David Kalac: The 4chan Killer

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In November 2014, a post went up on 4chan's /b/ board that showed a picture of a woman's battered, naked body. "Turns out," the user callously wrote, "its way harder to strangle someone to death than it looks on the movies."

"Check the news for port orchard Washington in a few hours," he added a few moments later. "Her son will be home from school soon. He'll find her, then call the cops."

Most of the people on the site thought it was , some calling it a "low-quality bait." But shortly after, the death of Amber Coplin was on the news, and the man who'd made the post—her boyfriend, David Kalac—wasn't lying.

It played out how he'd predicted. Coplin's 13-year-old son came home and found his mother's bloody and bruised body in her bedroom. Her face had been bashed in. Next to it, Kalac had placed her driver's license, with the word "dead" written over it. On a picture on the wall, he'd written, "She killed me first."

Kalac had promised 4chan that he'd commit "," but in the end, he lost his nerve. When the police found him, he gave himself up, too scared to face the fate he'd forced upon Amber Coplin.

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