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DISTURBING CONTENT WARNING. This is an update to investigation of the 2018 Zoosadist Leaks.

A simmering threat [2026]

Washington is on the volcanically active Pacific Ring of Fire. It’s famous for the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, when the volcano went through months of earthquakes and swelled with magma until it exploded. It released 24 megatons of energy, left a mile-wide crater, killed 57 people, devastated hundreds of miles of land, and was the most financially destructive volcanic event in US history. It caused major new awareness of disaster preparation. Today deep under the mountain, a complex, interconnected magmatic system makes the next eruption an even bigger threat; not if, but when it comes.

In October 2026, a Washington furry named Matthew “Cupid” Grabowsky is set to be released from jail. He’ll be on parole for his second conviction for preying on children and animals. Grabowsky did it in a ring of people like him in the Pacific Northwest furry community. His return is being watched by people whose warnings were brushed off, before and after he was caught — and those who know how many uncaught ring members are still where they always have been.

When Grabowsky was first arrested, he was at the epicenter of a quake under the community. Members scrambled to hide or face heat from the police. It shook out some buried corruption, and would make one organizer factory-reset his phone to hide involvement. A few ring members took the blame, but most of the evidence was buried, with friends smoothing it over. The impact was shallow in the end, and aftershocks weren’t seen as connected. There was no map to monitor the fault lines. The few other ring members who got caught were seen as internet denizens, not as part of a specific real life scene that connects offline, which helps it to stay underground.

Now you can see deeper into their scene with a report for exclusive release:

• CONTENT WARNING – Zoosadists of Seattle: The corruption of a scene and their friends, houses and parties.
• Let’s skip denial and hear the names of animals that were abused before defending people in it.

The 191-page report comes from long investigation. It started in 2022, but it sheds light on fresh developments. It reviews hundreds of pages of evidence, with sources from court and corporate records to social media posts. They show fault at the top of the community:

Kit Fox is a co-owner of popular Seattle furry dance party FetchNW, with power over their consent policy. Where furry scenes thrive, they’re anchored by regular real life meets and parties like this, with management helping to set standards for the community.

The report shows that Kit Fox brushed off taking action about Matthew Grabowsky after his bestiality conviction, just weeks before his second conviction for child sex offenses. Kit Fox pretended that as a leader, he couldn’t make judgements. At other times he said “ask some zoos” to protect them from judgement, treating animal abuse as a personal preference, instead of protecting their victims. He was friendly with local open zoophiles. This is why Kit Fox refused to ban someone who pled guilty to abuse done with a ring of other uncaught predators. Grabowsky may have been banned later, when it was too much of a PR problem to brush it off again — but others involved kept attending and staffing FetchNW, and run events that partner with it today.

Dogpatch Press is releasing the report with extra background and a reason to care about why justice isn’t done.

There’s evidence that, for the first time, identifies an uncaught animal serial killer.

A man pictured here is linked to kidnapping pets from yards to torture and kill. Later in the story, there’s a recreation of a kidnapping incident. It’s based on ring member conversation and location clues, but also adds the voiceless victim’s point of view. That’s where we switch from public service investigation of a threat, to a ghost story that asks why justice isn’t done.

If you want to know why justice isn’t done, a timeline can help. Later we’ll dig into evidence that you aren’t supposed to see. First let’s go back to 2017 to understand the layers of a mystery with a ghost at the heart.

A chain of events, and a secret deal you need to know [2017]

A mystery often starts with a woman in trouble. There was a woman in the furry scene named Nachodoggo, and she was afraid of having her dog taken away.

The report Zoosadists of Seattle: The corruption of a scene and their friends, houses and parties pictures the Pacific Northwest furry community as a complex, interconnected tangle of relationships. Members polyamorously date each other, live together in shared housing, and freely hook up. They mingle at house parties and official parties run by friends at clubs like FetchNW. They run furry businesses and get each other jobs. Imagine how they can keep things in the family, even before adding things to be afraid of.

