Long and crazy read. Prepare yourself.
January 16th, 2024 a video surfaced online of a gunman, Jeffrey West, 68, shooting his step-son, Kyle Spitze, 24, with a gun. Subsequently Jeffrey West got into a shootout with the police and dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The video was shared online by Kyle Spitze as he recorded the incident from his phone. (Image 1). It is rumored that Jeffrey West threatened to kill Kyle Spitze because he enjoyed cross-dressing.
Fast forward to February 27th: the Tennessee Eastern District Court unsealed documents showing that February 10th the FBI visited Kyle Spitze. They found a large quantity of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) on his personal device. Specifically, Kyle Spitze would perform sextortion on young juvenile women.
The released affidavit is long and censored to protect juveniles identities. The affidavit notes that the FBI CART (Computer Analysis Response Team) was able to successfully locate some of the victims from photograph metadata.
tl;dr crazy internet video accidentally unveils internet predator
The entire document is archived in our crime section on vx-underground as "2024-02-21 - United States v Spitze (Sextortion)"