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:
- Murfreesfurs: Tennessee’s Most Problematic Furry Community (450+ pages)
- Murfreesfurs & A Problematic Furry Community East TN Doc (140+ pages, with announcement channel)
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.”