like no one would ever know what was in the manifesto. Within hours, though, a Canadian woman named Anna Slats claimed to have made contact with the shooter's boyfriend. Slats is a journalist, I guess.

In twenty eighteen, she was the editor of her college newspaper until she was forced to step down after making the editorial decision to publish a racist screed from a no neo Nazi. She worked briefly for the far right, virulently islamophobic outlet Rebel News, and sometimes wrote for The Post Millennial. In twenty twenty two, she founded her own outlet that focuses almost exclusively on stirring a hatred towards trans women, and that may have been what sparked Slats's

initial interest in the story. There were rumors in the immediate aftermath of the shooting that Repnow was transgender. She wasn't by all accounts, she was a heterosexual cisgender female. But regardless of what drew Slats to the story, she managed to convince a user who claimed to be Repnow's long distance boyfriend to share a copy of the manifesto with her. She then proceeded to water mark each page of the manifesto with her own name before posting the

images to Twitter. Now, as a journalist, I understand the frustration at having your work stolen and your research used without credit. I do. It's happened to me too many times to count. But I can't, for the life of me, even begin to imagine these series of thoughts and ideas that would have to pass through your head to lead you to a place where you were watermarking your name onto the pages of a manifesto of a dead child

hours after the author shot up a school. That makes me nauseous but like I said, journalist is kind of a loose term here. The boyfriend, who's never been named publicly, says Repno sent him the manifesto on WhatsApp about an hour before the shooting, but that he didn't see it until hours later. A classmate says Repnow had talked about having an internet boyfriend who lived in Germany, and that appears to be the same individual who provided the manifesto.

We don't know if he's actually a teenager or actually in Germany, but these are the elements of his identity that he claims, and that she was telling people in her life. The unnamed Twitter user slat spoke to said they'd been talking for about two years and he did seem to know a significant amount of information about Repnow's home life. So she sent the manifesto to her German boyfriend.

She exchanged murder fantasies with Alexander Paffendorff, but there was at least one more internet boyfriend chatting about mass shootings with Samantha Repnow. The first two internet boyfriends came to light on the day of the shooting. FBI agents saw the messages between Repno and Paffendorf as soon as they took custody of her phone, and the unnamed German boyfriend outed himself in a series of tweets and ultimately shared

the manifesto with Anna Slats. The third man's existence didn't come to light until he was arrested at the end of April twenty twenty five, four months after Repnow's death. It took that long for the very slow wheels of the justice system to turn. According to the charging documents in Damian Allen's case, the FBI searched Repnow's cell phone and home almost immediately, but they didn't even apply for the search warrants for her TikTok accounts until over a

month later, on January thirtieth, twenty twenty five. It's useless to speculate about why that might be. Maybe that's just how long it took to get around to the paperwork. Maybe that's how long it took for them to figure out which accounts belonged to her. It's common for people active in online extremist communities to cycle through a ca counts pretty quickly, getting banned for posting something hideous, making a new account, reconnecting with old followers, getting banned again,

and so on forever. So maybe it took a little bit of legwork to know what to even ask for when drafting them warrant. I'm willing to bet that played a role here, But the timing does raise an uncomfortable question. Had they not planned on looking at everything, they'd gone in guns blazing to grab Alexander Paffendorff right away, and that turned out to be a situation that was admittedly gross, but not life threatening. There was no mass murder in the making there. He was just a guy with violent

fantasies who wanted to date a child. Again disgusting, abhorrent, but he was lying about planning a mass shooting. He didn't even own a gun. So maybe it took the entire six weeks between December sixteenth, when the shooting occurred in January thirtieth and the war it was signed. Maybe it took six weeks to identify all the TikTok accounts connected to rupnow. But maybe Solomon Henderson's attack on January

twenty second played a part in that timeline. Paffendorf was bluffing, But after the shooting in Tennessee, it was all too clear that not everyone shed talked to online was some of them were deadly serious. Either way, we'll never know, and it took TikTok two months to respond to the court order to produce those records. So it wasn't until April of twenty twenty five that FBI agents in Milwaukee made an urgent call to the FBI Field office in Miami. They needed to get in touch with the Palm Beach

