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Reinhold sat stunned in the soft glow of his computer screen. It was approaching dawn

on Tuesday, July 9, 2002 and the 23-year-old medical student had been up all night on the

internet. What he had witnessed had disturbed him measurably and Reinhold had to tell

somebody. He opened up a new email template and began typing.

Ladies and gentlemen of the Federal Criminal Bureau, my name is Reinhold. He went on to

describe his experiences online the night before. Seeking horrifying thrills, Reinhold

had used widely popular search engines to explore the darkest recesses of the internet for

the content that would shock him. They led him to a forum where a small but active group

of users interacted excitedly over their shared interests in taboo and door forbidden

fetishes. Reinhold thought that what he was reading was just a Rodic roleplay based

in tireless infantasy. His attention was soon drawn to an advertisement posted by a user

named Frankie. Titled, boys sought for butchering, their company in text read,

Hi, I'm Frankie from Germany. I'm looking for young men between 18 and 30 to butcher.

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