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riversedge

(70,221 posts)
Tue Feb 14, 2023, 09:29 PM Feb 2023

Charlottesville Tiki Torcher Killed Himself Before Drug Smuggling Trial

Source: daily beast







Teddy Joseph Von Nukem, one of the most prominent faces lit by the glow of tiki torches in what became the lasting image of the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, killed himself as he was due to face criminal trial last month.

The 35-year-old skipped out on his first day of trial for a drug trafficking charge in Arizona on the morning of Jan. 30, according to court records. At the very moment a federal judge was issuing a warrant for his arrest, Von Nukem was actually still at his home in Missouri, where he had walked out in the snow behind the hay shed and shot himself.


The details were listed in an autopsy report obtained exclusively by The Daily Beast on Tuesday.

“Suicide notes were found at the scene, left for law enforcement and his children, however handwriting was somewhat inconsistent,” the coroner’s report states................

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His mind was warped!!


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Charlottesville Tiki Torcher Killed Himself Before Drug Smuggling Trial (Original Post) riversedge Feb 2023 OP
Hmmm...tots & pears...MF'er Enter stage left Feb 2023 #1
Any chance tRump might be expecting 'sane' Americans...... MyOwnPeace Feb 2023 #2
It's a start... Drum Feb 2023 #3
Republican verifies that republicans are the main abusers of fentanyl. keithbvadu2 Feb 2023 #4
Vance is going for it RussBLib Feb 2023 #27
He's building his cred to be Desantis' running mate. intheflow Feb 2023 #43
I'm glad he can no longer hurt people and do damage in the world... RockRaven Feb 2023 #5
Damage was already done. The Grand Illuminist Feb 2023 #19
Go fund me??? BidenRocks Feb 2023 #6
Coward SledDriver Feb 2023 #7
Perfectly said. The Grand Illuminist Feb 2023 #20
Well, if suicide was good enough Haggard Celine Feb 2023 #8
Maybe it's me, but he doesn't look like your typical 'illegal, Mexican drug carrier' smuggling sinkingfeeling Feb 2023 #9
Absolutely. +1. nt. Mc Mike Feb 2023 #42
This message was self-deleted by its author flying_wahini Feb 2023 #10
Nazi BlueWaveNeverEnd Feb 2023 #11
One thing's for sure... Mr. Evil Feb 2023 #12
Damn it Traildogbob Feb 2023 #24
He was apparently one of the good people on both sides. NT Beakybird Feb 2023 #13
Its a 3auld6phart Feb 2023 #14
Gee, that's too bad. He seemed like a real swell guy. Sky Jewels Feb 2023 #15
$215 - a piddling amount for such a risk. keithbvadu2 Feb 2023 #16
He wasted his life, bringing only misery with his presence. nt SunSeeker Feb 2023 #17
Damn shame CanonRay Feb 2023 #18
I do appreciate him saving us the cost of a trial. TNNurse Feb 2023 #21
oh well....at least he only off'd himself and not innocents, like his kids or wife. OAITW r.2.0 Feb 2023 #22
Dumbshit & who got Cha Feb 2023 #23
I'm not sure how I feel about this one. paleotn Feb 2023 #25
One less jackass in the world. sakabatou Feb 2023 #26
Who will replace him? dchill Feb 2023 #28
Molly Conger lives not far from me Yonnie3 Feb 2023 #29
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Feb 2023 #30
Gee, that's too bad. Talitha Feb 2023 #31
Here's a song to play at his funeral service. johnp3907 Feb 2023 #32
Not enough onions in the world. AZLD4Candidate Feb 2023 #33
That's so sad ornotna Feb 2023 #34
"Suicide notes were found at the scene, left for... his children" LudwigPastorius Feb 2023 #35
Oh no vercetti2021 Feb 2023 #36
Could somebody post the video "Tiki torch nazis" by Sandy and Richard Riccardi? niyad Feb 2023 #37
$215 to smuggle drugs worth many times that across the Mexican border. Demobrat Feb 2023 #38
Thoughtful of him to save us the expense of his trial and incarceration. niyad Feb 2023 #39
Gee whiz catbyte Feb 2023 #40
There's something here we're not considering jmowreader Feb 2023 #41
There's also door #3. Demobrat Feb 2023 #45
As to the second sentence...you're kidding, right? jmowreader Feb 2023 #50
Until the other mob got him alone. Demobrat Feb 2023 #51
Got to agree with this assessment. The Grand Illuminist Feb 2023 #48
I really, really want to know what was in his suicide notes. intheflow Feb 2023 #44
And nothing of value was lost liberaltrucker Feb 2023 #46
+++ llashram Feb 2023 #47
A guy who fancied himself a revolutionary dies like a coward Aristus Feb 2023 #49

MyOwnPeace

(16,926 posts)
2. Any chance tRump might be expecting 'sane' Americans......
Tue Feb 14, 2023, 09:33 PM
Feb 2023

to send 'Thoughts & Prayers?'

