Sometimes, you just have to fight back. This is a personal note that goes along with the recent news of the bullying of Dr. Susan Crockford and Dr. Judith Curry.
Thanks to the Chico Police Department and officer Jim Parrott, I learned today that we were able to shut down a person living in Windsor Ontario who has been serially harassing me and threatening me and my family for over a year. He was doing this because of my views on “climate change” and my website: https://wattsupwiththat.com
Officer Parrott reached out to the Windsor Police Department (Constable Strong in the WPD Major Crimes Unit) and provided him all the research I’d gathered (including setting up an Internet “honeypot” to trap him) and today we get word back that the suspect has been identified, and has had police officers show up at his front door.
This particularly malicious troll is one of the “Arctic sea ice zealots” that inhabit Jim Hunt’s “Great White Con” website on sea ice. Both Jim and this troll were long ago banned from WUWT for serially bad behavior breaking our commenting policy multiple times, but this one troll couldn’t let it go. He escalated, and continued to do so.
Of course, the troll embraced the crazy and patently wrong views promoted by Dr. Michael Mann and many others that I’m an “agent of the Koch brothers, and on the take to run WUWT”.
As I’ve said many times in the past, I’ve never taken a dime from the Koch’s; they don’t even know who I am. WUWT is entirely supported by advertising and donations.
My opinions published here and the opinions of guest authors is entirely our own, and not “for hire” as some weak-minded people assert. One of these days, Dr. Mann is going to find himself on the wrong end of a lawsuit for promoting these falsehoods that incite people like I’ve had to deal with for over a year. In fact, this particular troll claimed he had enlisted Dr. Mann as part of his plan to “expose me” (the troll’s words). He also said he’d enlisted Sou aka Miriam O’Brien of Hotwhopper in his cause against me. Of course, it turned out to be nothing but bluster, but wow, this guy had quite an imagination and hatred for me in his heart.
Thanks to the work of the Windsor Police Department and the Chico Police Department, this malicious Internet troll won’t be bothering me again.
Thanks also to a number of bloggers who helped me zoom in on this guy by sharing information. Thanks also to “Poptech” whose research was very helpful. Great thanks to our own “Charles the Moderator” who helped me stay calm and focused on the “long game” rather than let this toad get under my skin.
Its quite a feeling of satisfaction to [get some action on] this case, especially since this dirtbag had assumed multiple identities, used fake emails, and other techniques to hide his identity. Much like some of the other trolls we deal with here daily, but this one stepped over the line, time and time again.
For example here are excerpts from a long rambling email I received (along with Charles the Moderator who was helping me) Tuesday, November 07, 2017 4:28 PM
Great news perverted WOMEN HATERS;)
(Saul pulled it off and remained invisible, aren’t you impressed, my two little twinkies? Hehehe, just 11 followers)
NOVEMBER 12th 2017
This is just one of dozens of crazy emails with threats I received over the last year and a half. Some contained thinly veiled death threats, some like this one were irrational rants, some were incomprehensible references to things he “knew” but I had no idea what the hell he was talking about. The reference to November 12th in this email was a “drop dead date” for an extortion attempt (I was supposed to donate to the Canadian organization Medicine Sans Frontiers aka doctors without borders to avoid my exposure of “Koch dollars”). Of course, I’m not easily extorted, because I knew this jerk was just making things up out of his own Koch-fueled imagination.
My mistake was originally treating him with respect over a complaint he had about WUWT, and replying using my personal email. That was a dumb move of trust on my part that I won’t repeat again.
So, we nailed him. Despite his cowardice and shapeshifting, we prevailed, and we used his own stupidity against him to trap him in the “honeypot” so a positive ID could be made.
I won’t share the technique I devised, but it’s safe to say he had no idea what hit him when officers showed up at his door in Windsor. While it is very very tempting to share the file I have on him thanks to the police, I’ve learned long ago that “discretion is the greater part of valor“. I’ll just keep it handy, just in case I need to exercise my rights further.