Nachodoggo was close to furries into using parties for drug dealing and sex trade. She fell into a tangle with two to be afraid of: Kevin “Noodles” Richards and Matthew “Cupid” Grabowsky. Even before getting a record, Grabowsky had a reputation for bringing young people to parties with bad intentions, and sometimes trading them to others. Nachodoggo and her service dog were some of his targets. One day in 2017, Richards helped him to get her dog alone to make a bestiality video.

Such videos were currency for trading, like baseball cards. This one went to a procurer who was organizing a ring for harder stuff: Levi “Snakething” Simmons. The problem is, Simmons wasn’t supposed to trade it again, but he got greedy. Then it got back to Nachodoggo. It was dangerous for her to see the video. It showed Grabowsky’s full face, and getting caught could wreck EVERYBODY. But they had a plan.

There was blackmail to make her shut up. And worse.

They made death threats and said her dog could be taken away if she didn’t cooperate. Instead she went to police. Grabowsky and Richards were arrested with a slew of charges. It gave Grabowsky a serious problem, and a grudge at Simmons for breaking secrecy.

People into harder stuff with Simmons knew Grabowsky was into the same stuff, and they could see heat coming at them next because of it. They also had a grudge at Nachodoggo, and a revenge plan to drug and rape her at a house party. (She avoided them, and drops out of the story here.)

Then, legal docs show Grabowsky coming back to the furry scene with a light slap on the wrist. It was for bestiality with Nachodoggo’s dog, but he was allowed back by favor from people like Kit Fox — yes, even after a report of death threats and extortion — until a surprise in 2021. He was arrested again on a simple parole violation, but he received much worse charges for sex offending with children that pre-dated the bestiality.

A new layer emerges with Grabowsky’s second conviction. It was instant conviction, which is weird. It’s because his violation triggered consequences of a deal. His worse charges hadn’t come out back in 2017, because he got a favorable deal for providing evidence on others.

Take time to review legal records of Grabowsky’s cases to see his deal disclosed in black and white. He provided evidence in 2017, but it wasn’t open until 4-5 years later. It took TWO convictions for us to know, but criminals can add 1+1=2 faster than us, from inside knowledge and asking why his penalty was so light.

With our hindsight, now consider how one incident informs another.

They leaked with a murky agenda [2018]

A year after Grabowsky’s arrest came the 2018 Zoosadist Leaks. Here’s where the timeline starts for reporting by Dogpatch Press.

• 2018: An initial announcement before much of the info could be read.
• 2019: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5), a major update article series.
• 2021: A story about Grabowsky’s second conviction book-ends the info up to then.

For a quick review, think: Furry Epstein Files. It was a major release of chat logs about extreme child and animal abuse, taken from the procurer Levi “Snakething” Simons by shady zoophiles in his underworld. It was a rogue move, because Simmons hadn’t been caught yet. In the end (before ripple effects), Simmons had some of the only direct and serious consequences, but they weren’t mainly for animal abuse. He got 25 years in jail for crimes to children.

Child crimes cross a line. Predators flock together, but they care if it brings heat. Yes, Grabowsky had prior rumors about exploiting children before his first arrest, but the ring also knew from being directly involved. Remember his deal, and our newer hindsight on it. Later records of Grabowsky’s second conviction disclosed that he traded media of bestiality with children IN it… but some of the same media was traded by others in the 2018 leaks, who are uncaught and protected in the furry scene today. See who in Zoosadists of Seattle.

You might ask, how does one get a deal for doing that, and others get no consequences?

Step back and zoom in on legal records of Grabowsky’s cases. His deal is mentioned in a sentencing memorandum from 4/15/2022. It says he got a free pass for molesting kids by providing evidence to help solve murders of animals. It doesn’t add up with evidence that he was into that, too… and the memorandum says his help “did not result in charges against the perpetrators of the violence against animals.”

