Sam Hyde | |
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Birth name | Samuel Whitcomb Hyde |
Born | April 16, 1985 (age 35) Fall River, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Medium | Stand-up, television, YouTube |
Nationality | American |
Education |
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Years active | 2007 – present |
Genres | Sketch comedy, anti-comedy, political satire, shock humor, surreal humor, post-irony |
Subject(s) | American politics, pop culture |
Samuel Whitcomb Hyde (born April 16, 1985) is an American comedian, writer, performance artist and actor. He co-created the sketch comedy group Million Dollar Extreme (MDE) with Charls Carroll and Nick Rochefort.
Genre Roulette is what the name suggests: A single work that switches between distinct story genres, seemingly at random, e.g. A TV show switches from Comedy then Romance into Horror in just one episode. As it's hard enough to write well in one. The kidnapping and murder of Yingying Zhang(章莹颖) occurred in Urbana, Illinois, United States on June 9, 2017 when Zhang, a visiting Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, was abducted by Brendt Allen Christensen, a Champaign resident and former physics graduate student at the university. I have never or seen CP or 4Chan and never do! If you ever see CP make a CyberTipLine Report to the National Centre For Missing and Exploited Children. That's All, I just stay clear anyway, mosey my way around those threads, and move on to the interesting stuff. Since 2015, Hyde has been frequently misreported as the perpetrator of numerous mass shootings and terrorist attacks by Internet trolls on websites such as 4chan and Twitter. 10 14 The hoaxes, which typically included photos of Hyde brandishing a semi-automatic weapon, reappeared so often on social media that The New York Times. Armin Meiwes (German:; born 1 December 1961) is a German former computer repair technician who achieved international notoriety for killing and eating a voluntary victim in 2001, whom he had found via the Internet.
Hyde is known for his involvement in several public pranks and internet hoaxes. His style of humor has been described as post-ironic, as he regularly blurs the distinction between himself and his characters.[1] Hyde's transgressive style has also garnered public controversy and he has been frequently associated with the alt-right. He has supported white supremacist causes, including monetary donations to The Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin for legal fees,[2] support for conspiracy theories,[3][4] and mocking the Holocaust.[5]
Life and career
After graduating from Wilton High School, Hyde enrolled at Carnegie Mellon University for one year before transferring to the Rhode Island School of Design, where he graduated in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts in film, animation and video.[6]
In mid-2014, Hyde started a web series titled Kickstarter TV, where he would find projects on Kickstarter and harshly ridicule both the projects and the people who made them.
In August 2016, Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace, a television program Hyde co-wrote and acted in along with the other members of MDE, premiered on Adult Swim.[7] Four months later, it was announced that World Peace would not be renewed for a second season. Hyde attributed the show's cancellation to his vocal support for Donald Trump.[8]
In a December 2016 interview with The Hollywood Reporter in the aftermath of his series' cancellation, when questioned if he held a bias towards minorities, Hyde replied that he was 'probably as racist or as biased as the average regular white guy or the average regular black guy'.[3]
In 2017, Hyde reportedly pledged $5,000 towards the legal defense fund of Andrew Anglin, the founder and editor of white supremacist website The Daily Stormer.[2] The Southern Poverty Law Center sued Anglin for allegedly organizing a 'troll storm' against a Jewish woman in Montana. When Matt Pearce of the Los Angeles Times questioned Hyde about the donation, Hyde asked Pearce if he was Jewish and went on to say that $5,000 was 'nothing' to him. Hyde also stated: 'Don't worry so much about money. Worry about if people start deciding to kill reporters. That's a quote. For the reason why, you can say I want reporters to know I make more money than them, especially Matt Pearce.'[2] Knaben the pirates bay.