Right Thomas? aka “Lawrence Martin”, aka “Reggie”, aka “Reginald Perrin” aka “Saul from Montreal”, aka “Solomon Gursky”, aka “Master of Space and Thyme” among others… here’s a partial photo of Thomas the troll from the file:
In the meantime, potential dirtbags that might be thinking of threatening me or my family or any other climate skeptic should think again. We won’t tolerate it. Climate skeptics are fed up with the threats and smears as we’ve seen against Dr. Curry and Dr. Crockford, and we aren’t going to take it anymore.
So, in closing…
Troll, troll, troll your boat gently down the stream…
Merrily, merrily, merrily merrily, anonymity is but a dream.
UPDATE:
BTW, I forgot to add this note. There’s precedence for arresting Internet trolls in Canada, such as this notorious one who got 16 counts and a psych evaluation:
https://pandasthumb.org/archives/2011/08/prolific-intern.html
Is that Blowtorch Reggie?
Wow, Tony Heller will be gutted. (/sarc)
Yep, that’s him.
I had a few amusing discussions with Blowtorch Reggie a couple of years ago. He’s certifiable material. But I’m sure you know that very well!
Most of us don’t have the resources to be able to follow in your footsteps Anthony, should we become victims of the same sort of malicious activity.
So when you have a success like this, we are all the beneficiaries of your perseverance .
And nice to hear that Chasmod was a helpful Man Friday.
Every time you win one for our side, we all benefit in ways we may never realize.
Jolly good show Man !
G, and g too .
ChasMod is one of the world’s nice guys. I can vouch.
“He’s certifiable material. ” yes, this rambling BS sounds very incoherent but smart enough not to only make veiled threats. I’m sure our host has recd worse than this but probably less persistent cases.
Hardly the same league as firing rounds at Christy and Spencer’s research building.
Corduroy jacket ?! No really, he wears a Corduroy jacket. What a sad friggin mess.
I am so sorry you have to put up with this -bleep-. You deserve so much better.
The best I can do is counter the -bleep- with my sincere thanks for all your wonderful posts, and all your kindness, and the countless hours of pleasure your blog has afforded me since I first discovered it back in 2007.
Reggie, Jim Hunt and Griff are three trolls of a feather. There is absolutely no way to reason with them in a polite manner. But even more chilling is that these people and even the supposedly more responsible true believers want to suspend the First Amendment, shut down the Internet, and destroy our right to free speech. Not to mention jailing skeptics.
The fact that these people are going psycho at this time obviously shows that we are winning and they are losing!
Glad to know that this pathetic excuse for a homo sapiens was finally located and nailed, mostly because he can’t keep his Big Fat Mouth shut.
I’ve had an online stalker for going on 4 years now, but he was dumb enough to think he could provoke me into retaliating. He began stalking and harassing other people, too, and it finally caught up with him. He is now in jail, with a second hearing coming up next week. This one is SO STUPID that he violated a restraining order placed on him by some of the others he had stalked and harrassed from his jail cell. I kid you not. In the process of finding things out, I and other people stumbled across things he is connected to in the past, things that made us all cringe. That is being investigated also.
Congratulations, Anthony. Thumbs up, big time!!!
Good job nailing him. The left is full of psychos.
Having a sponsor such as Koch Bros should not be a big deal.
After all the green and left are sponsored by such people as the Rockefeller Bros.
How do I know this?
Well the Rockefeller Bros have a search facility on their website where you can look up every donee. There are a lot of familiar names there.
Check out https://thedemiseofchristchurch.com/2015/08/15/the-rockefellers-who-they-fund-from-their-web-site/
Cheers
Roger
I want some Koch dollars. How do I getem?
You left out Soros and a bunch of others richer than they are.
Ah but isn’t Soros on the left? I suspect if you want to instigate collectivism or wish abolish the right to free speech, he may well be glad to help. So long as one has an insidious plan that is. 🙂
Soros is neither left nor right. he’s a being who profits in chaos. A chaos god of sorts.
No truer words have been spoken. He does not care who “wins” or “loses”, either way HE profits and people suffer. Those are his only goals.
Blowtorch Reggie???…..good grief….he’s famous…..I’ve even seen him post
“Good Work Anthony!!”
Remember what one buzzard said to another; ‘Patience my A**, I’m going to kill something!”
Wonderful news, well done! 👍🏻
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Good work.
Well done Anthony!!
