A racist and frequently rambling online poster who is accused of breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's California home and brutally beating her husband with a hammer also appears to have questioned the outcome of the 2020 election, defended the late President Donald Trump, and echoed QAnon conspiracy theories.
David DePape, 42, was born and raised in Powell River, British Columbia, but left around 20 years ago to move to San Francisco with an older partner. Berkeley, a college town in the Bay Area, had a street address for DePape that directed to a post office box at a UPS Store.
Early on Friday, DePape was detained at the Pelosi residence. Brooke Jenkins, the district attorney for San Francisco, stated that she planned to bring several felonies, including attempted murder and assault.
The suspect, according to stepfather Gene DePape, was a peaceful youngster who lived with him in Canada until he was 14 years old.
Despite his extreme seclusion and excessive video game playing, Gene DePape claimed that David was never violent and was never in trouble.
He claimed he hasn't seen his stepson since 2003 and has made numerous unsuccessful attempts to get in touch with him over the years.
When I called to speak to him in 2007, his fiancée hung up on me, according to Gene DePape.
In Berkeley, David DePape was well-known as a pro-nudity activist who picketed bare during demonstrations against municipal laws forcing people to wear clothing in public.
According to Gene DePape, his son's girlfriend who he accompanied to California was named Gypsy, and the two of them were parents to two kids. According to his stepfather, DePape also has a child from a previous relationship.
At the 2013 wedding of pro-nudity campaigner Gypsy Taub, who was marrying another guy, DePape was seen frolicking naked outside city hall with dozens of other guests, according to photos released by The San Francisco Chronicle on Friday. Taub did not return calls or messages on Friday.
According to a 2013 article in The Chronicle, David DePape was a "hemp jewellery maker" who shared a Victorian apartment in Berkeley with Taub. Taub was the host of the talk show "Uncensored 9/11" on local public access TV, where she appeared naked and promoted theories that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were "an inside job."
Under the name David DePape, two web blogs were recently published online. These blogs included rants about technology, aliens, communists, religious minorities, transexuals, and world elites.
A post from August 24 named "Q" featured a disgusting mix of memes, including images of the late sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, and made mention to QAnon, the unfounded pro-Trump conspiracy theory that claims the government is controlled by a deep state.
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