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A Louisiana man has been sentenced to 45 YEARS behind bars after being impressed by Jeffrey Dahmer to kidnap and homicide homosexual males.
The 21-year-old Lafayette resident Chance Seneca was described as having a “months-long scheme to kidnap and murder gay men” in keeping with the Department of Justice on Wednesday. The courtroom later concluded he “intentionally targeted the victim and other gay men because of their gender and sexual orientation.” Disgusting.
The story of how all this got here to be is stomach-churning and the main points are graphic. Continue studying at your individual discretion.
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An 18-year-old boy named Holden White was Seneca’s supposed homicide sufferer. He met Seneca on Grindr in 2020 earlier than agreeing to fulfill him in particular person. According to the DoJ, the 21-year-old drove out to the sufferer’s residence, held a gun to him, and compelled him into handcuffs. He then used “several methods” to aim to homicide the teenager. It solely will get extra disturbing from there, as the discharge mentioned:
“Believing that H.W. was dead, Seneca then attempted to dismember him.”
Just terrible… But unbelievably Holden survived!
The teen spoke to The Acadiana Advocate in 2021 and detailed what he remembered from the horrific scene, saying he awoke bare in a tub with Seneca making an attempt to dismember him after blacking out for some time:
“He is in the process of doing my left wrist. He was slicing it … and it was very, very hard. It was to the point that he was basically trying to cut off my hands. He was just staring at me with a fearful look in his face, like a ‘I just did this?’ look, I was laying in the bathtub, naked, bleeding out, the water red and cold, and I remember thinking, ‘Well, this is it.’ The last words I said to myself were just ‘Stay calm,’ over and over and over in my head I was just repeating to myself to stay calm.”
Absolutely horrific. And it sounds all an excessive amount of just like the legal’s inspiration…
Seneca ended up giving up and calling the police. White was taken to the hospital, the place he lay in a coma for 3 days. Ultimately he survived the assault, however not with out getting some critical accidents and PTSD from the scenario. He advised the outlet every week earlier than the sentencing his left hand and a finger on his proper hand are utterly numb, his cranium is delicate to weight, and he suffers from nervousness. The sufferer pushed for the courtroom to provide a life sentence, saying:
“[I’m] scared for me and for other future victims he might harm. I’m scared an 18-year-old, like I was, will have their life forever changed by a date.”
Seneca even learn aloud a letter in courtroom, claiming he’s a “caring person” with no “violent bone” in his physique. Uh… all proof on the contrary?
Via a DOJ launch, this self-proclaimed nonviolent man was already plotting to kill once more:
“After his arrest, Seneca admitted that he had planned to continue murdering gay men until he was caught or killed. Seneca acknowledged that he kidnapped and attempted to murder H.W. in order to satisfy a compulsive murder-fantasy. Seneca had become fixated with the idea of killing gay men, and this fascination led him to spend months designing a murder-kidnapping scheme that mirrored the murders of gay men committed by the notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Seneca intentionally targeted gay men, as Dahmer had done. Seneca had also intended to eat and preserve the bodies of his victims, as Dahmer had done.”
“As Dahmer had done.” Chilling. Especially in mild of the controversy of the Netflix sequence (pictured above, inset) being accused of glorifying the killer.
FBI Special Agent Daniel English defined Seneca has a “fascination” with Dahmer and even named his pet rabbit after him, in addition to believed the serial killer wasn’t “a bad guy.” An earlier launch from the DoJ mentioned Seneca deliberate to comply with within the footsteps of Dahmer by dismembering and protecting “parts of the victim’s body as trophies, mementos and food.”
Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division mentioned partially in an announcement that it is a grim reminder of prejudices the LGBTQ+ group faces:
“The facts of this case are truly shocking, and the defendant’s decision to specifically target gay men is a disturbing reminder of the unique prejudices and dangers facing the LGBTQ+ community today.”
Brandon B. Brown, US Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana added in an announcement of his personal:
“No one should ever be subjected to the type of horrendous actions that this defendant inflicted upon the victim in this case. The victim never thought that he would find himself falling prey to a predator in such a way. Hate crimes such as this are a top priority for the Department and this office, and we take these kind of cases very seriously.”
Both Clarke and Brown confused the significance of web security to remind everybody all the time be cautious when assembly folks on-line. Seneca’s federal sentencing leaves him with one other courtroom date for his state fees of tried second diploma homicide. It’s secure to say he received’t be seeing the sunshine of day for a really very long time…
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[Image via Lafayette Sheriff’s Department/Netflix]
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