I simply can’t understand people like that. He looks young enough to be holding down a job. If he is working and spending his time doing that sort of stuff he should be fired. If he is doing that outside working hours then he should get some sort of ‘real’ social life.
“Society wants to believe it can identify evil people or bad or harmful people, but it’s not practical. There are no stereotypes.”
Ted Bundy
“I made my fantasy life more powerful than my real one.”
Jeffery Dahmer
He may be paid by George Soros.
yes! boot to the head!
No. Loss of freedom for many years is more effective.
fine- how about at your expense rather than mine?
gnomish,
If a person has an physical abnormality you would be violent to them?
Or do you believe they should be given help and medical assistance?
If someone has a mental abnormality you think that physical violence is a good method of assisting them and society, or is it just for your own gratification?
Yes he’s a nasty, vicious troll of the very worst kind, and may even have become violent. He is undergoing an mental assessment and may well be found to be mentally defective in some way.
That’s his problem, what’s yours gnomish for wishing to be violent to people with obvious mental abnormalities?
You are dangerously naive. Far too often people you describe go on, after “treatment”, to commit horrific acts of violence against innocent people. Will this one come after AW again? I doubt it, he will pick another target, one who has no clue what he is. And it is a good bet he will take this whole experience and become worse. Instead of helping him it will make him even more angry and he WILL seek outlets to receive that anger. The proverbial “boot to the head” may well be exactly what he needs. This idea that medical and psychiatric “treatment” can fix people who don’t want to be fixed is dangerous, and in far too many cases leads to innocent people being harmed or killed.
2hotel9
I take it you have verified figures for “Far too often people you describe go on, after “treatment”, to commit horrific acts of violence against innocent people. ”
I’m of the belief more research into treatment should be done and not more violence against the person. Violence does not solve the problem!
Your prognosis of giving people a “boot to the head” is truly vile and can not improve anything, certainly not any of society’s mental health problems. These people need effective treatment not violence!
Again, you are dangerously naive. Worst part is you are not the one who will suffer for it, innocent people do. Truly sad.
Again should the data!
Do your own homework, pick up a newspaper and read, all those rapes, assaults, child molestations? They are being committed by the people you are so eager to defend. Or is it all the victims’ fault?
Still no data, eh. Just your own jaundiced prejudice of how things are!
The majority can not be rehabilitated. They just learn how to act normal, sufficient to fool those who taught them how to act (i.e. the same people). They’ll reoffend as soon as they have opportunity, but they’ll be better at hiding now.
That may be so. I doubt such a diagnosis applies to all.
that was a most retardedly triggered comment, tom0mason
meditate on this wisdom as you seek inner peace.
Cheers gnomish, and I wish you a Happy Christmas too.
Name and shame the P.O.S.
All in good time. I’m working the long game.
Glad to here it. The first thing I thought when I finished reading the article was, “This isn’t over!”. A visit from the police and/or some kind of restraining order may slow him down for a while, but he seems too whacko to just let it go. I hope you stay one step ahead of him, and that he gets the professional help he obviously needs.
As a daily visitor to WUWT, I am expressing my gratitude for the work you and your volunteers do. You are already a ‘David’ to the ‘Goliath’ of the global warming paradigm. That would be more than enough right there. My appreciation grows ever larger when I see you persevere through this harassment nonsense with intelligence and due diligence.
Thank You!
Jim Clarke
Indeed. No doubt he has a network of friends, who may or may-not be like him (perhaps worse).
And he’s not the only one out there. A little bit of Sun Tzu goes a long way 🙂
A great result Anthony. A real team effort and great cooperation between two police districts got the job done! This might smarten the act up of those considering following in the trolls footsteps.
I see this person as part of a wider problem in today’s ‘social-media’ world. Supposedly responsible people in the media, or people who get attention in the media, have long been playing fast and loose with both the truth and truthful language. They are often so blinded by a political hatred of people who disagree with them that they lose sight of what is considered normal respectful manners and consideration for other people. Thus if people who know better routinely, say, describe Donald Trump as “literally Hilter”, then there is going to be some small fraction of the population who start to think and act as if it might be true.
