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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Target of an Alleged Proud Boys Plot Has Been Found Murdered in El Mirage (AZ)
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https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/tom-retzlaff-found-dead-proud-boys-jason-van-dyke-el-mirage-12117784
A man who allegedly was the previous target of a surveillance and assassination plot by a former attorney for the Proud Boys was found murdered in El Mirage, Arizona, earlier this month.
On September 1, 2021, El Mirage Police Department officers discovered 55-year-old Thomas Christopher Retzlaff dead at his home with unspecified "fatal injuries" after responding to a welfare check requested by his wife, according to agency spokesperson Timothy Mason. The Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner later ruled the death a homicide.
In recent years, Retzlaff had been entangled in a vicious and convoluted legal battle with Jason Van Dyke, a Texas-based attorney who is a former Proud Boys member and once served as the group's lawyer.
Van Dyke filed a $100 million libel lawsuit in federal court in 2018 accusing Retzlaff of falsely calling him a Nazi and a pedophile in blog posts. Retzlaff had also filed bar complaints against Van Dyke in an attempt to derail his potential job as a prosecutor in the Victoria County District Attorney's Office, according to a report by The Daily Beast.
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The Target of an Alleged Proud Boys Plot Has Been Found Murdered in El Mirage (AZ) (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Oct 2021
OP
Yuck that area is so right wing and off the beaten track of the greater Phoenix area.
kimbutgar
Oct 2021
#3
Too many Nazi assholes if you search for a three word name and get two famous ones
lostnfound
Oct 2021
#5
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)1. Um ... found murdered ... a month ago?
Why is this not national news?
lostnfound
(16,190 posts)4. Why is this not national news? Is a good question. Nt
marybourg
(12,634 posts)2. Lots of drug-dealing gang activity there.
kimbutgar
(21,188 posts)3. Yuck that area is so right wing and off the beaten track of the greater Phoenix area.
I driven my there many times going to and from Phoenix.
lostnfound
(16,190 posts)5. Too many Nazi assholes if you search for a three word name and get two famous ones
If the name Jason Van Dyke seems familiar, you have to be specific whether its the Nazi-pedophile -TX version Jason Van Dyke or the quasi-Nazi killer cop Illinois version of Jason Van Dyke.