The “Autistic” Nazi murderer

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But a darker side of the teenager was emerging on social media. By November, Giampa, under his Twitter pseudonym, was referring to himself as a Nazi.

The warning signs were there, flaring up from Nicholas Giampa’s pseudonymous Twitter feed for over a year. The alt-right lingo and the swastikas. The advertisements of violence.

Giampa’s girlfriend’s parents, Buckley Kuhn-Fricker, 43, and Scott Fricker, 48, were aware of the teenager’s burgeoning extremism. Kuhn-Fricker had found frightening tweets from Giampa on her daughter’s phone. Twitter was where Giampa, a Papa John’s employee and an anime enthusiast, let his malevolence run amok.

Kuhn-Fricker and Fricker had seen enough to say something. Days later, Giampa fatally shot them in their Virginia home, police say.

HuffPost has found his tweets, written by “Kevin Gallo” under the handle @doctorpepper35. They suggest a 17-year-old who’d drifted beyond the trolling of his teenage peers on the internet far-right and was fully in thrall to the racist, apocalyptic fantasia of white nationalism.

As @doctorpepper35, Giampa tweeted about his hatred of transgender people and his admiration for Adolf Hitler. He tweeted about using Jews as target practice.

Almost three months before the murders, the teenager from Lorton, Virginia, praised a book called Siege, an obscure, ominous work written by James Mason, a neo-Nazi devotee of Charles Manson. The 1992 book, republished last year by hyperviolent white nationalist sect Atomwaffen Division, is essentially a call to “Helter Skelter” racist insurrection. Giampa also retweeted an endorsement of The Turner Diaries, William Luther Pierce’s infamous white nationalist novel about race war, often found on the bookshelf of American domestic terrorists.

Kuhn-Fricker had tried to keep her 16-year-old daughter away from Giampa. The teenagers met at the same private high school for students with special needs. One of Giampa’s family members described the boy as struggling with mental illness for years and being “on the spectrum” for autism.

Days before Kuhn-Fricker was murdered, she alerted the high school principal to neo-Nazi content on a Twitter account she believed was operated by Giampa, The Washington Post reported. Kuhn-Fricker urged her daughter to break up with Giampa and, after some initial resistance, the girl seemed to agree.

On Dec. 22, police say Giampa sneaked into his girlfriend’s house in Reston, Virginia, and shot Kuhn-Fricker and Fricker dead, then turned the gun on himself. Four other family members were in the house during the shooting, including the couple’s 10-year-old son, who was out on the lawn when police arrived, according to dispatch audio obtained by ABC7. Giampa is currently at the Reston Hospital Center, where he is being treated, under police guard, for life-threatening wounds, including what a family member described as a brain injury. Fairfax County Police Department has charged him as a minor for the murders of Fricker and Kuhn-Fricker, but they are waiting for his medical condition to improve before serving him, Reem Awad, a spokeswoman for the police department, said.

Great, just what we Aspies need. An insane Nazi killer as one of our number. It won't occur to the cretins who will assign this to the kid's Asperger's that most Nazis - murderers and non-murderers alike - are NT's.

Giving people the impression that we are all Angels of Light (as some wacky New Agers apparently believe us to be) is equally wrong, so if a "Nazi" is found to have Asperger's Syndrome, or something similar, then it is relevant to the story. The truth needs to be told, whether we like it or not, and the fact is that there are rotten Aspies as well as good ones.

The truth needs to be told, whether we like it or not, and the fact is that there are rotten Aspies as well as good ones.

No, we're not all angels, but neither are we all the potential killers those with a phobia for autistics think we all are when one of us commits an atrocity.

Im living proof that there are rotten aspires.

"...those with a phobia for autistics..." Can you name one such person? I'm not saying there isn't a great deal of misunderstanding out there amongst the so-called en-tees, but I also don't believe that anyone is literally afraid of us, which is, after all, what a phobia is. Like with spiders. Many are afraid of them, but they aren't afraid of us in the same way (or at all). If anything, most people who know anything at all about the condition feel sorry for us, because they can appreciate just how horrible it must be to be constantly clueless in social situations.

But during the Sandyhook shootings, I had read posts in the comment section of articles about how those of us with Asperger's are all potentially dangerous, and should even be put into internment camps.

Which just proves there are many stupid people out there who shouldn't have access to a computer. The comments sections of the various websites out there are THE worst places to go to find intelligent debate, insightful comments, or just plain common sense. Most of them are just trolls, pure and simple, and you really can't allow such nutcases to get to you, otherwise you will be perpetually angry (and who needs that?).