Alleged Wisconsin college shooter Natalie ‘Samantha’ Rupnow is believed to have been an aficionado of a morbid website known as ‘Watch Folks Die.’ The disturbing website, which incorporates graphic pictures of individuals being killed, boasts that it has greater than three million registered customers. The positioning options pictures of individuals getting shot to demise, run over, and different college shooters. It additionally pictures of worldwide incidents, akin to a 19-year-old man who died after getting caught in a meat grinder.
Rupnow, who gunned down a teen scholar and a instructor at Considerable Life Christian Faculty in Madison, Wisconsin, is believed to have posted beneath the deal with @Crossixir. In response to an obvious suicide by hanging video, Rupnow is alleged to have written 4 months in the past, “Gotta be considering of one thing whereas hanging himself.”
When one other consumer requested Rupnow, 15, to clarify what she meant, she added, “I’m wondering what quite a bit folks suppose earlier than they die ? Like simply merely if it’s in the event that they wish to die in any respect or simply nothing, or both maybe simply intercourse or simply one thing silly. Solely factor I’d hassle to think about is simply do it already if I used to be killing myself however relies on the state of affairs. What would you suppose although?”
A month in the past, Rupnow posted a remark alongside a clip of a person leaping by means of a window, “Fats model of Liam Payne.”
The disturbing website
The positioning options different disturbing titles like “suicidal man offs himself in entrance of cops” and “employee will get crushed making an attempt to cease a forklift falling over.” Classes on the location embody “beating,” “beheading,” drowning,” “execution,” “taking pictures,” “ISIS,” and extra.
The positioning seems to be run by a male who makes use of an express display identify. “Hello! I hate this web site and that’s actually unlucky, as a result of I additionally run this web site,” the person wrote.
“Please think about logging off,” the location supervisor added. “Watching the rubbish right here doesn’t enhance your life in any manner. Go learn a e book or one thing.”
This week, the location banned the @Crossixir username. The positioning listed “don’t put up something unlawful beneath US regulation” and “don’t put up animal cruelty/abuse” amongst its guidelines, though it options posts about folks being killed.
In the meantime, photographs of Rupnow posted to her father’s Fb profile have emerged, one displaying her sporting a T-shirt that includes a band favored by Columbine killer Eric Harris. Rupnow’s personal alleged social media posts included pictures of shooters akin to Parkland highschool gunman Nicholas Cruz. There was additionally a point out of a 2007 college taking pictures in Jokela, Finland, and an image of the Columbine shooters. Rupnow died by suicide after finishing up the taking pictures.
Within the aftermath of the tragedy at Considerable Life Christian Faculty, Elementary and Faculties Relations Director Barbara Wiers mentioned at a press convention, based on New York Put up, “Regardless of tragedy, God is working, and we imagine that God is sweet in the whole lot and that he turns magnificence into ashes. He’s our basis at Considerable Life Christian Faculty. We exist to deliver and to construct the disciples of Jesus Christ so we’ve full religion he’ll carry us by means of this.”
Discussing suicides might be triggering for some. Nevertheless, suicides are preventable. For those who or somebody is contemplating suicide, please contact the Nationwide Suicide Hotline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