You may know of many examples of the government bungling serious cases, especially lately… and compare how Levi “Snakething” Simmons got locked away for crime to children rather than animals. The math of this makes a lot of collateral crime, like serial killing pets, left out of the equation like a rounding error. Maybe the feds had their priorities about kids… but where are ours about the people involved?

This is especially a question about whether laws = morals when organized zoophiles count on their cybercrime underworld being a rounding error.

Now lay out some puzzle pieces. Grabowsky’s arrest in 2017 gave him a grudge. He got a snitch deal. Ring members could add 1+1=2. Criminals don’t like being watched. There was a leak. That’s bad for active cases.

Here’s where everything gets murky — but think of how convenient it would be for a leak to interfere with active cases if they didn’t know about Grabowsky’s deal. The evidence shows that ring members were paranoid about exposure well before the 2018 leaks, there was blackmailing all around them, and there was coverup afterwards. It follows that the leaks had an agenda. Could it be simply for payback and cutting loose a liability who risked too much? Was it to also to block justice by wrecking surveillance, spoil evidence about themselves, warn friends, protect friends by throwing enemies under the bus, grab inside power from rivals, or be vigilantes about crimes ignored by the police in a partial way, while doing all of that?

The leaks came with a claim that “These are not what zoophiles are”, as if it was simply to care about animals. The problem is when this IS what they are, and the idea of organized zoophiles cleaning up themselves is like a snake eating its own tail, serving some to get away with it and stay protected today.

Things don’t add up about why many were not charged, and how many know and don’t care even at the top of the furry scene. This contributes to evidence later being misinterpreted, excused in bad faith, dismissed with genetic fallacy, surrounded by attempts to manipulate and spin, hide and deny it for PR, erase the victims and attack those who see through it. The whole thing is burning with injustice and the smoke of confusion. But one thing is clear.

The evidence is real and can not be denied. There are literal buried skeletons.

Aftermath, more developments, and a foundation of facts [2019-2026]

The leaked evidence emerged from the swamps of internet rumor with concrete legal consequences. As time goes by, and more developments build on what came before, the foundation of facts gets more firm. No counter-evidence has emerged to undermine it. No part of the leaks has ever been shown to be faked.

This encouraged mainstream producers to back a fact-checked TV docuseries on AMC — The Furry Detectives: Unmasking a Monster. This reporter was a source for being given the leaks. Nobody has been able to challenge the reporting, passing time limits for legal challenge.

Confirmed ring members who were caught include:

• Grabowsky and Richards, Levi “Snakething” Simmons, and ring members like Eliteknight, Icepaws, and Spark Dalmation all have crime records.
• James “Sangie” Hoyt was friend/partner of Simmons. Hoyt had a 2009 child sex offense conviction, then became influential owner of furry porn printing service Inkedfur. He was outed in the leaks for helping Simmons to plan child grooming — but strangely he had no charges, and stayed welcome to vend at furry conventions. Finally in 2025, Hoyt was busted again for a huge collection of CSAM files.
• David “Tuskyn” James was a pedophile active in the ring with a conviction from 2006. He was in furry for decades and remains friends with furry convention organizer Shy Matsi after a new conviction in 2022.
• Jason “Moose” Birch was caught for bestiality in the UK in 2024. This ring member was named in 2020 as prolific decades-active bestiality producer Animalkiss/AK-Akita, but his charges reflect very little of his history. He was accused of raping farm animals and pets at his wife’s dog trainer business, and linked to UK furries at the Confuzzled convention, and a Scottish bestiality ring.
• The Scottish bestiality ring had 3 men busted in 2021, with one known as “Magic Flame” in the ring.

With a factual foundation of caught members, look at some of possibly hundreds of associates with weak consequences.