Pranks
Hyde lampooned the American animefandom in 2012 when he delivered a spurious presentation titled 'Samurai Swordplay in a Digital Age' under the pseudonym 'Master Kenchiro Ichiimada' at a convention in Vermont. During the presentation, an MDE affiliate blocked the exit to bar attendees from leaving Hyde's hour-long performance.[9] Similarly in 2013, Hyde, while dressed in a maroon-colored sweatsuit and clad in hoplite-esque breastplate and greaves, delivered a prank TEDx talk titled '2070 Paradigm Shift' at Drexel University.[10] The talk, described by Forbes as a satiric impersonation of a 'Brooklyn tech hipster,' received significant media attention.[11][10] When asked about the intent of the prank, Hyde stated his dislike for TED talks, calling them 'really self-congratulatory.'[12]In 2014, Hyde started a fake Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund the creation of a 'pony dating simulator' for bronies, the adult male fans of the children's television show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.[10] The Kickstarter page said the simulator would comprise 'a journey that spans multiple continents' and include 'deep RPG elements.'[13] Devotees of the show who ostensibly took the project seriously pledged a total of $4,161 to the phony fundraiser before Hyde cancelled it.[10][13]
Shooting hoaxes
Sam Hyde in 2016. This and similar photos have been used by internet trolls when reporting Hyde as the perpetrator of mass shootings and terrorist attacks.
Since 2015, Hyde has been frequently misreported as the perpetrator of numerous mass shootings and terrorist attacks by Internet trolls on websites such as 4chan and Twitter.[10][14] The hoaxes, which typically included photos of Hyde brandishing a semi-automatic weapon, reappeared so often on social media that The New York Times characterized 'Sam Hyde is the shooter' as 'an identifiable meme.'[15]The first instance of the prank was the Umpqua Community College shooting. CNN mistakenly included Hyde's image on their coverage of the shooting.[16] Hyde has also been erroneously blamed for many other shootings.[10][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
Publications
Books
- How to BOMB the U. S. Gov't: The OFFICIAL Primo(tm) Strategy Guide to the Collapse of Western Civilization, by Sam Hyde, Nick Rochefort, Charls 'Coors' Carroll. COM98 LLC, 2016. ISBN0997917601 / ISBN978-0997917604.
Filmography
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Television
- Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace (2016, 6 episodes) – various, screenwriter, producer
References
- ^Television (December 12, 2016). 'Million Dollar Extreme's Show Is Collateral Damage Of Trump's Victory'. The Federalist. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
- ^ abcPearce, Matt (June 6, 2017). 'Neo-Nazi website raises $150,000 to fight Southern Poverty Law Center lawsuit'. Los Angeles Times. ISSN0458-3035. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
- ^ ab'Sam Hyde Speaks: Meet the Man Behind Adult Swim's Canceled 'Alt-Right' Comedy Show (Exclusive)'. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 15, 2018.
- ^'The Battle Over Adult Swim's Alt-Right TV Show'. The Atlantic. November 17, 2016. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
- ^'Gavin McInnes is Threatening to Sue WSN. Can He?'. February 7, 2017.
- ^Bernstein, Joseph (August 25, 2016). 'The Alt-Right Has Its Very Own TV Show On Adult Swim'. BuzzFeed News. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
- ^'Adult Swim Announces New Shows, Specials, and Pilots from John Kraskinski, Brett Gelman, Dan Harmon, and More'. Splitsider. Retrieved October 12, 2016.
- ^''Million Dollar Extreme' creators say Adult Swim canceled their show for supporting Donald Trump'. Fox News. December 12, 2016. Retrieved December 30, 2016.
- ^'GamerGate's Archvillain Is Really A Trolling Sketch Comedian'. BuzzFeed. BuzzFeed. Retrieved July 17, 2017.
- ^ abcdef'How 4chan Tricked The Internet Into Believing This Comedian Is A Mass Shooter'. Forbes. Retrieved October 12, 2016.
- ^'Comedian Gives Ridiculous Prank TED Talk'. Business Insider. Retrieved October 12, 2016.
- ^'WATCH: TEDx Drexel Got Pranked This Weekend'. Philadelphia. October 7, 2013. Retrieved November 18, 2016.
- ^ ab'Dark Skyes -- an EPIC brony dating sim (Canceled)'. Kickstarter. Kickstarter PBC. Retrieved June 26, 2017.
- ^ ab'Don't Believe Any Breaking News That Names This Comedian As A Mass Shooter'. BuzzFeed. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
- ^ abBromwich, Jonah (November 6, 2017). 'Sam Hyde and Other Hoaxes: False Information Trails Texas Shooting'. The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved November 14, 2017.
- ^ abBell, Chris (October 2, 2017). 'Las Vegas: The fake photos shared after tragedies'. BBC News.