In Anthony’s case, it is the Michael Mann’s of this world who do know better, but simply don’t care where their baseless allegations end up. Nor do they accept any personal responsibility for having effectively incited less intelligent people to do hurtful things to other people who are wholly innocent of the imagined misdemeanors.
I’ve come to regard Michael Mann more as a troll than as a scientist. But even bad as he is, he appears to be orders of magnitude less crazy than this ‘Blowtorch Reggie’. And while I’m not in favor of gun control, we definitely need to figure out a way to keep guns out of the hands of loons like this. He’s truly scary.
He lives in Canada. Unlikely he has anything more dangerous than a steak knife, although he appears to have weaponized stupidity.
I’ve recently looked at Michael Mann’s twitter account to see him use references to a Bruce Willis/Joel Osment movie called Sixth Sense where they use the line “I see dead people” which Michael mann translates as “I see deniers”. Appears as though he wants all deniers, dead. Call the cops!
“people who get attention in the media”, this may be a false alarm, but beware Bill Nye, he has someone in his sights in an upcoming documentary about him.
I see that there is a new show on Netflix called “Bill Nye Saves the World”. I didn’t watch it, but what a guy. All of his supposed fame is going to his head.
+10
Excellent. About time the warmunist scum learn that skeptics will eventually hit back. Hard.
LOL @Rud Istvan, you think the Chico PD is going to have this guy extradited, and pay for his transport from Canada to California over a “telephone harassment” charge?
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You may be a lawyer, but you haven’t a clue about reality.
Elmer, I never thought any of your fevered imagination. The troll has been caught out by Canadian laws in Canada. Those are, per Mark Stein, much worse than in the US. Get a grip.
“The troll has been caught out by Canadian laws in Canada.”
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LOL, I didn’t realize you had the inside info on what the Canadians were up to. And I assumed you were an American. I apologize.
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Now tell me, are the Canadian authorities going to pay for the transport of the witnesses from Chico to attend the hearings?
Please give us al your “learned” opinion on “jurisdiction” in this case Ristvan.
“per Mark Stein”
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1) Mark is not a Canadian lawyer
2) His last name is spelled “Steyn”
oh dear, another obsessor
Elmer Fudd,
You can be assured that if Anthony needs to go to Canada to testify, we readers will come up with the money to make it happen. I’m also getting fed up with loonies and think it is time to start standing up to them.
I think this chap committed enough Canadian law mayhem to keep him in big trouble for a good while.
No need to waste the energy required to actually ship the carcass to some other jurisdiction.
As they say, the Mounties eventually get their man.
G
FYI Elmer, up here in the Frozen North uttering threats is against the law. He’ll probably be charged in Windsor. Also noticed that he will get a physc eval. That and those several charges will give him some legal fees to remember.
Good on ya Anthony, you took out another one of those operating in a brain free environment.
What the hell? Do they just line you guys up? Anthony manages to have one nutbag brought down and you run up to take his place?
Enjoy your imagined superiority while it lasts “Elmer”.
Why would the Canadians expedite? He broke Canadian laws as well as American ones.
extradite, not expedite.
Should not post before that first cup of coffee.
Hopefully they will expedite this prosecution! (couldn’t help myself, sorry)
Is your last name “Fudd”?
My dearest Elmer, there is a tip box here that got Anthony to the UK a few years back and Donna Lafromboise to a conference she wanted to be at. It would not take much to get all the witnesses where they need to be and because of the nature of the allegations I suspect the tip jar will overflow with generosity.
Thanks for having the backbone to put up with this nonsense Anthony.
Well done. Was he charged? Or did they simply scarce the crap out of him?
What would this guy be charged with? What is the chargeable offence he committed?
Based on the description above, harassment or attempted extortion come to mind as POSSIBLE charges.
In any event, please I notice I asked if he had been charged.
I did not claim he committed an offense to which he could be charged.
He probably lost his computer, for a while at least. The Ontario Provincial Police computer forensics guys are wa-ay competent. They may find multiple other probable causes to dig even deeper. He’s toast.
Careful with this perp; his actions and writings are indicative of serious mental illness.
I carry.
Lots of practice makes perfect.
12 ga pump, 18-20″ bbl., 2 3/4″ 00B works well for in home needs. Range absolute @ur momisugly 15 yds.
