Man convicted for triple murder after 'furry convention' obsession with teenager

Furry Frank Felix plotted to execution the parents of a 17-year-old miss aft gathering her astatine a furry normal that she had been brought to by her mother

A US tribunal has heard the lawsuit of an obsessive "furry" who was progressive successful plotting the murder of 3 people, including the parent and stepfather of a teenage girl helium was infatuated with. Frank Sato Felix, 33, from California, has been recovered blameworthy of participating successful a 2016 strategy that resulted successful the deaths of 3 adults successful Los Angeles.

Tragically, the gruesome country was discovered by 2 young girls, aged conscionable six and nine. The victims were identified arsenic 39-year-old Jennifer Goodwill-Yost, her hubby 35-year-old Christopher Yost, and their person Arthur "Billy" Boucher, who was dormant connected the sofa astatine the time.

Investigations revealed that Felix had developed an obsession with Goodwill-Yost's past 17-year-old girl aft encountering her astatine a furry normal that she had brought her on to. Furries are a subculture of radical who formal up arsenic alternate carnal identities, which are typically wolves, dogs, foxes, oregon adjacent dragons with quality intelligence.

In the lead-up to the horrific events, Felix unleashed a chilling rant connected his Facebook aimed astatine an unidentified individual, reports the Mirror US. The post, which seemed to beryllium targeting idiosyncratic helium was adjacent to, ominously concluded with: "I cognize you'll inactive prevarication to maine you're conscionable acrophobic to beryllium unfastened with radical that tin raze you similar a European metropolis during the 2nd world warfare I conscionable anticipation you're gonna regret everything you've done to maine and everything you could've done and unrecorded with that guilt you've enactment connected yourself everyday."

In a disturbing Facebook connection sent conscionable 4 days earlier the murders, Felix, who adopted the persona Entey Felix online and wrong the furry community, told a pal astir his murderous intentions, writing: "I mightiness beryllium assisting idiosyncratic successful murder." The furry past appeared to downplay the severity of his words by adding: "It's conscionable sidesplitting an animal."

The person who received these messages admitted helium didn't instrumentality Felix seriously, saying: "I didn't instrumentality it for real," and expressing the trouble successful discerning whether idiosyncratic is being earnest oregon jesting: "You don't cognize if idiosyncratic is superior anymore oregon joking."

The 17-year-old miss progressive was introduced to the "furry" subculture by her mother.

This subculture is characterised by individuals donning carnal costumes and gathering astatine conventions. It was astatine 1 specified lawsuit that she encountered Felix, who was 25 astatine the time, and Joshua Charles Acosta, a 21-year-old Army mechanic.

Felix entered into a romanticist narration with the teenager, but her mother, Jennifer Goodwill-Yost, and stepfather Christopher did not o.k. of the narration owed to the important property difference.

On the nighttime of September 24, 2016, Acosta and Felix embarked connected their heinous ngo to assistance the 17-year-old miss successful fleeing her household home. As the Yost household and their houseguest, Arthur "Billy" Boucher, slipped into sleep, the deadly crippled unfolded with the miss joining Felix successful his truck, portion Acosta crept wrong equipped with a shotgun supplied by Felix.

In a cold-blooded spree, Acosta brutally executed 28-year-old Boucher with a changeable to the caput arsenic helium laic connected the surviving country couch, past callously murdered the girl's parent with a blast to the look successful the maestro bedroom. The stepfather's hopeless effort to fly was chopped abbreviated by a fatal headshot arsenic helium raced for the patio door.

The country of fearfulness continued arsenic Acosta near the bloodstained home, deserting the young Yost daughters - aged six and 9 - amidst the corpses of their parents and friend. Meanwhile, the conspirators, including the teenager, sought refuge astatine Felix's spot successful Sun Valley, wherever they acceptable their incriminating garments afire and strived to dismantle their physics tracks.

The dreadful greeting followed with the tiny Yost sisters awakening to the nightmare world of 3 lifeless bodies wrong their home, prompting an urgent 911 telephone for help. Fullerton Police Department aboriginal apprehended the culpable Felix astatine his Sun Valley residence, portion Acosta was seized wrong the confines of his subject barracks astatine Fort Irwin.

"Two small girls, six and nine, went to slumber not knowing the past clip they would spot their parents would beryllium erstwhile they woke up to find them changeable to death," Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said. "The trauma inflicted connected those small girls compounded by the nonaccomplishment of some of their parents successful specified a convulsive mode is beyond heart-breaking. Violence is ne'er the answer, and a sick and twisted program turned into beingness down bars for 2 young men."

Felix has been recovered blameworthy of 3 felony counts of first-degree execution and 3 felony enhancements of aggregate murders.

He's facing a maximum condemnation of beingness successful situation without the anticipation of parole and is owed to beryllium sentenced connected January 17, 2025. Acosta was handed a beingness condemnation without the accidental of parole backmost successful 2018.

Prosecutors did not complaint the 17-year-old miss arrested successful transportation with the triple homicide. Law enforcement besides declined astatine the clip to assertion she was the arrested teen, citing authorities privateness laws for minors.