After all, there 'ARE' good people on both sides, right?

keithbvadu2

(36,806 posts)
4. Republican verifies that republicans are the main abusers of fentanyl.
Tue Feb 14, 2023, 09:35 PM
Feb 2023

Republican verifies that republicans are the main abusers of fentanyl.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216683046

https://www.newsweek.com/maga-voter-deaths-fentanyl-via-border-does-look-intentional-jd-vance-1702428

J.D. Vance’s claim that Biden is targeting ‘MAGA voters’ with fentanyl

“If you wanted to kill a bunch of MAGA voters in the middle of the heartland, how better than to target them and their kids with this deadly fentanyl? … It does look intentional. It’s like Joe Biden wants to punish the people who didn’t vote for him and opening up the floodgates to the border is one way to do it.”

RussBLib

(9,012 posts)
27. Vance is going for it
Tue Feb 14, 2023, 10:11 PM
Feb 2023

Be the asshole! Twist the truth!! Lie your ass off! Be the scummiest you can be!

intheflow

(28,474 posts)
43. He's building his cred to be Desantis' running mate.
Wed Feb 15, 2023, 11:33 AM
Feb 2023

So very, very glad I never bothered to read his book when everyone was raving over it. What an asshole.

RockRaven

(14,967 posts)
5. I'm glad he can no longer hurt people and do damage in the world...
Tue Feb 14, 2023, 09:35 PM
Feb 2023

That's all I have to say about that...

Well, maybe one more thing:

Bye, Felicia.

sinkingfeeling

(51,457 posts)
9. Maybe it's me, but he doesn't look like your typical 'illegal, Mexican drug carrier' smuggling
Tue Feb 14, 2023, 09:38 PM
Feb 2023

fentanyl across that "open" southern border.

Response to riversedge (Original post)

Traildogbob

(8,739 posts)
24. Damn it
Tue Feb 14, 2023, 10:06 PM
Feb 2023

I was so excited to say this. Ya beat me to it. But his replacement will never be Jewish, just another white idiot.

OAITW r.2.0

(24,504 posts)
22. oh well....at least he only off'd himself and not innocents, like his kids or wife.
Tue Feb 14, 2023, 10:01 PM
Feb 2023

Surprised he didn't AR-15 a bunch of people in the process of suiciding himself..

paleotn

(17,913 posts)
25. I'm not sure how I feel about this one.
Tue Feb 14, 2023, 10:07 PM
Feb 2023

And I thought it was just "Mexicans" smuggling drugs over the southern border. Heard that plain as day on Fux News.

Yonnie3

(17,441 posts)
29. Molly Conger lives not far from me
Tue Feb 14, 2023, 10:28 PM
Feb 2023

She works very hard on OSI to identify the extremists. She was doing this way before the Unite the Right rally. https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom

Her wiener dogs, Buck and Otto are a trip to watch heading down the street. I've even got to give them a scritch.

Response to riversedge (Original post)

LudwigPastorius

(9,145 posts)
35. "Suicide notes were found at the scene, left for... his children"
Tue Feb 14, 2023, 11:50 PM
Feb 2023

I don't know what is worse, kids without a father, or kids with a father who is a fentanyl-peddling, hate-filled Nazi.

I'm thinking his children are better off in the long run. Surely the world in general is better off.

Demobrat

(8,978 posts)
38. $215 to smuggle drugs worth many times that across the Mexican border.
Wed Feb 15, 2023, 12:24 AM
Feb 2023

What’s Spanish for “Very stupid white boy”?

Oh, wait. “Very stupid dead white boy”.

jmowreader

(50,557 posts)
41. There's something here we're not considering
Wed Feb 15, 2023, 02:25 AM
Feb 2023

He didn’t kill himself for being a drug mule. He killed himself - if he wasn’t whacked - because he has…well, had…names people don’t want to get out, which would happen if this individual got in front of a prosecutor.

Demobrat

(8,978 posts)
45. There's also door #3.
Wed Feb 15, 2023, 01:32 PM
Feb 2023

He killed himself because he was afraid to go to prison. No mob to hide behind in there.

jmowreader

(50,557 posts)
50. As to the second sentence...you're kidding, right?
Wed Feb 15, 2023, 03:49 PM
Feb 2023

Prisons are full of white supremacists. With his history of tiki torch marching, he’d be a hero.

intheflow

(28,474 posts)
44. I really, really want to know what was in his suicide notes.
Wed Feb 15, 2023, 11:37 AM
Feb 2023

Did he express remorse for worshipping Nazis and drug smuggling? Or was it all about how the Jews/Biden framed him and as a good patriot, he couldn’t go on living under such a repressive regime? I don’t even feel bad for his kids because growing up without that POS as a father can only make their lives better.

Aristus

(66,369 posts)
49. A guy who fancied himself a revolutionary dies like a coward
Wed Feb 15, 2023, 03:24 PM
Feb 2023

when faced with the retribution of the state he dreamed of overthrowing.

There's at least a certain kind of justice in that.

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