For two years, the serial swatter "Torswats" called in fake school shootings across the US, scrambling police, locking down schools, terrorizing hundreds of communities.
This is the untold story of his swatting rampage and the private eye who tracked him down. https://www.wired.com/school-swatting-torswats-brad-dennis/
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Working with @dmehro, who chased this story for 2+ years, we pieced together Torswats' calls, obtained audio of them, spoke to victims and emergency dispatchers traumatized by his deceptions—and tell the story of Brad Dennis, the detective who cracked the case.
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After approaching Torswats undercover, Dennis gave the FBI leads on online accounts tied to his real identity, 17-year old Alan Filion.
Yet the FBI took months after that to search Filion's home and close to a year to arrest him, even as he carried out hundreds of swattings.
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In one 48 hour period, for instance, Filion swatted dozens of schools across the state of Washington, crossing counties off a map as he hit schools in each one, posted screenshots to Telegram while mocking victims.
All after the FBI knew his name.
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