Tennessee furry group leaders corrupted with predators and drug death: two evidence documents

by Patch O'Furr

SERIES: Who runs your community? Five stories about predators with powerful friends in fandom.

“We need justice”

MurfreesFurs, a furry group in Tennessee with around 1000 members, was the subject of an evidence document with 30 sources alleging that organizers covered up nazis and zoophiles in their inner circle, and failed to protect the community from predators. Sources face retaliation, and Dogpatch Press was pressured for suppression before even reporting. The shocking thing is, it was only part of the problem. A second evidence document came out independently from the first, alleging more serious complicity by MurfreesFurs organizers in CSAM, drug dealing and a fentanyl death. Sources include police reports and prison records.

The first and followup documents:

Reading almost 600 pages is a challenge, so it was boiled down by a two hour phone call with authors of the second doc, who are known but being protected from backlash here. The goal:

“If they’re responsible for a death, we firmly hope that justice is served for the family, and if kids and animals were harmed, we need justice for that too. It’s not enough to get them temporarily out of one hobby group and trust that they won’t just rebrand and come back.”

What Tennessee furry groups were involved

Regional furry groups involved include one for East Tennessee, and another one closer to the state center, who serve a few hundred members. There was no mention of Western Tennessee/Memphis (where Mephit Furmeet has been held since the 1990’s). Sources say that territorial issues are common regionally, but good group collaboration also reaches across states. There’s other center-regional groups, including one for Knoxville TN; and MurfreesFurs, which stood out from others and became ground zero for problems.

MurfreesFurs was unusual in size with around 1000 members from “all over”, not gathered organically by people knowing each other, but by recruiting with paid ads on TikTok. It targeted children as a supposed safe place for all ages. The main organizer of MurfreesFurs, Cade, was a minor when he started growing the group a few years ago.

Cade is a lynchpin of corruption in both evidence docs, although by serving as front guy and enabler to an even worse inner circle, including people who were already jailed. The circle was tied by co-housing, poly dating, and drug dealing protected by the management. Sources say these tight ties to Cade’s official team made conflicts of interest for coverups and grudges, so MurfreesFurs enabled predators and crime instead of serving community interest.

Common patterns and how much bigger this gets

It’s a story of patterns in common with many other corruption stories. Nazis get sympathy because they are friends, but their targets don’t get sympathy to protect them from bigotry. Nazi stuff is kept on the side in secret groups. A fellow organizer is caught conspiring on zoophile forums to rape animals, and gets no public consequence, just sympathy to protect reputations from being outed. There’s tears about a zoophile label ruining his life, but no concern about victims or alerting the community when he claims “trust me, I got better”, like a church moving a pedophile priest. Known drug dealers help run a group as a front for each other. Whistleblowers are smeared with manipulative labels against clout and cancel culture, and PR to keep the status quo.

From the first evidence doc:

The first evidence doc about Cade’s MurfreesFurs was treated as a tip of the iceberg by sources for the second, who said: “They have no clue how much bigger this gets.” The second evidence doc names more names.

It says evidence of drug dealing by Cade’s fellow organizer, Filthy, was carrying on the business of Filthy’s already-jailed friend, Zammy. Filthy was labeled Zammy’s “ambassador” and was head of a house called Musky Mansion. The possessions of Zammy were being kept for him at Musky Mansion until he got out of jail, and included a hard drive full of CSAM. House members were tasked with cleaning it, with jokes making it an open secret.

Meanwhile, Filthy was Cade’s official MurfreesFurs events coordinator. Cade’s boyfriend Dibbo was head of security for taking reports, making a conflict of interest for protecting the community from his own team. People at Musky Mansion expected to clean Zammy’s CSAM hard drive were biased in relationships, with the whole situation kept quiet under fear of police with drugs and guns in the house. Corruption was suppressed until their dating drama, high conflict, grudges and accusations at each other helped break it open. The hard drive was revealed as an afterthought! It has now been reported to police by people in the circle who decided to do the right thing, helped by community members who overcame suppression that silenced early whistleblowing.

Cavan “Zammy” Works – from doc and Rankin County Jail current inmate list

Fentanyl death, money, cons, and justice? 

Remember, the second document emerged independently from the first. The sources don’t know each other. It brings more evidence about MurfreesFurs organizer corruption on these points:

  • Events coordinator Filthy took over Zammy’s drug dealing and possessions while he is jailed.
  • Filthy’s house members were asked to clean up Zammy’s CSAM that went to police.
  • The coverup of a fentanyl death linked to Zammy, of a victim named Prettywizard.

Here’s what the authors said to end our phone call:

MurfreesFurs management helped run a drug business under their watchful eye WHILE THEY ADVERTISE TO KIDS. We’ve been observing for a while and it keeps getting worse. We don’t know how many people could be involved.

Why is there no accountability for the death of Prettywizard? A fentanyl death could bring manslaughter or murder charges. We don’t know why, but suspect loopholes in making a case. The victim’s mother attended Furry Weekend Atlanta in hope to confront Zammy, with con staff prepared to step in if it got ugly.

We know Zammy plans to return to cons when he gets out of jail, and expect him to resume drug dealing there, like he has always done.

The drug dealing business that continued when he went to jail WAS MEANT TO FUND A CON!

We also found close ties to a rave event named RAVEFURREST and have taken action about it.

We took care to put many links in the doc, and took this to the level of law enforcement, with a case number you can look up.

If they’re responsible for a death, we firmly hope that justice is served for the family, and if kids and animals were harmed, we need justice for that too. It’s not enough to get them temporarily out of one hobby group and trust that they won’t just rebrand and come back. Who runs a furry group isn’t our big priority, but if MurfreesFurs continues to exist, we hope they get better people in charge. The community doesn’t feel safe. Voices are being silenced under threats of bans. 

Bringing this out wouldn’t be possible without a team. It’s a collective effort that takes a village, and is nobody’s one doing, but we’re thankful to everyone who has priorities in the right place.

Cade’s management recently moved to a Discord group, with staff replacement that is being criticized as performative PR, after being forced by extreme effort to expose corruption that continues to be suppressed. Critics want permanent resignations from the community and complete public transparency.

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