Important thing to mention we’re in the EU, not in the US.
So basically the above. Won’t dox myself but there are pictures uploaded with the names of the women, the pictures were taken in private, some of these pictures were taken when my girlfriend was alone with the person. There are also a lot of pictures of women taken secretly. There are also details mentioned about e.g. the flats of women or other details that you can only know if you know the people. There also photoshopped pictures where throats are slit and there are very explicit murder + rape fantasies written out.
Right now we have two possible explanations
- It is the person we suspect it is
- Someone who knows the person and is part of our friend circle has hacked the iCloud of the person we suspect it is.
Besides going to the police is there anything we can do about this? My fear is that our national police is too incompetent to deal with this.
Do the other women know? Maybe (you and) your girlfriend should warn them, at the very least to file police reports so the police might actually bother.
Assuming the website they’re hosted in is relatively normal, you can still contact the site owners. There’s a good chance the images will be taken down regardless. You can also have Google (and probably other search engines) to hide these results when searching for your girlfriend’s name so people who look her up aren’t confronted with murder plots.
However, if this stuff gets taken down before the police get off their arses, you may end up with a case with “no proof”, so make sure to collect the evidence before that.
I have no idea if it’s smart to confront the person you suspect or not, but if he’s part of your extended friend group, that may be the only way to get them to stop barring the justice system intervening.
What options for personal protection you have vary country by country (and self defence may be criminal if excessive violence is used even if you are attacked), but self defence courses are probably not a bad idea. A simple door/window alarm and/or security cameras are probably legal everywhere, and can help prove to the police that there’s an actual threat if someone starts skulking or even warn you if they break in while you’re asleep. Owning a gun won’t help you if you’re snuck up on in your sleep, after all. Plus, even if this turns out to just be a disturbed sexual deviant who has no plans of hurting anyone in real life, those investments may pay themselves back later in life.
The potential psychopath has “”“helpfully”“” written down what he thinks the crimes would look like, so you can take advantage of that when you pick your self defence strategy.
Yeah there’s now a group of like 10 women who are all part of the same circle and who are affected by this. One of the affected women reached out to the person and the profile on the snuff page got deleted shortly after, she still believes he just got hacked. We have a security camera at the door already but my girlfriend is understandbly worried about being alone outside now. We believe we’re safe at home currently which is good, but we will definitely need to take self-defense classes.
What was the response during the reaching out? Did she reach out in person, or what? Aside from the page going down (what was the precise timing on that?), what was his response?