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I'm getting tips about someone using Omegle to shock people with live animal abuse, using tags like #furry. It's been going on for a few days and seems similar to (or maybe even copycatting) the Luka Magnotta story in Don't F*ck With Cats on Netflix. https://heavy.com/news/2020/05/reddit-crazy-cat-lady/
Witnesses say the "Crazy Cat Lady on Omegle" is burning and skinning cats alive. I haven't seen fandom connection besides hashtags to gain attention, and some furries trying to gather evidence, but there's a lot of talk about trying to ID and stop her.
The crazy cat lady on Omegle is an active situation right now so more of the story may come out. Feel free to tip me if there's anything worth adding to a thread. https://www.reddit.com/r/DontFuckWithCats/comments/gaqrzf/the_crazy_cat_lady_on_omegle/
Zoosadism is a rare fetish for torturing animals for sexual pleasure. Furries may recall it being a fandom topic with late 2018 leak of logs from a zoosadist ring, with members like @Kerothewolf, with arrests and a 25-year jail sentence for a ringleader. https://dogpatch.press/tag/zoosadism/
That secretive zoosadist ring had a lot of history for how it grew. I don't think it would have existed pre-2010's. I think it came from a confluence of 3 things: a thriving subculture of furries to hide in, lax corporate moderation, and encryption tech. https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/eqyssg/whats_going_on_with_woof_and_this_zoosadism_ring/ff53u7n/
My take is members of the zoosadist ring did it secretly for the fetish, with more insidious fandom ties. But with Luka Magnotta or this case on Omegle it may be more about the public notoriety. Seems like somewhat different motivations. Either way let's hope it gets stopped.
These zoosadism stories involve social media filter bubbles, lax moderation, copycatting for notoriety, or even financial motive. Youtube's Reptile Channel came from vore-fetishism, was banned once, and has 450K subs while Youtube lets it happen for views. https://dogpatch.press/2017/06/19/reptile-channel-animal-abuse/
Tip: a Furry Omegle group has completely shut down on an official basis. "This won't even be a chat with anything to do with Omegle anymore." I'm told admins claimed it was deliberately targeted to defeat attempts to keep it private.
There are a lot of very current tips here: https://www.reddit.com/r/thecrazycatladyfirst
In the past few hours they are focusing on a furry taxidermist on Facebook from Indiana. I looked and the activity is incredibly suspicious. Let's see if it leads to confirmation from Omegle or police.
In the past few hours they are focusing on a furry taxidermist on Facebook from Indiana. I looked and the activity is incredibly suspicious. Let's see if it leads to confirmation from Omegle or police.
More about the Omegle group. Comments say that besides the cat lady, there were also problems with trolls and murrsuiters showing too much to age 13+ users, so the site had a bigger safety issue. https://twitter.com/FurryOmegNight/status/1256733965144162304?s=19
ID of the "crazy cat lady" animal killer was posted in a doc an hour ago. It includes full dox, so I won't post that here, let police confirm it. If you have new info here's how to report to them.
A few shots from the doc. I have a copy shareable need-to-know, or go find it... I hope law enforcement takes care of it. It's sure to get some followup news.
More proof of ID -- evidence collectors are claiming that the crazy cat lady accounts and accounts of the suspected person in Indiana were hacked, and all shared the same password.
Update about the "Crazy Cat Lady of Omegle". It was thought to be a real animal torturer, but seems resolved as a hoax. (One that DID cause real terror, closure of furry activity, and harm to communities). I'm glad I didn't publish a story I wrote, it's less attention on a hoax.
Patreon subscribers can see that story (and update) posted as an exclusive. You can read all the Patron content for a measly $1 that supports a small budget for Dogpatch Press. https://www.patreon.com/dogpatchpress
Update to this thread from May: it was not a hoax. Amateur investigators called it a hoax for their final update in May. Their work ID'd a suspect -- a furry and taxidermist. While attention fell off, police and FBI kept working and in July did a raid and arrest of that suspect.
While the "crazy cat lady of Omegle" was called a hoax, I treated it as inconclusive and only showed the writeup in private (here's a preview link.) http://dogpatch.press/?p=72209&preview=1&_ppp=1bce12d5fe
After being ID'd in a huge internet hunt in May, the animal torture suspect still kept posting the content that got her in trouble even into July, according to news sources. https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/woman-accused-in-animal-torture-told-agents-her-good-side-loves-cats-and-dogs/531-1cb27b17-028c-47a8-bb91-a913fcf4a5fe
Here's the FBI announcement that Krystal Scott faces 7 years in jail and more for creating animal "crush" videos. Commercial profit operations with that form of cruelty got it federally banned in 2010, so she caught some serious charges here. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdin/pr/kokomo-resident-arrested-federal-animal-cruelty-charges
One of the most troubling aspects to me is how she was adopting pets to kill by deceiving offerers on Craigslist. If she didn't advertise the cruelty -- and wasn't tracked down by a big internet hunt -- nobody would know. That same practice has appeared in multiple awful stories.
Adopting animals from Craigslist for cruelty happened in this case with horses, by a woman promising sanctuary but having them slaughtered for profit. https://www.dvm360.com/view/veterinary-student-faces-fraud-charges-allegedly-sold-rescued-horses-slaughter
I learned of it via a friend who lost a horse. The fraud was solved with help from social media groups.
I learned of it via a friend who lost a horse. The fraud was solved with help from social media groups.
Closer to furry fandom -- using Craigslist to obtain pets to torture/kill also happened with Snakething/Levi Simmons, the Zoosadist ringleader now in jail for 25 years. https://dogpatch.press/2019/09/16/crime-ring-zoosadist/
Using Craigslist or Facebook ads to obtain pets to rape and kill was also alleged in a police report about @cupidthedeer. It led to his conviction for animal cruelty (with video of his crime sourced from Levi Simmons). Here's the legal docs about it. https://www.scribd.com/document/420587644/Grabowsky-Legal-Docs
Bottom line: I think with "the crazy cat lady" and other cases of zoosadism from bad apple furries or outsiders using similar methods -- there's a problem with social media enabling it -- and cybercrime with animal cruelty falling between the cracks of jurisdiction.