County Sheriff's Office as soon as possible. One of the men who'd spent all summer chatting with Rough now appeared to be one of their deputies. After what must have been a very tense call between the FBI and the Internal Affairs Bureau in Palm Beach, it was determined that the accounts did belong to Damian Allen, But despite the scores of photos of Allan posing in his apparently very real Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office uniform, he'd never been

employed there or by any law enforcement agency. When police searched his home, they found eighteen guns, twelve thousand rounds of ammunition, and a variety of authentic or realistic replicas of uniforms for various law enforcement agencies and branches of the military. According to the charging documents, Damian Allen communicated with Samantha upp Now regularly between May and September of

twenty twenty four. The documents only contain excerpts of their conversations over TikTok DM, but they exchanged usernames for a variety of other platforms, including Snapchat and discord. In one message in May of twenty twenty four, Repnow tells Alan quote, I wanted to do a black church that was near me, but you know. He responded by telling her about his gear, describing his bulletproof best, his collection of high capacity magazines,

and stockpile of flash banks and smoke grenades. Repnow, who was at the time just fourteen years old, says she only had access to her dad's handguns. In the middle of this conversation about guns, Alan wrote quote, once you get to a point, there's no going back. And he said he had a plan to strike seven different locations. Two weeks later, in another late night conversation about their plans to carry out mass shootings, Alan wrote, quote, we

go down together. Twitch. Rup Now replied correct, I love you. I love you more, Alan wrote. In July, Repnow scolded Alan for a post he'd made. The post isn't described in the affidavit, and his accounts are gone for the most part, but it sounds like he'd probably posted one of those fan edit videos of cut together clips and photos of different murderers. It's a popular style of content

in these communities. But Repnow's message admonishes him. She wrote, quote, Dylan Cleebold was a Jew, Adam Landsa was a gay pedophile, Nick was also a pedophile. The Trump shooter also a Jew. Peyton Gendron was in de furryborn which all of that is disgraceful and disgusting. Looks stuff up before posting it. Apparently she thought his taste in my lass shooters was lowbrow. By September of twenty twenty four, they seem to have

broken up. The charging documents only contained snippets, so there's no context, But on September twenty third, rub Now wrote quote, I know I unadded you, and I apologize. I love you and I'm so sorry about all this. I hope all goes well for you and I don't do what I did again. A few minutes later, she followed up, writing I will always care and love you, even if I'm not right for you. As much as I want to talk to you every day and hour of my time, I can't because I don't want to harm you in

any way. A few days later, Alan messaged her to say his other account had been banned and asked her to Adam on Snapchat. It is possible they continued chatting

on another platform. The Palm Beach Sheriff's Detectives affidavit only describes the communication he reviewed from the direct messages on TikTok, and there's no allegation made in the affidavit that they believe Alan had specific prior knowledge of the shooting that Rucknow carried out in December, and all mention of communications between the two of them stops after September of twenty

twenty four, three months before the shooting. The latter half of the affidavit is just dedicated to describing the hundreds of Instagram, TikTok and discord posts he made pretending to be a sheriff's deputy, which again he was not. But there is one rather cryptic line at the end of the affidavit quote. It should be noted that it appears Alan stopped communicating in his chat before Rucknow executed her

plan and has not communicated again since. Alan was talking to numerous members prior to the attack almost daily, so he stopped posting in his own discord channel right before Rupp now carried out her attack. He'd been posting in that discord constantly, and then suddenly he stopped. He went dark online. There's no mention of anything he posted anywhere

after December of twenty twenty four. I found a handful of posts made in January February of this year on TikTok and Instagram accounts that he used for posting pictures of his cop role play server in Grand Theft Auto. But his real accounts, his personal accounts, his accounts where

he expressed himself politically, those went away. Was Damian Allen actually preparing to carry out a mass shooting of his own or was he just another grown man telling a fourteen year old girl he loved her while encouraging her to kill the difference between Damian Allen and Alexander Paffendorff is the guns. Pafendorf was talking and shit, he didn't

actually have so much as a bullet in his possession. Alan, however, had so much ammunition in his home that the initial reports just listed it as three hundred pounds of bullets because it was easier to weigh them than to count them. He also had a closet full of police and military uniforms that were so realistic the FBI thought he was

a real cop. It's impossible to know what might have happened, but his fascination with both mass shootings and fourteen year old girls seems to date back at least a couple of years. In October of twenty twenty one, when Alan was a nineteen year old high school senior, he was charged with lewde and lascivious molestation of a victim under sixteen. I will note for the record that he was not

