“I want to be known as the Idaho murderer, I want to be known like Ted Bundy,” said a man in Georgia who used social media as a vehicle to harass and terrify his victims.
Emerson Guevara sent threats of violence to seven victims via various platforms, including TikTok, Discord, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger.
Guevara has a pattern of harassment and violence online. He allegedly threatened his first victim (victim one) via TikTok and Discord, but initially contacted victim one when they were live-streaming on the popular short-form social media platform.
He began sending victim one gifts, virtual tokens bought using real currency. After receiving some disturbing messages from Guevara on Discord, victim one blocked him until he joined their TikTok live and began threatening them.
Derogatory messages calling victim one “a f**king wh*re” ensued and escalated to the point where Guevara said that he’s going to find the person and “skin (them) from head to toe” and eat them.
While the gender of Guevara’s victims wasn’t explicitly stated in the arrest warrant, it can be inferred from the man’s language that most of his victims were female.
Guevara allegedly threatened multiple times to “commit a mass shooting,” and referenced an unknown event that victim one was supposedly attending.
His first victim’s husband was in the TV show Dexter, and there was supposedly an upcoming premiere on the date after these messages were sent.
When Guevara was eventually interviewed by the FBI in Atlanta, he openly admitted to sending these threatening messages using his phone while on TikTok.
He also admitted that he wanted to scare victim one and “understood how someone could take those statements as threats,” the arrest warrant found by Court Watch, reads.
Guevara then allegedly victimized several other people in a similar fashion, even after he was questioned by authorities.
However, his behaviour escalated. This time, Guevara threatened to find his victims and rape them.
Despite several failed attempts by law enforcement to curb his threatening behaviour, Guevara went on to victimize several other people.
Victim five was told that they would be raped and killed by Guevara after he sent advances via TikTok that were subsequently rejected.
He told victim five via Instagram that he was going to commit a mass shooting and sent the person pictures of weapons like AR-15s. However, the FBI was unable to interview Guevara’s fifth victim.
Guevara was later tracked down after moving from Baltimore to Georgia and interviewed by police. He lied about his whereabouts, saying he was in one area but later admitting that he was in Georgia.
While being interviewed, he told police that the threat was “a joke” and that “he wanted to see if he could trigger the notification system,” the warrant reads.
However, with the threat of a mass shooting on their hands, FBI agents had to take Guevara’s words at face value.
Agents stormed Guevara’s Georgia address and conducted a search of the antagonist’s bedroom after obtaining consent from Guevara’s mother.
Guevara lived with his parents and sibling at the time of his online rampage.
While searching his room, agents found one AR rifle, one upper receiver, a K-Bar knife, multiple magazines, 5.56mm ammunition, and a Kevlar helmet.
Guevara was taken by police on “an involuntary hold due to mental health concerns” and the weapons were seized by authorities.
Several months later, Guevara allegedly sent racist, sexist, and violent messages to victim six and claimed to know where they lived.
However, it didn’t stop there, as Guevara contacted his seventh victim via Facebook Messenger, threatening to come to their house to rape and kill them.
Guevara allegedly said that he wanted “to be known as the Idaho murderer,” wanted to be a prolific killer like Ted Bundy, and threatened to kill victim seven.
When virtual harassment leads to murder
There have been many instances where online harassment and violence have bled into the real world.
One instance involved the murder of beauty influencer Valeria Marquez, who was shot dead while live-streaming on TikTok.
According to videos uploaded to X, Marquez was sitting at a table holding a stuffed animal toy while on the popular social media platform TikTok.
The man then attacked Marquez with the weapon and “apparently fired a gun at her,” states the Jalisco state prosecutor's office.
TikTok, Instagram, and other social media platforms have become a hotbed for online harassment and cyberstalking.
Another case reported by Cybernews showed a woman who assumed the identities of several pregnant teenagers to stalk and harass her victims.
Gabryele “Gabby” Watson cyberstalked two families, pretending to have babies for them to adopt.
She communicated with the families via social media, threatening to kill both couples and even one couple’s children.
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