Careful. Simply saying “I carry” will freak out our friends North of the border.
Ant,
Empty vessels make the most noise. I suspect this guy was never a physical threat to you or your family. He’s a nonentity; an internet bully with a juvenile inferiority complex that demands him seeking personal validation by issuing empty threats. He imagines he can hide behind anonymity because his naive belief is the internet is anonymous, which in itself reveals his puerile ignorance and incompetence.
The point being is that he would never break cover to perpetrate a physical crime. Were he truly a threat to you he wouldn’t broadcast his ‘intentions’, he would just carry them out. And I would cite your own conduct to support that contention. You didn’t announce your intentions to have him dealt with, you had the good sense to just do it and quite literally, appear at his door, out the blue.
You have demonstrated, with considerable credit to you and your close friends, that you are all trousers and no mouth.
As irritating as he is, and I can imagine how much he upset you, you have done the right thing by enlisting help, tracking the guy down, and getting the police involved.
And it may be of cold comfort, but you now know how to find, and deal with these people. Any subsequent event will become easier, and increasingly satisfying as you pick them off one by one.
He writes like a person who is very drunk. Hopefully he gets help.
Mike, Canada has one of the highest gun ownership rates in the world. 29% of Canadian homes own guns (just behind the USA at 34%).
Trust me, it is strange to see some one with a big revolver in a hip holster walking their dog, but guns don’t “freak” us out.
Jeff in Calgary;
It is true that guns do not ‘freak out’ us Canadians. However, our American friends should also know that gunfire does provoke extreme responses, and there is strong public reaction when the response is not extreme enough or the law enforcement officers lack the equipment or training maintain the proud Canadian ideal of one shot fired for every perpetrator downed.
Yeah, he seems a little deranged.
Carrying is good! 🙂
I’m not too familiar with Canadian law but I think they have a lot of laws about what you can and cannot say on the internet. What kind of charges, if any, does this guy face?
TA
See http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cycp-cpcj/bull-inti/index-eng.htm
[Bullying is an offence.]
Cyberbullying involves the use of communication technologies such as the Internet, social networking sites, websites, email, text messaging and instant messaging to repeatedly intimidate or harass others.
Cyberbullying includes:
•Sending mean or threatening emails or text/instant messages.
•Posting embarrassing photos of someone online.
•Creating a website to make fun of others.
•Pretending to be someone by using their name.
•Tricking someone into revealing personal or embarrassing information and sending it to others.
Cyberbullying affects victims in different ways than traditional bullying. It can follow a victim everywhere 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, from school, to the mall and all the way into the comfort of their home – usually safe from traditional forms of bullying.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_Canada
For more on internet freedom of speech and libel.
Relative to polar bears and sea ice, from what I have read the polar bear and the brown bear are essentially the same species. From that I would expect that one migrated and evolved a difference in coat colors etc. This would then mean that there had been divergence at some point and probably convergence in the future. Net effect would be trivial and in any case, the ecosystem will change and the inhabitants of the area will change with it.
I think you should be posting about polar bears in some thread related to polar bears instead of here. There are many to choose.
It is embarrassing that it was a Canadian that did this but not surprising. Canadians listen to the news and they believe it. They are not too bright. Maybe they will not notice when they freeze to death.
Signed, a Canadian not living in that frozen wasteland they call Canada.
Hey, I was surprised.
That is very interesting. Most of the Canadians I have ever dealt with have been the most polite people around. Is there something going on up there that has changed that recently? The Canadian Air Force ladies and gentlemen I dealt with were always very polite and unassuming. I couldn’t imagine any of them doing anything remotely like this.
“Is there something going on up there that has changed that recently?”
Yes. A liberal government that is: welcoming ISIS fighters back into Canada, importing thousands of Islamic migrants to bolster their voter base; allowing thousands of illegal migrants to pour through non-ports of entry at an unprotected border to claim asylum; passing blasphemy motions to quell “Islamophobic” dissent; removing FGM as an illegal practice from citizenship guides; instituting escalating carbon taxes; crushing proposed pipelines with new emissions regulations (while allowing cement factories with twice the emissions to proceed with no regulation) – all while importing oil from terror states; a corrupt Finance minister whose family dumped $millions in shares days before a tax increase across the board.