actually convicted on this charge. He was placed in a pre trial diversion program that required him to complete a mental health evaluation and prohibited him from possessing firearms for a period of time. The case was dismissed after he successfully completed the diversion program in twenty twenty three, which is weird because he was posting videos of himself all over social media throughout twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three of himself handling firearms, so I guess this one

just slipped through the cracks. So to be clear, Technically, he was not convicted of groping a fourteen year old girl's breast, but the affidavit is interesting either way. The victim told police she'd noticed Alan watching her during gym class. After jim class, he followed her as she walked to lunch.

At some point, she asked him what sort of vibe he was going for with his outfit, and he responded that he was trying to achieve a quote nineteen ninety nine, Columbine Vine like a black trench coat with stuff strapped to me. This obviously made the girl a little uncomfortable, so she turned to walk away. He followed her, then grabbed her by the shoulder and slid his hand down

her chest, grabbing her breast. Alan told the responding officer that the girl was making up the stuff about him touching her because she'd been scared of what he said about Columbine. So he does admit that he told a much younger student that he was costplaying as a school shooter. He just denies that he touched her. Damian Allen is currently being held without bond in Palm Beach County. I'm interested to see if his case turns up any new evidence about the online spaces where he may have first

met rap Now. I seriously doubt he just messaged her on TikTok at random. They overlapped somewhere. He's an indictment of a man named Anna Ruth Koposwami in Pennsylvania offers a hint that only raises more questions. Kapasami was an avid consumer of Terogram content, but he was arrested for the possession of child sexual abuse material, material that he'd solicited from a teenage girl that he was grooming online.

The victim in this case lived in Georgia. Kawasami lived in Pennsylvania, and in filings in his case, the government notes that the victim posted on Instagram that she'd been friends with Robnow, and while his charges are related to the allegations that he coerced a minor into sending him sexual photographs, their conversations weren't just about sex. He was also talking to her about how to commit and get

away with murders. I couldn't tell you exactly how many men are online right now trying to convince a teen to commit random, unprovoked acts of lethal violence. But it doesn't feel like a coincidence that these girls encountered each other online before it turns out, this wasn't really a story about Damian Allen at all, was it. I could have written a few thousand words about Alan's tragic backstory.

I certainly wasted enough time digging it up, trying to fill in the blanks and court records and old Facebook statuses. His parents seemed to have had a pretty violent relationship. His father was charged several times with things like domestic violence and child neglect, but it never seemed to stick. His mom left him with his father, taking his baby brother with her when she moved in with a new

boyfriend and had another son. His mom was in and out of rehab a few times before ending up in prison in twenty seventeen for sex trafficking a friend's teenage daughter. Seems to be when he started pretending to be a cop online. But none of that really matters, does it. I don't know when he started fantasizing about mass murder or how he met the murderer he said he loved.

I don't know if he was lying to impress a child, or if he really was going to do something with all those guns, maybe he was all talk, or maybe he was going to be the next link in the chain reaction of violence that started in an online chat room. But if not him, who will it be. You're right, Grayjake is dead. Samantha up Now is dead. Solomon Henderson is dead. All three teenagers took their own lives after carrying out a shooting at the urging of people they

met online. Between the three of them, they killed five people, but Ta Graham killed eight. They were sucked into online communities steeped in gore, communities that celebrated death and made them believe that the only way their lives would have any meaning is if they died doing something too horrible to forget. Bartika Sukia Team was arrested before he could attempt to take his own life, and he now faces

over one hundred years in prison. Dallas Humber and Matthew Allison are awaiting trial for their role in encouraging these attacks. Terrogram has been designated as a terrorist organization. At least a dozen people associated with the group have been arrested around the world. Terogram is dead. Kind of but it's not really something you can kill. It can kill you, but you can't kill an idea. This particular network operating under this name and with these particulars leaders, that's gone.

The virus is still spreading in the dark corners of the Internet. People are posting fan adits of mass shooting live streams and egging each other on, asking each other who is going to be the one to get the next high score. Weird Little Guys see production of Cool Zone Media and iHeartRadio. It's research, written and recorded by me while I hunger. Our executive producers are Sophie Lichtterman and Robert Evans. The show is edited by the wildly

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