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There Are Dark Corners of the Internet. Then There's 764
A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse.
The FBI’s interest in 764 appears to have begun with a core member of Cadenhead’s server who went by “Duck” or “Gorebutcher.” Victims described him as aggressive, sadistic, and cliquish, refusing to interact with underage girls he deemed unattractive and running an invite-only chat dedicated to the Order of Nine Angles. The detailed instructions document how to feign affection and draw victims into influence, then turn that attention into negative enforcement and sow self-doubt in order to bring that person to the edge of a “border-line episode.” The guide reads, “When they hit an episode, continue to break them down until they seem defeated.” Since Angel Almeida’s November 2021 arrest, he has tattooed an Order of Nine Angles septagram onto his chest, hurled racist and antisemitic invective at the presiding judge in his case, and twice lashed out in court appearances last year, attempting to attack both a DOJ employee in the audience during a June hearing and his own defense attorney at a proceeding last fall.
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