The Target of an Alleged Proud Boys Plot Has Been Found Murdered in El Mirage (AZ)

[Nevilledog]

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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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[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Um ... found murdered ... a month ago?

Why is this not national news?

[lostnfound]

4. Why is this not national news? Is a good question. Nt

[marybourg]

2. Lots of drug-dealing gang activity there.

[kimbutgar]

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]

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 it’s the Nazi-pedophile -TX version Jason Van Dyke or the quasi-Nazi killer cop Illinois version of Jason Van Dyke.