The looney troll is a left wing zealot and online bully that likely soiled himself when the cops showed up. He’ll show up in court like a whipped dog, full of tears when he realizes that there is a real world out there with consequences.
Your comment makes me smile, as the nicest Americans I met up here in Canada were from our local military base, they were the same as your description.
Of late here – it’s sadly changed, more like a European state of mind than being for freedom and sovereignty of one’s own identity and culture. The current PM is one of the worst ones to date, in our short history. Global elites have been gobbling up Canada’s political landscape unfettered for at least a good decade or more.
But as they say, you deserve the gov you voted for – save for I personally didn’t vote for this disastrous PM.
~ldd
And then there’s Canada’s southern protectorate:
“…Koch-fueled imagination…”
I’ve wondered for a long time whether a lot of warmist hysteria is the result of “better living through chemistry,” nerny perns, or Old Nogginthrob. Things don’t really go better with coke or similar substances.
Police showing up at one’s door is a common occurance.
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Was he arrested?
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If he was arrested what was the charge?
The case is not closed until a sentence, and all appeals are exhausted.
It was a figure of speech related to my efforts, probably should have used a different phrase since it’s clearly ongoing.
Same charge as if it were telephone harassment/threats/extortion. Unfortunately, law hasn’t caught up with The Internet just yet in all cases.
I’ll update as I have more info that I can share.
I see, so under current law, the accused is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. So the case is not “closed.”
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You should edit the article to reflect this reality.
Yeah, just removed the “case closed” from the title.
Gee, Keith, always nice to hear from someone with your rather “special” grasp of all the right answers.
“Police showing up at one’s door is a common occurance.”
Perhaps in your case…
Why is that, I wonder?
Oh, and it’s “occurrence”, incidentally.
Stay safe. There are 345 like minded crackers out there.
crackers, griffs, germonios are different
But in all, the wuwt is such an institution of contrarianism that it seriously attracts sick world saviours. From both ends. It is good to keep some distance.
You can say all kinds of crazy stuff and get away with it. Some stuff slides over into criminal law, and that you can’t get away with. A credible death threat will produce a criminal conviction. That, in turn, will keep the troll on the Canadian side of the border.
Saying things and harassing are two different things.
Here’s the relevant Canadian law.
The penalty is as much as five years in prison.
There is also law against harassment but it’s sometimes hard to get the police to deal with it. Threatening, on the other hand, is clear cut and the police are quite willing to lay charges.
Hugs: I don’t know. Looking at the US political situation, saying things and harassing seem to be considered basically the same thing.
commiebob
Thinking about a North Wall?
Folks with criminal records have a hard time getting into the United States.
Don’t know if it still holds, but several years ago some friends of mine tried to go through Canada on their way to Alaska for summer work. They were stopped at the border because both had DUI’s on their U.S. driving records. Canada wouldn’t even let them drive through.
Anthony, you should sue DeSmogBlog (or that similar site) for its malicious falsehoods and misleading insinuations.
The thought has crossed my mind.
Well done Anthony!!
Once this scumbag was identified what are the specific consequences he faces from the authorities?
We’ll done, and good riddance! I once hacked a honepot to trap an internet troll in the 1990s on the Yahoo Finance message boards, which solved the problem. No troll can resist a well-crafted honeypot. It’s a compulsion.
Yep, they just can’t resist. I dangled what he wanted and he went for the honey.
Specifically, did he offer at any time to stop doing something nasty in return for money?
Yes, on at least two occasions.
woops….that’s extortion….that ups the game to a whole new level
@Latitude: Good Point.
@Anthony: Good for you! Discretion is the better part of valor to be sure, gauge carefully when/if you will disclose all. I’m glad you took the initiative and fought back: now you need to do for you. This has been an attack for over a year now? That takes a toll. Don’t let it leave a stain. The guy is a crackpot, but don’t let it go internally more than that–non-invasive virtual hugs and good thoughts coming your way. You and your family deserve didn’t deserve any of this. So persecute, and then my modest advice? Let it go, move on. Nothing is worse for a troll than non-attention. And if in the future you start getting other letters of a similar kind? Engage someone else to read and evaluate them.
Magnificent.