Went down the
Lucifer Valentine /
Shawn Fedorchuk rabbithole again to see if any progress was made since 2021.
To briefly summarize this guy, he's a director of extreme horror ""films"" that are mostly raw footage of physical abuse with artsy undertones. His lead "actresses" were young women in great psychological distress, often drug addicts, who were in no condition to consent to their exploitation.
Multiple victims came out about the abuse 4 years ago. Here are accounts of the full story:
Reddit thread
Testimony. More victims speaking in the comments.
So, when I came back to the case, I was disappointed to find that not much happened other than there's a
subreddit dedicated to hunting him down online, but it's obscure and not very active.
A couple of interesting things that surfaced:
- Recent photographs of Shawn. Until then, there were only pictures and footage of him from the 1990's. At the time, he was the frontman of Canadian alternative band 'Kittens'. The lad is in his fifties now.
- Partial dox. He used to live on 1647 Ocean Front Walk Santa Monica, Cal. He currently lives in Seattle.
Folks claim to have his personal phone number and have tried to confront him.
Archive
- Pornographic content (NSFW). Shawn ran several porn websites in the 2000's. Since his sites are long gone, most of the content was lost, but a video starring Shawn has surfaced. He tried to conceal his face but the voice is a dead giveway.
Since the women featured in Shawn's works are generally abused / non-consenting I won't archive the video. Someone on Reddit did it though.
- Family info from an orbituary. Not super relevant though.
Things that are still missing that we need:
- Archives from Lucifer Valentine's Facebook groups.
Accounts are consistent in stating that these now deleted private groups – especially the very first one from the late 2000's / early 2010's – were used by predators to groom minors ; some were allegedly led to suicide. Shawn and his friend's moderation was described as passive, and they only deleted the first group when they feared there was a risk that victims would contact authorities.
Without concrete proof (screenshot, web archives) there's nothing that can be done.
The scarce nature of Fedorchuck's digital footprint indicates that there was some attempt at covering his tracks. As someone working in the music and cinema (Hollywood) industry with a decades-long internet history, there's surprisingly little left of Shawn's online activites from the 2000's.
Several people claim that he has personal connections to law enforcement folks. While that would explain his apparent impunity and the cleaning of his online activies, we don't have any proof of that.
About a potential thread:
Shawn isn't technically a "lolcow" so, while I'd really like to create a thread or to see one be created, I don't think it's on-brand enough to be justified. Although, being a satanist edgelord obsessed with Kurt Cobain and having lied about fucking his non-existent disabled sister for clout, he has some lolcow-ish undertones imo. He's still a piss/vomit/incest/gore fetishist after all.
Also, there isn't enough happening currently to keep a potential thread about him alive.
But I think people should be more aware of this creep. As long as he is free, he should live in fear, knowing that people won't forget what he did.