I've been following Cole Carini's case for a year now. He was originally scheduled to be sentenced tomorrow (June 25th), but just a few hours ago, the judge agreed to delay sentencing since one of the government's witnesses that was scheduled to testify, a forensic examiner at the FBI laboratory in Quantico, is otherwise occupied investigating another incident.
Anyways, here's what I know so far.
Documents not otherwise linked are in the appendix.
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Background
In June 2020, Carini shows up at a hospital in Richlands, VA with extensive injuries to his hands and shrapnel wounds. He tells law enforcement that he suffered the injuries during a lawnmower accident. After a search warrant is executed, local, state, and federal law enforcement find a significant amount of TATP, a highly volatile primary explosive, in his residence. They also found drawings of explosive devices, a partially constructed pressure cooker bomb, and a scrap of paper containing one of Carini's unhinged writings. The words Elliot Rodger and hot cheerleaders were mentioned (a photo of this scrap of paper can be found on page 7 of the U.S. government's sentencing memorandum appended below).
On Buzzfeed, the Daily Beast, and on Reddit, that was all it took to declare Carini an incel. Here is the initial affidavit for reference.
Carini is later indicted on one count of making false statements to the FBI and one count of manufacturing and possessing a destructive device.
In December 2020, Carini agrees to plead guilty to Count 2. (Plea agreement here; Department of Justice press release here)
Latest information
During the investigation, it becomes clear that there is no evidence that Carini had ties to any incel communities, was motivated by incel philosophy, or self-identified as an incel. It turns out Carini is merely a failed white normie who also happens to be autistic and severely mentally ill. In fact, Carini had a girlfriend, "Jamie Keen", and even briefly maintained ties to her even after his arrest. According to prosecutors, Keen was in fact well aware of Carini's attempts to manufacture explosives and even talked about mailing drug-laced letters to Carini in jail.
This information can be gleaned from an FBI tactical intelligence report and an FBI laboratory report on Carini's explosives.
There is also more information about Carini's school and home life from the defense's sentencing memorandum, which reinforces my impression that he is a failed normie (considering he was a 6ft+ cumskin) and not a blackpiller.
Appendix
Anyways, here's what I know so far.
Documents not otherwise linked are in the appendix.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Background
In June 2020, Carini shows up at a hospital in Richlands, VA with extensive injuries to his hands and shrapnel wounds. He tells law enforcement that he suffered the injuries during a lawnmower accident. After a search warrant is executed, local, state, and federal law enforcement find a significant amount of TATP, a highly volatile primary explosive, in his residence. They also found drawings of explosive devices, a partially constructed pressure cooker bomb, and a scrap of paper containing one of Carini's unhinged writings. The words Elliot Rodger and hot cheerleaders were mentioned (a photo of this scrap of paper can be found on page 7 of the U.S. government's sentencing memorandum appended below).
On Buzzfeed, the Daily Beast, and on Reddit, that was all it took to declare Carini an incel. Here is the initial affidavit for reference.
Carini is later indicted on one count of making false statements to the FBI and one count of manufacturing and possessing a destructive device.
In December 2020, Carini agrees to plead guilty to Count 2. (Plea agreement here; Department of Justice press release here)
Latest information
During the investigation, it becomes clear that there is no evidence that Carini had ties to any incel communities, was motivated by incel philosophy, or self-identified as an incel. It turns out Carini is merely a failed white normie who also happens to be autistic and severely mentally ill. In fact, Carini had a girlfriend, "Jamie Keen", and even briefly maintained ties to her even after his arrest. According to prosecutors, Keen was in fact well aware of Carini's attempts to manufacture explosives and even talked about mailing drug-laced letters to Carini in jail.
This information can be gleaned from an FBI tactical intelligence report and an FBI laboratory report on Carini's explosives.
There is also more information about Carini's school and home life from the defense's sentencing memorandum, which reinforces my impression that he is a failed normie (considering he was a 6ft+ cumskin) and not a blackpiller.
Appendix