• Among the most sadistic killers is Timothy “TimWin” Amaroso in Winlock WA, who was covered up by organized zoophiles for decades — and ring member Woof (Rubén Marrero Pernas), who benefited from having no animal protection law under Cuba’s constitution.
• Florent “Pakyto” Durin is a French furry who abused dogs to trade with the ring. Durin said he was caught but not charged for bestiality by French police, and flew to Anthrocon when reports didn’t prevent his entry. Durin was online partner to pedophile Carl “RC Fox” Kirkwood, and hinted of encouraging his 2018 suicide to avoid conviction. Durin announced Kirkwood’s death, after police found the body and called ring member Saito (Coywolf)…
• Ben “Foxberance” Mills was outed for raping animals on video in a fursuit made for him, and organizes popular furry dance events in Germany and the UK that once partnered with the Confuzzled convention.
• Nickolas “Tane” Spahn was a ring member in leaked evidence of a teen being groomed to make CSAM. This led to Spahn’s partner Tyler “Leko” Mark requesting coverup for Spahn, admitting he was in the ring, claiming that receiving tips about it was “bullying”, and pushing backlash from convention staff. Spahn was banned from a DEFCON furs club — then shielded by Silicon Valley furry nonprofit Pawprint Prototyping. Spahn was founding treasurer on the Pawprint Prototyping board made of his friends and roommates. They know he was in the ring, and helped him to lie and rebrand with a new fursona. (Remember, as Grabowsky’s legal docs show, the government has let people out of charges for making CSAM.) Spahn’s enabler Leko went on to staff a furry event that tried to cover up a pedophile owner. Pawprint Prototyping gained 6 figures in crowdfunding for their “Dotfurry” campaign after protecting this ring member on their board. (Wait for Part 2.)

Injustice lets corruption prosper and sprawl internationally, but let’s follow it back to the Pacific Northwest.

Zoosadists of Seattle looks at organizers of furry club parties, house parties, brewers and bar owners, and BDSM kink events. People aboveground with popular businesses have given cover and excuses for friends involved, or are zoophiles themselves. See 2024 investigation of Seattle bar Slightly Furry’s zoophile owner K0mpy, who was let go with shady PR but remained a kink event producer. The bar kept a bartender, Anubis, who appears in the 2018 leaks.

Most named here are tight with a local furry scene with offline networking, where crony corruption can be whitewashed with appeal to scene loyalty. That includes whisper networks between organizers to suppress reporting with harassment and shunning, as anyone who speaks on these affairs may find out. It’s like abusers benefiting from influence in the Catholic Church, schools, or Boy Scouts to defer justice for what’s buried. Yes, it’s liable to happen in any contained community — but this is OURS to reckon with. Especially if we love and take pride in what we’ve built.

Now we dig down to the bone.

The passenger — Incident recreation for a voiceless victim [2018]

Coywolf is a fursuiter into motorsports and guns, now in his late 20’s. The following recreates locations and actions from messages in the 2018 Zoosadist Leaks between him and Levi “Snakething” Simmons. The source files have been repeatedly corroborated by years of converging evidence. 

It’s near the early hours of August 24, 2018. It’s 2 nights before the full moon.

Coywolf’s mind is fired up with a plan.

He’s used to being on the move with long-distance driving jobs, at all times of day or night. Based on his habits, a best guess for his location is in Jurupa Valley, a semi-arid city east of Los Angeles.

The Southern California weather is pleasant enough for just a T-shirt for prowling in the dark. It would dip to 67F by dawn.

Coywolf opens the Telegram app on his phone and sends a message to his eager contact.

“Dog hunting time.”

He is chasing an adrenaline high with hope to lure someone’s dog from a yard. He’ll use food. That will be better for his use than trying to randomly kill animals under his tires, or find roadkill that other truckers say they hit, to pick up warm or not.

He keeps a tarp for that, but it’s an interest that he’ll talk about on other nights. 

Tonight any live dog will do. 

Shortly before dawn, Coywolf is on the move now, but stops to chat with his contact for 8 minutes. He makes a threat to keep things private. He is tense because the luring worked. 

Her yard was as quiet as her heartbeat, except for the whisper of a distant vehicle rolling past, turning and parking next to the darkest part of the road, positioned to go. She didn’t alert to anything for a while after that, until a soft footfall crunched gravel outside the gate. A furtive, slim shadow, beckoning.

