Chris Hansen/Harassment

September 21, 2022: Anonymous Gene claims he financed Chris Hansen's doorstep confrontation to induce Onision's murder/suicide

On September 21, 2022, Anonymous Gene sent Onision a Google Voice message claiming that he paid for Chris Hansen and

Hansen's entire crew to fly to Onision's home and confront him at his front door.

Gene expressly identified his purpose:

"I paid for Chris and the entire crew, to fly to your house and knock on the door.... Just because I wanted to see if you would kill yourself like the last guy that had Hansen knock on his door."

Gene continued:

"You disappoint me daily greg. I'm patiently waiting for that murder / suicide.... because if you don't take out Taylor...? I'll buy her a house too, and furnish it.... Just to have Hansen interview her."

Gene claimed financial responsibility for the doorstep operation

Gene's own message states that he paid for:

"Chris and the entire crew"

to fly to Onision's home and knock on the door.

Gene did not describe the trip as journalism, service of process, public-safety activity, or an attempt to obtain a fair response. He described it as an operation funded because he wanted to see whether the confrontation would cause Onision to die by suicide.

The message therefore documents:

Gene claiming that he financed Hansen's travel and crew;
Gene identifying Onision's private home as the destination;
Gene identifying a doorstep confrontation as the planned act;
Gene expressly identifying suicide as the desired result;
Gene linking the operation to a prior death associated with Hansen's television work;
Gene later demanding a murder-suicide involving Onision and Lucas.

This is direct evidence of malicious intent behind Gene's claimed financial involvement in the doorstep campaign.

Gene invoked the Louis Conradt death

Gene's reference to:

"the last guy that had Hansen knock on his door"

tracks the death of Louis William Conradt Jr. during a 2006 Dateline NBC: To Catch a Predator operation.

Conradt died by suicide inside his home while police entered and members of the NBC production waited outside to film the arrest.

In Conradt v. NBC Universal, Inc., a federal judge ruled that the principal claims against NBC could proceed. The court stated that a reasonable jury could find that NBC pushed police into unnecessary and unwise tactics for dramatic television footage, created a substantial risk of suicide or other harm, and engaged in conduct so extreme that no civilized society should tolerate it.

NBC later settled the lawsuit brought by Conradt's estate.

Gene's message shows that he knew this history and allegedly sought to recreate its fatal result at Onision's home.

Sources concerning the Conradt incident:

An express murder-suicide fantasy directed at Onision and Lucas

Gene stated that he was:

"patiently waiting for that murder / suicide"

He then urged Onision to:

"take out Taylor"

The reference was to Lucas. Gene was therefore encouraging Onision to kill Lucas and then die by suicide.

This was not political commentary, criticism, parody, or legal advocacy. It was targeted psychological abuse directed at a married couple and their household, written by a person already engaged in repeated unwanted communications and neighborhood harassment.

The message was designed to:

encourage Onision's suicide;
encourage the murder of Lucas;
terrorize both members of the household;
celebrate the possibility of their deaths;
exploit an earlier televised suicide as a model;
reinforce Gene's claimed connection to Chris Hansen;
demonstrate that Gene viewed fatal harm as the desired conclusion of his campaign.

Criminal stalking and harassment implications

Federal stalking law applies when a person uses interstate travel or electronic communications as part of a course of conduct undertaken with intent to kill, injure, harass, or intimidate and the conduct causes, attempts to cause, or would reasonably be expected to cause substantial emotional distress.

See 18 U.S.C. 2261A.

Federal law also treats a person who aids, abets, counsels, induces, finances, or procures a federal offense as a principal.

See 18 U.S.C. 2.

Gene's claim that he financed travel to Onision's home for the stated purpose of provoking suicide is highly probative of intent, procurement, participation, and motive within a federal stalking analysis.

Washington criminal-harassment law applies to qualifying threats of bodily injury or malicious acts intended to substantially harm another person's physical health or safety when the threats create reasonable fear.

See RCW 9A.46.020.

Washington stalking law addresses repeated intentional harassment that causes substantial emotional distress or fear of injury to a person or property.

See RCW 9A.46.110.

Washington also classifies knowingly causing or aiding another person's suicide attempt as a class C felony.

See RCW 9A.36.060.

Gene's expressed desire to cause suicide, his encouragement of Lucas's murder, his claimed financing of a confrontation at the family home, and his wider course of repeated harassment are evidence of criminal stalking intent and conduct directed toward the physical and psychological safety of Onision and Lucas.

Property and trespass evidence to preserve

Gene claimed that he financed the trip to Onision's private residence.

The related security footage, property boundaries, posted notices, communications denying access, police reports, and complete recordings of the doorstep incident should be preserved to establish whether members of the operation knowingly entered or remained unlawfully on the property under Washington's criminal-trespass statute.

See RCW 9A.52.080.

Those records may also establish the extent to which Gene financed, procured, or encouraged physical intrusion upon the family's residence as part of his harassment campaign.

Harm to Onision, Lucas, and their children

Gene's message gave Onision and Lucas reason to understand that a hostile stalker claimed to possess the money and relationships necessary to send a media crew across the country to their private home.

Gene then stated that the intended outcome was suicide and encouraged the murder of Lucas.

The resulting harm included:

fear that Gene would finance additional confrontations;
fear that Hansen or other campaign participants would again appear at the residence;
concern that Gene wanted Onision and Lucas dead;
emotional distress caused by direct murder-suicide encouragement;
loss of safety and privacy at the family home;
danger to the children living in the household;
concern that online stalkers were coordinating with financially supported media participants;
continuing fear that Gene's fixation would escalate further.

Onision and Lucas had the legal right to live safely in their own home without a stalker financing doorstep confrontations, encouraging suicide, demanding spousal murder, or using their children and residence as instruments of psychological terror.

Source

Google Voice message attributed to Anonymous Gene and dated September 21, 2022.

The message was captured using computer screen-capture software.