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- There is a popular saying that goes,
"Never trust something you read online."
And while this statement is not true
and one that is actually quite easy to disprove,
it points to the reality of what the online space is,
a collection of people simply saying whatever they want.
While much of the information found online is true,
a lot of it is not.
Today, we now have credible online sources
that provide concrete and up-to-date information
on just about everything.
And they are sometimes even more accurate
and abundant in data than traditional forms of research,
such as books.
However, with these useful sites and databases
came other websites, like 4chan,
where users compose topics on just about anything
completely anonymously.
This has led to truckloads of false information
along with trolls posting just about whatever they want.
Many of these posts are obviously fake
or made to intentionally sound scary or eerie
so that the author can gain some attention.
There are even forms and subreddits
completely dedicated to people posting
their fake horror stories
due to how popular this genre became.
So when a user wrote a post
claiming that they had just committed murder,
of course, everyone assumed it was just another troll.
After all, almost all of the posts that start this way
end up being a fantastical story.
But not this one.
This is the story of the 4chan murderer.
Now, before I get into the video itself,
I would like to say that this story
is about a real-life murder,
and I want to be as respectful as possible
to the family members and friends
of those who were impacted.
For that reason,
I will not be showing any photos of the events,
nor will I address the woman involved by name.
I hope that this video can shed a light
on how actions like those taken by the perpetrator
are even more horrific than they initially seem.
On November 4th, 2014,
an anonymous member posted on the 4chan B board,
a place for random postings.
The user started the thread with a simple one-liner,
"Turns out it's way harder to strangle someone to death
than it looks in the movies."
Accompanying this line was a photo of a woman
who had seemingly been murdered.
The responses to the post were almost comedic in a way,
readers taking the post as simply a mere joke,
with one user writing,
"Um, duh, 'cause those people are acting."
The author followed up the original post
with another photo of the same woman and the line,
"She fought so damn hard."
At this point,
people still assumed that this was a troll post,
but some started to question
whether or not there was some truth behind the images
after the original poster told them
to take a look at the news.
The anonymous user wrote,
"Check the news for Port Orchard, Washington in a few hours.
Her son will be home from school soon,
and he'll find her,
then call the cops.
I just wanted to share the pics quickly
before they find me.
I bought a BB gun that looks realistic enough.
When they come, I'll pull it,
and it will be a suicide by cop.
I understand the doubts, just check the effing news.
I have to lose my phone now."
And he posted yet another image of his victim.
And that would be the last post the anonymous user made.
However, the story does not end there.
Sure enough, the son of the woman depicted in the photograph
would arrive home from school a few hours later
and swiftly call his dad, who arrived shortly after.
The father would then call the cops to the scene,
which was far more upsetting than what was shared online.
They found the woman in her room
with blankets covering her and pillow cases over her head.
On the pillow case was her ID
with the word "Dead" written on it.
After the medics arrived at the scene
and confirmed that the woman was dead,
the sheriff deputy and detectives
searched the rest of the apartment.
They found a framed photo on the bedroom wall
with the words "She killed me first" written across them.
The window blinds of the room were also down,
and written on the window was the phrase "Bad news."
As for the woman herself,
it appeared as if she had been brutally beaten.
But there were also strange words written across her body,
similar to the words written across the apartment.
So the investigation began
with one clear and obvious suspect,
the woman's boyfriend, David Kalac.
He was missing along with the woman's Ford Focus.
A short time later,
the detectives recover photos from Kalac's phone
of the woman lying on her bedroom floor dead.
This was pretty conclusive evidence.
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A short later,
the detectives recover photos from Kalac's phone
of the woman lying on her bedroom floor dead.
This was pretty conclusive evidence.
Texts from Kalac's phone were then made to his employer,
stating that he had done something bad.
He also messaged a friend
that he had effed up really bad last night
and would be in trouble.
Then he subsequently turned off his phone
to avoid being tracked.
Security footage from the day after
found Kalac pawning a laptop around 1:00 PM,
then going to a nearby store to purchase vodka.
After that, he stopped by a Walmart at around 2:30,
and security footage showed him purchasing
a BB pistol and ammunition.
You might remember from earlier
that in the anonymous posts on 4chan,
the author wrote that he bought a BB gun
to attempt a suicide by cop.
The BB gun Kalac purchased
was a replica of a Beretta-style gun.
Kalac then sat in the Walmart parking lot
and uploaded the photos to 4chan
along with his string of disturbing posts.
After that, he would drive to Portland, Oregon
and visit a local bar.
Later that same evening,
police would spot the missing gold Ford Focus
with Kalac behind the wheel.
A high-speed chase ensued
with Kalac managing to escape
by driving into oncoming traffic.
The possibility of a civilian casualty
caused the cops to stop their chase.
Later that same evening,
police would spot the missing gold Ford Focus
abandoned in a parking lot.
At around 8:45 PM that night, Kalac would turn himself in
at a transit center in Wilsonville, Oregon.
In the woods nearby from which Kalac emerged,
the police would find a box spring
with the words "Dave's last stand" written on it
in the same style as the messages in the apartment.
They also found a note that said, "I killed blank.
I strangled her with my hands,
then a shoelace.
I had no reason other than I was drunk
and she pissed me off.
Running from the cops was so fun."
David Kalac would be charged with first-degree murder,
theft of a motor vehicle,
and second-degree possession of stolen property.
During the trial, Kalac's defense did not argue the case
that he was the one responsible for killing the woman.
However, when it came time
to answer for his actions of the murder
and the subsequent decisions made,
he claimed that he had no recollection of them.
In fact, he claimed to remember only a few details
from the days preceding the murder,
like texting his boss that he'll see him in the news
and a quote, unquote exhilarating experience
during the police chase.
When it came to the police chase
and the BB gun itself though,
Kalac said that he must have been able to formulate a plan
despite not remembering the actual events.
His defense would argue that Kalac suffered
from an organic brain syndrome caused by alcohol,
and, therefore, the murder could not have been premeditated.
The jury, of course, did not see it this way,
primarily due to the lack for remorse shown by Kalac
in both the online posts
and the messages he wrote in various location.
In addition to this,
the crimes committed involved domestic violence convictions.
This resulted in a sentence of 82 years in prison for Kalac
which was far beyond his offender score standard range
originally estimated at around 40 years.
At the end of the day,
Kalac showed no signs of remorse in his 4chan posts
and not many until he was actually in custody.
As for the strange 4chan posts,
they were taken down after just a few hours
by the site itself.
However, in the short time it was up,
many archives of it were made.
I think it is safe to assume though
that after the viewers of the thread realized
that they were the first to witness footage of a murder,
they were shocked.
I wish I could say
that this case is one that has some sort of happy ending.
However, that is simply not true.
It is deeply saddening situation
that resulted out of someone's heartless actions.
The most perplexing part of it all
seems to be how Kalac claimed
he did not have any recollection of the posts made to 4chan
while also admitting that it was him that made them.
Of course, this was likely just part of his defense.
This case is quite a strange one
and an eerie example of a mysterious set of posts
on a website notorious for made-up stories
that actually turned out to be telling exactly the truth.
Revisiting this set of online posts
with the information that these events were real
makes them even more eerie and disturbing.
From the blunt way of speaking Kalac had,
the sarcastic responses,
it is truly a story that seems to be straight
out of a fiction novel.
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