New Hampshire woman Amy Molter, who was 46, was reported missing on August 10th. The next day, police entering her ex-boyfriend's apartment found Molter dead on the living room floor of a gunshot to the head. Her ex-boyfriend, Rudy Ferretti, was found in his bedroom on the bed, also dead, with the gun next to him.
Ferretti was a "retro" gamer who held several records in old console-style games. He was also notoriously misogynist, believing that video games were the exclusive province of males and women were trying to "invade" and "destroy" video games. He was reported to law enforcement on many occasions for threats of violence and encouraging campaigns of harassment against women involved in gaming, whether as gamers themselves or in at least one case a woman who was hired by Twin Galaxies, the more-or-less "official" records-keeper for gaming achievements.
Ferretti was a "retro" gamer who held several records in old console-style games. He was also notoriously misogynist, believing that video games were the exclusive province of males and women were trying to "invade" and "destroy" video games. He was reported to law enforcement on many occasions for threats of violence and encouraging campaigns of harassment against women involved in gaming, whether as gamers themselves or in at least one case a woman who was hired by Twin Galaxies, the more-or-less "official" records-keeper for gaming achievements.
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Longtime members of the retro and arcade gaming scene say they warned community leaders and even police about Ferretti’s threatening behavior for years. For close to a decade, they say, Ferretti had harassed, stalked, and threatened gamers, particularly women, pushing some out of the niche gaming scene entirely. He flashed guns in tirade YouTube videos and bragged on Facebook about bringing one to an event at the Museum of Pinball in 2017. Arcade game collector and researcher Catherine DeSpira and video game historian and storage auction buyer Patrick Scott Patterson—two of Ferretti’s most public targets—say they collectively contacted police in different states a half-dozen times to report Ferretti’s threats against themselves and others. They say those attempts ultimately had no effect. All the while, clusters of retro gamers across the country egged Ferretti on in private messages and on forums, leveraging his apparent instability and misogynist inclinations against women they didn’t want in the scene. “You’d think anyone would look at it and go, ‘Hey, this guy’s gone, out there,’” says Patterson. “But people weren’t doing it. They were emboldening it, pushing him, giving him a support system.” |
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