She yelped when he opened the gate without knowing a name to call, and put his hands on her. She is a pit bull, maybe anxious about a stranger’s touch, but friendly enough to sit still in the back seat.

At first he played nice to soothe her with a soft touch while getting fast distance. Confidence settled in. Now he’s all business, and thinking of a way to tie her down. 

He says he might try ratchet straps, but he wants no blood or traces for roommates to see on his clothes.

Coywolf has property near Preston, Nevada. It’s expansive and sparsely populated land. He stores things for his car and gun hobbies there. He has 5 cars registered in the state. They bear vanity plates with sly fetish codes that the DMV won’t know but furries will; variations of “knot”, slang for dog genitalia.

This is ordinary code used with joking familiarity in his close contacts with other secretive predators. Sometimes too close. He has uncomfortable housing with ones he’s paranoid about because of how much they know, but he can live across a wide geographic base as a professional driver.

He says he’s taking his prey to the mountains.

His property near Preston is about a 7 hour drive away, flanked by White Pine County’s mountains over 10,000 feet tall. The I-15 in San Bernardino County is a route to there.

She is confused by being driven for many hours longer than going to the vet or the park to play. She wants water. He wants to kill her by sexual penetration. He flushes feverish at the thought of crushing her trust as he grips the wheel like her neck.

He loves the power this gives him, the experience he’s gaining for how much he dares to get away with while prowling at night, and the points this will score with others. In the rearview mirror his gaze is remote, like in the portrait his mother posted for his birthday.

She’s panting in the back seat, wanting to be home in her yard. Her need is just a nuisance to him. It was already over when the door closed and the engine started. Now Coywolf is also just riding along as a passenger, for a decision made with his contact who desperately wants to see it done, giving him permission to transgress without guilt. Timestamps in Telegram mark the falling sand of her life. 

Around 10 a.m., he sends a short video of her bound with electrical tape.

It’s a trophy now. He says it’s done to the one who wanted to see.

He has bragged about penetrating other victims to death, like the neighbors cat that he caught and bound, but he couldn’t do it this time, even after she died. She would have choked, unless he ended it with a knife or gun he likes to carry. On Telegram they don’t bother discussing how she might have felt or struggled. She is just another soul consumed by the fire beneath what we know.

The open land is full of bleached bones, and there’s no known matching body. Police won’t bother with cold cases about pets, and animal control officers are like dog catchers, not trackers to go after one who vanished. Pit bulls are one of the most euthanized dogs. Shelters are full of ones like her.

Records requests to county animal control are as good as a shrug. Without a body or a witness, was she even real?

Somewhere out there, her family knows. They saw their gate left ajar, and cried with hope that she’ll come home some day. They felt guilty as if their carelessness led to this. Her killer knows that dogs run away and get hit by cars, or picked up and euthanized every day, so who cares about a statistic? Nobody will ever imagine what she saw when he ripped the tape, sending her mind bolting away from the stickiness pressing her fur, with escape only coming when it went slack, making it his secret forever. Nobody will know except the one he showed, who savored it with him from afar.

On August 25, 2018, Coywolf reminds Snakething to keep it to himself:

“Don’t ever get on my bad side because there are plenty of places here to bury a person and never be found.”

Our witness [timeless]

Levi “Snakething” Simmons has communicated from jail with Dogpatch Press, out of loneliness about missing his friends in the ring. Apparently they left him to rot in there, but he’s still loyal enough to play very vague when asked for details about what they did.

The details of this incident include an August 24 date, and a huge, sparse mountain area for a missing female pit bull with no ID. County animal control and multiple agencies WERE contacted. It’s not enough to find her. Imagine trying to dig up his property. If you have any information or leads, please reach out.

