He demonstrated his hacking skills twice by shutting down the Senate website in 2009 and hacking into the Pentagon security system to shut it down, endangering the lives of countless U.S. He then began rapidly losing the large weight he had at the time to further corroborate his story.īefore Pelant became a serial killer, he was already a computer hacker who had a strong belief that the U.S. This distortion made it look like he was slim and using a heavier weapon, when in reality he was large and using a lighter weapon. At the time of the murder, Pelant was rather obese, however, he later placed pictures on an online yearbook from his high school making it appear that he was slim, therefore distorting the proportions of the force of the fatal blow and the weight of the murder weapon. He buried her hoping he would never get caught. Pelant then killed her with a katana he 'borrowed' from his grandfather, who obtained the weapon while serving in the Pacific theater during WWII. He hacked into her computer and wrote the recommendation himself. He asked her to write him a letter of recommendation for Stanford but she refused. By making it appear as though he wasn't Pelant, he evaded arrest.ĭuring high school, Pelant had a guidance counselor by the name of Carole Morrissey. He did this in order to escape arrest for a crime he committed during his teens that 'Christopher Pelant' could be tied to. He later used his distinctive hacking skills to erase his true identity, making it appear as though he was not an American but actually an Egyptian citizen, Bassam Alfayat, who had lived in Egypt until the age of six. According to Sweets in The Past in the Present, his parents divorced when he was young and he was close to his father, though they rarely saw each other afterward. Christopher Pelant was an American citizen who, according to Booth in The Corpse on the Canopy, was officially born in Denmark in 1986 and raised in the town of Pitt Meadows, Virginia.

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