- ^Cox, Danny. 'Sam Hyde: Gunman Possibly Identified In Mass Shooting At Pulse Nightclub In Orlando Being Ruled A Hoax'. Inquisitr. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
- ^Smith IV, Jack. 'Neither Robert Kinnison Nor Sam Hyde Killed Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana'. mic.com. Mic. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
- ^Smith, Anthony. 'Piedmont Park Hanging: No, Sam Hyde Did Not Lynch a Black Man in the Atlanta Park'. mic.com. Mic. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
- ^Mezzofiore, Gianluca (June 19, 2017). 'Never believe any breaking report on Twitter naming this comedian as the attacker'. Mashable.
- ^'WATCH: Rep. Vicente Gonzalez Says Sam Hyde Is Sutherland Springs Shooter'. Heavy. Heavy, Inc. November 5, 2017. Retrieved November 14, 2017.
- ^'Fake news on YouTube shooting spreads, despite recent efforts to clamp down on misinformation'. CBS News. Retrieved April 6, 2018.
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(Redirected from David Alan Gore and Fred Waterfield)
Born | August 21, 1953 Florida, US |
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Died | April 12, 2012 (aged 58) |
Cause of death | Lethal injection |
Other names | The Killing Cousins The eyes of the devil |
Criminal status | Deceased |
Conviction(s) | First-degree murder (6 counts) (March 16, 1984) |
Criminal penalty | Death (1 murder charge) Life imprisonment (5 murder charges) (March 16, 1984) |
Details | |
Victims | 6 |
Span of crimes | 1981–1983 |
Country | United States |
State(s) | Florida |
July 26, 1983 |
Fred Waterfield | |
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Born | September 29, 1952 (age 68) |
Other names | The Killing Cousins |
Criminal status | Alive |
Conviction(s) | Murder |
Criminal penalty | Two consecutive life sentences |
Details | |
Victims | 6 |
Span of crimes | 1981–1983 |
Country | United States |
State(s) | Florida |
July 26, 1983 |
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David Alan Gore (August 21, 1953 – April 12, 2012) was an American serial killer who confessed to, and was convicted of, six murders in Vero Beach and Indian River County, Florida in the 1980s. Gore was executed by lethal injection in 2012, having been on Florida's death row for 28 years.
Gore had an accomplice, his cousin Fred Waterfield, and the pair were dubbed the 'Killing Cousins'.[1] Waterfield was convicted of two murders, and is currently serving two consecutive life sentences.
In 1976 (prior to their committing any murders), police jailed and questioned both Gore and Waterfield after Angela Hommell Austin (age 20) accused them of raping her at gunpoint. The cousins insisted the sex was consensual, and they were not charged in her case.[2] Gore targeted at least four additional women who escaped with their lives.[2]
Background[edit]
David Alan Gore was born on August 21, 1953 in Florida. When he was a teenager, he was fired from his first job as a gas station attendant after his boss found a hole that allowed Gore to look into the women's bathroom.[1] Gore was an auxiliary sheriff's deputy and used his badge to commit some of his crimes.[1] Gore also worked as a caretaker of a citrus grove that provided a secluded area in which to rape and murder his victims.[3]
Fred Waterfield was born on September 29, 1952 in New Jersey.[4] He is a former high school football player.[1]
Gore and Waterfield came to an arrangement, namely that Gore would spot, stalk, and secure potential victims for himself and Waterfield, in exchange for cash payments from Waterfield.[3]
Victims[edit]
Their first rape victim was Waterfield's sister. Gore helped hold down the victim and watched as Waterfield raped his own sister.[citation needed]
Hsiang Huang Ling and Ying Hua Ling[edit]
Gore's and Waterfield's first two murder victims were Ying Hua Ling (age 17) and her mother Hsiang Huang Ling (age 48). On February 19, 1981, Gore accosted Ying Ling and brandished his auxiliary police badge to lure the teenager into his truck, after which he drove her to her own home. Once there, he encountered Hsiang Ling and kidnapped both women. Gore later claimed that the mother, tied to a tree, slowly choked to death while he and Waterfield raped the daughter. The pair dismembered the two women and stuffed their body parts into oil drums, which they buried.
