It is a story that could inspire more than one. In the United States, twin sisters, Madison and Christine Conradis managed to convict a serial cyberstalker, tracing his identity on the Internet thanks to the clues left on social networks.
For a decade, Madison and Christine Conradis have been victims of revenge porn Christopher Buonocorewho posted intimate photos on the image sharing network 4chanand threatened them through anonymous accounts.
Ten years during which the two sisters searched in vain for the police, who refused to consider their complaint. Finally, thanks to their perseverance, last December he was sentenced to 15 years in prisonas has long been reported by the Washington Post.
The twins knew their stalker
Cristoforo Buonocore knew the two sisters well, as they were companions at the University. He was even invited to the wedding of one of them. While, under several false identities on the Internet, the man was at the origin of a harassment campaign that lasted many yearsposting and reposting intimate pictures of these twins thousands of times, but other women too.
But if he was convicted, it was only thanks to perseverance of the two sisters.
In September 2018, after already several years of cyberbullying, the sisters filed a civil lawsuit against “John Doe” (the equivalent of a lawsuit against X in the United States, as at the time the sisters did not yet know the identity of the harasser) for invasion of privacy and intentional emotional distress. They then aimed to assign 4chan and get the IP addresses of the famous John Doe. But their complaint was denied by police.
An identity rediscovered thanks to a hunt on social networks
It was then that the sisters tracked down their stalker with the help of details which may seem insignificant: they observed the punctuation and spelling on the posts of different 4chan users, in order to detect similarities between different accounts and, above all, to see if their stalker also suffered the same fate.
Madison and Christine Conradis then realized that there seemed to be a person behind the revenge porn, who had the same username as their stalker. four other women. Then, searching for them on Facebook, they later discovered that they all have a friend in common: Cristoforo Buonocore.
The sisters then researched who the other four victims were. One was Buonocore’s ex-girlfriend, another was his family member, the third was his childhood friend and the fourth was his ex-girlfriend. For some, he posted pictures from when they were on the 4chan network. minor.
Uncooperative police
But even in the face of this accumulation of evidence, the twins’ complaint is one again rejected by the police. With the help of a lawyer friend, Christine Conradis wrote a paper 59 pages explaining the whole case and collecting the evidence collected, managing to circumvent the legal restrictions for which the police services refused their complaint.
The other victims of Cristoforo Buonocore having adhered to this request, the case was eventually turned over to the FBI. It was after a lengthy legal process that Christopher Buonocore was sentenced in federal court to 15 years in prison ea pay a fine to all its victims.
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Source: Madmoizelle
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