We still have plausible evidence that Coywolf is an uncaught pet serial killer. This leaked chat is real. It has him boasting to a soon-caught ringleader about kidnapping pets from yards to torture and kill. He sent real-time messages of doing it, with confidence that nobody would ever match it to him. He sent video evidence, and got viewing reaction from an experienced partner. Then he made death threats to keep it private. They weren’t role-playing.

The reconstruction is made for an impact that not even their statements can give, because who wants to watch gore, or rely on reading chats between predators who glorify but hide what they do? The witness is a voiceless ghost. The impact is her reality.

She is a ghost who haunts this community, a restless spirit who cries to go home until she is heard.

She haunts those who deny what’s inside, want to write this off as a singular, personal problem, or tell you to trust the government to take care of what we don’t.

She is the secret of a predator who walks by you in a fursuit in spaces you love. Zoosadists of Seattle shows that Coywolf knows famous Youtubers and convention leaders, gets invited to their houses, and goes to gun ranges with them. Private sources know he also hooks up with people who are well known for adult media.

In 2016, Coywolf was in the San Francisco Bay Area furry community. As a stranger and teenager without a past, he asked about volunteering for a Zootopia movie screening hosted by Dogpatch Press. He also randomly greeted this reporter face to face one time at San Francisco’s Frolic furry dance party, in a crowd outside where an under-21 wouldn’t be noticed. This reporter didn’t remember, but he did.

When Coywolf’s secret was on the verge of discovery during the 2018 leaks, he tweeted denials, then reached out with defensive private messages to throw off reporting. This included sending an “active sessions” screen with a lie about being hacked, the same one that was infamously tweeted by ring member Kero the Wolf in a futile attempt to cover his ass. Coywolf was Kero’s coach in the shadow of that viral moment. He had also seen Dogpatch Press tagged with the leaks and believed that there might be an opening to manipulate a tenuous personal connection for a coverup. It stunk, without even knowing his agenda or reading the evidence yet. When Coywolf was challenged about lying, he admitted to being a zoophile. Chasing his identity took years after that.

In 2023, after he was painstakingly tracked and identified, this reporter was embracing a different ghost on the party floor of the Further Confusion convention in San Jose. Eating magic mushrooms and being in a fursuit was a way to process the recent death of a partner. In this place to release life, with a crowd of animal people vibrating softly and brightly, suddenly the air soured with an aura of death.

The crowd parted and Coywolf came past in his fursuit. This reporter was in a fursuit that wouldn’t be recognized. Being in touching distance made a struggle with the weight of a secret that nobody else could possibly grasp, and an urge to grab him, unmask and name him, and spit lava in his face. That would only alert him to hide things. Caution squashed the urge, but it was too heavy not to go back later and stand at that spot, so far from the light, waiting for a confrontation that never came.

Imagine how long it takes to piece together all of these details, try to get help without enough for authorities to make a case, and hope leads might emerge later. Years of investigation ended in a cold case without help from above. That means all you can do is witness the victim and watch out for each other. The only justice is in seeing.

Below the mountain

Imagine the community as a mountain where the base is unstable and the top is hidden by clouds. Zoosadists of Seattle shows how some people up there are keeping it that way. When Matthew “Cupid” Grabowsky returns from jail in October 2026, remember how the first time, leaders decided it was better to play dumb and put the risk on other people and animals, than to limit Grabowsky’s access to a community where he and his friends hunted them. This is part of how ring members like Coywolf get away with much more than we know.

The opening mentions the threat of an eruption. Maybe it never happens while they stay welcome. Or it could be one of rage about injustice for what they do.

Today Mount St. Helens is a popular and beautiful hiking destination. It has gone from being monitored with a single seismometer 30 miles away in 1980, to a close network of sensors and reporting operated with a much greater understanding of the systems beneath an eruption. The next one won’t catch anyone unaware, and if it does, it’s because someone deliberately didn’t do their job, or was prevented from reporting.

Monitoring for risk goes farther than the area of an eruption itself. There’s also the way it can generate lahars — torrents of melted ice and mud that can wash away populated areas downstream, far below the mountain. Awareness may need to extend much farther than you think.

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