Butcher mentioned Atomwaffen Division and the Order of Nine Angles as lasting influences, and also revealed the nature of MKU’s “alliance” with 764, which was forged by users “Xor” and “Kush” (both still unidentified). While he mocked 764 for not committing enough violence in person, Butcher said the two groups “might as well still be partners because they keep clearing their own path by making weaklings kill themselves.”
According to victims of 764 members, “Tobbz,” a troubled German youth convicted of killing an elderly woman and stabbing a man in 2022, was on 764’s original Discord server alongside Almeida and Bradley Cadenhead, 764’s teenage founder who is serving decades in a Texas prison for child sexual abuse crimes. Tobbz also had a tattoo of a Tempel ov Blood trident and had joined MKU, Der Spiegel and Recorder reported.
The second number of Drums of Tophetwhose authors describe as “designed for the dark warriors of a doom now impending on the near horizon,” continues in the same vein with Q309, a self-described sadomasochistic and occult “art project” that borders on CSAM and prominently features themes of the Order of Nine Angles and a lengthy interview with a founder of the Satanic Front, a Southern occult organization.
In communications with a former Tempel ov Blood member seen by WIRED, Sutter openly discussed watching CSAM with other members of his nexion and seemed obsessed with conspiracy theories such as Monarch Project involving child abuse. The former ToB member also noted Sutter’s fascination with the case of Belgian serial killer, rapist and pedophile Marc Dutroux. Shortly before taking Agony’s Point Press X account offline in March of this year, the account posted a photo of an occult altar that featured a bloodstained photo of Dutroux alongside human and animal skeletal remains, as well as a severed doll head inked with lightning bolts and a swastika, over a flag with a Nazi skull and the Nazi motto “My place is my truth” (my honor is my loyalty).
On several occasions over the past year, the Agony’s Point Press account on X posted videos and photos highlighting 764 and its offshoots, particularly MKU and the group’s growing interest in the Order of Nine Angles. The account also routinely posted about 764 and com, occasionally adopting a faux-journalistic tone to whitewash posts from CSAM’s distribution and extortion network. Around Christmas 2023, @agonyspoint posted a graphic of the MKU hockey goalie mask insignia with a ToB trident emblazoned on the forehead.
All of this occurred as the FBI’s investigation into 764 expanded and new arrests were made, including those of alleged member Kyle Spitze and Richard Densmore, who pleaded guilty As of mid-July, they were in early 2024. There is also an active FBI investigation into MKU that stems directly from its ties to 764, according to a law enforcement source with knowledge of the matter.
Earlier this year, the Agony’s Point account returned to focusing on older Martinet Press material, with several threads promoting Tile and Iron gatestwo books that Sutter presented to Atomwaffen Division as required reading that celebrate child abuse and rape.
“A pact with the devil”
The FBI has never addressed Sutter’s role in fostering violent right-wing ideology. But the repercussions of Sutter’s actions over the past decade are a feature, not a flaw, of U.S. law enforcement’s use of confidential informants, says Alexandra Natapoff, a professor at Harvard Law School who has studied the topic extensively for more than 15 years. “The market for informants is built on this tacit, uncomfortable understanding that sometimes the cure can be worse than the disease,” Natapoff tells WIRED. By using people with criminal or extremist backgrounds to infiltrate hard-to-penetrate environments like gangs, organized crime, or terrorist groups, she says, the U.S. government rewards those people for continuing to swim in the same waters.
“Implicit in that agreement is the well-understood and avoidable phenomenon that these people are going to commit criminal acts,” Natapoff said. “The FBI has authorized criminal and unauthorized activity by confidential human sources, and the very fact that those guidelines include those definitions is an acknowledgement of the nature of informants.”