Judith Kay Daley[edit]
The pair's third victim was Judith Daley (age 35), a former Fort Pierce resident visiting from California. On July 15, 1981, Gore disabled Daley's car at the beach, and then offered her a ride to the nearest telephone. Gore drove Daley to a secluded area and met Waterfield, whereupon both men raped Daley. Gore claimed to have disposed of Daley's body in a swamp.[3]
One week after Daley's murder, Gore unsuccessfully attempted to abduct a teenage girl using his auxiliary badge. The girl's father filed a complaint, and Gore was stripped of his badge. Days later, police spotted Gore hiding in the back seat of a woman's car, carrying a police scanner, handcuffs, and a pistol. Gore was convicted of armed trespassing and sentenced to five years in prison, but was released on parole in March 1983.[3]
Barbara Ann Byer and Angelica LaVallee[edit]
Samick kr660. On May 20, 1983, Gore and Waterfield encountered Orlando hitchhikers Angelica LaVallee and Barbara Ann Byer (both age 14) and picked them up. Gore and Waterfield raped, killed and dismembered both girls. These are the only two crimes for which Waterfield was convicted; he was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for the two murders.
Lynn Elliott and Regan Martin[edit]
Lynn Elliott (age 17) and Regan Martin (age 14), students at Vero Beach High School, were hitchhiking to Wabasso Beach when Gore and Waterfield picked them up on July 26, 1983. They took both girls to a house owned by Gore's parents. Waterfield soon left, spooked by having seen his sister during the drive. Gore later told police that he bound and placed the girls in different rooms prior to raping them.[5]
As he was assaulting Martin, Lynn Elliot—nude, with her hands tied behind her back—escaped to the driveway, until she lost her footing. According to Gore, 'I kept running after her then she tripped and fell and then I caught up to her'.[5] Gore told police 'I started dragging her back and she was trying, like, resisting, fighting me, so I threw her to the ground. That's when I shot her in the head'.[5]
Gore shot her twice at point-blank range only to realize that a neighbor boy riding his bicycle had witnessed the entire incident.[6] The neighbor boy alerted police, which led to a 90-minute standoff between Gore and law enforcement. Cops arrested Gore and rescued Martin, who was found in the attic naked, handcuffed, and with electrical cords tied around her legs.[5]
On December 7, 1983, Gore led police to the remains of three of his six murder victims. These victims were Barbara Ann Byer, Hsiang Huang Ling and her daughter, Ying Hua Ling. He also admitted to killing three girls and two women.
Case timeline[edit]
On August 10, 1983, a grand jury charges Gore with first-degree murder with two counts of kidnapping and two counts of sexual battery.
On January 6, 1984, Gore's trial is moved from Vero Beach to St. Petersburg, Florida. Two months after on March 16, 1984 the jury convicts him of first-degree murder and after an 11-1 vote he receives the death sentence.
On August 22, 1985, the Supreme Court affirms Gore's first-degree murder conviction and death penalty.
On January 21, 1985, Waterfield was convicted of the murders of Byer and LaVellee, receiving two consecutive life sentences.[1]
On March 3, 1988, Governor Bob Martinez signs Gore's death warrant.
On July 5, 2007, the Florida Supreme Court confirms Gore's death sentence.
Death[edit]
Gore was executed by lethal injection at 6:19 p.m. on Thursday, April 12, 2012, having exhausted all legal appeals. As Gore lay strapped to a gurney in the death chamber, he said: 'I'm sorry. I've had remorse..I'm not the man I was back then. I don't fear death.'[7]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
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- ^ abcdePark, Sunju, Fong, Cho, Zhang, Gritz, Milan, Herzlich, Gore, Ashley, Chuck, Alan G., Hyung, Cheng, David C., Gibran, Alexandra A., Patrick, Morganti, Roy S. 'David Alan Gore 'The Killing Cousins''(PDF). maamodt. Department of Psychology Radford University. Retrieved February 20, 2015.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
- ^ abHolsman, Melissa E. (April 9, 2012). 'Gore killed 6 women, but targeted more than a dozen for kidnap, rape, court files show'. tcpalm.com. Treasure Coast Newspapers. Retrieved July 4, 2015.
- ^ abcdNewton, Michael (February 1, 2006). The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. Infobase Publishing. ISBN9780816069873.
- ^'Fred Waterfield'(PDF). radford.edu. Archived from the original(PDF) on April 29, 2015. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
- ^ abcdHolsman, Melissa E. (April 9, 2012). 'David Alan Gore: A killer with no remorse'. Palm Beach Post. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
- ^Whisper (April 9, 2012). 'Serial Killer David Gore Cant Be Executed Fast Enough, Bragged About Killing Kids'. dreamindemon. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
- ^'Florida executes serial killer David Alan Gore after 28 years'. Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
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