Mr. and Mrs. Hatchett,
I apologize for the necessity of this letter, but I am rapidly running out of options for a peaceful
resolution with your son, Ethan. I attempted to send Jan messages through social media
(Twitter, Facebook, her crafting website, and a text) over Friday, June 17 and Saturday, June 18.
I did not receive a reply, but Ethan had deleted his social media and YouTube account that he
has been using to harass my family for several months. When he did that, I had assumed that
my messages had come through. Unfortunately, Ethan restored his Twitter and YouTube
account and has resumed his harassment of our family. Because of this, I will assume that you
did not receive my original messages from the 17th and 18th. Please excuse the length of this
letter, but I feel that some background information will help to illuminate the desperate
situation that I find myself in, and my ultimate desire here is that you find your son some help
before my hand is forced to seek justice through the criminal legal system.
My wife, Ariana and I are both Christians, and both homeschool(ed) our 5 children, so I’m
hoping that setting up some common ground will help you understand our situation.
Background:
In early July 2020, our oldest child and only girl, Faith, vanished from our home only a few
months after she graduated high school. She was 18 at the time. We discovered that she’d
been in contact for several months with a 34-year-old man named Ethan Oliver Ralph, a live
streamer who does a show called The Killstream. Mr. Ralph convinced Faith to leave our home
in the middle of the night, paid for a ride to the airport, and flew her across the
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country to the
Mr. Ralph’s mother’s home (where he also lived) in Richmond, VA.
Faith, at the time, was silently suffering from severe depression, and needed medication. Mr.
Ralph, promising her a life of wealth, fame, and freedom manipulated her. Faith was in
Richmond for approximately 4 months. While she was there, Mr. Ralph kept her plied with
alcohol and drugs. Impregnated her. Released a sexually explicit video of her without her
consent (a crime colloquially known as “Revenge Porn” (for which he was convicted on January
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5, 2022) and assaulted her when she refused to engage in a sexual threesome with him and
another woman named Amanda Morris. This assault, which occurred in mid-November in a DC
hotel Room (while she was 2 months pregnant, no less) was the final event that convinced Faith
to fly home. There is, of course, a great deal more that happened in that time and our fight to
get her away from Mr. Ralph, but this paraphrase should be enough for any parents to
understand that our life was an absolute nightmare for those 4 months while we tried to do
what we could within the bounds of the law to save our daughter’s life.
Mr. Ralph, known for harassing people online and working through fans or sycophants of his to
make people’s life miserable if he feels that they are his enemy, did not stop his onslaught once
Faith was home. His continued actions led us to get a restraining order for myself, my wife, and
our 4 boys (ages 17, 13, 8, and 5), while Faith had to seek her own restraining order for herself
and her son, Alexander (born late May 2021, happy, healthy, and just had celebrated his first
birthday). While we wish that he was born under different circumstances, he’s a wonderful
little baby.
While Faith has completely cleaned up from this very short period of her life (no more drugs, no
more alcohol, getting therapy and the correct medication), Mr. Ralph has remained a thorn in
our side, violating restraining orders, and spreading lies about how “his” son has been stolen.
His audience is largely comprised of radicals, so they buy into whatever he says as truth, and
then harass us on his behalf. One of these fans is your son, Ethan.
Ethan operates via an online persona he refers to as “The Laughing Daiymo.” I will not bother to
include the many disgusting lies and rumors that Ethan has spread about my family, or his
endless attacks on my daughter, or his creation of a fake account posing as my minor son
:
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dropping into numerous chats to claim that I’m abusing my children. If you want details, I’ll give
them to you. But so you don’t doubt that this “Laughing Daiymo” is your son, here is a screen
cap from one of his videos so you can identify him
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He has made appearances on Mr. Ralph’s stream several times. There are no doubts that they
two communicate privately.
Until recently, Ethan’s rude, sick attacks have been little more than an annoyance, and my
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family ignores him. Unfortunately, this changed a little over a week ago, when Ethan teased a
video, promising to expose the “truth” about my daughter. The video was a slow pan down to a
blood-stained bathtub, and a slow zoom to a red Composition Book journal with her name on it.
Faith immediately recognized the journal as her therapy journal she used when she was
checked in to the George Washington University medical center when Mr. Ralph released the
revenge porn.
This journal remained in Mr. Ralph’s possession, even after he was commanded to return all of
Faith’s property. He claimed that it was lost. Obviously, there is no doubt that Mr. Ralph and his
fiancé, Amanda Morris (the same woman who tried to help Ralph manipulate Faith into a
sexual threesome) mailed this journal to your son for the purposes of using it to harass my
daughter. In fact, the note included with the journal, which read “Diary of a whory kid, please
enjoy” was definitively written by Ms. Morris.
The teasing of releasing this the contents of this journal (stolen property, that Ethan accepted)
officially crossed a line. This is when I reached out to Jan through various online methods. To be
clear, I only made one contact through Twitter, Facebook, Jan’s crafting website contact page,
and a text to what a background report showed was a current mobile number. If you received
any voice calls or other contacts, those did not come from me, and were not sanctioned by me.
Apparently, Ethan told people online that I was harassing your family. I don’t know if anyone
else was or honestly if anything he says is true. But you should know that’s not how my family
operates.
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On Saturday, June 18th, Ethan contacted Faith through Twitter, showed her a receipt from the
post office in Macon, GA, and said he was returning the journal, and asked that we “leave his
family alone.” He then deleted his Twitter account, and his YouTube account.
Less than a week later, the accounts returned, and Ethan revealed he had copied the journal
and intended to continue with his planned exposé. To be clear, this exposé was your son and a
European streamer (who has gone by many online personas—the one we know him best as is
Phantom Organization but is also known as DJ Axel or Monkey Biz), reading my daughter’s
therapy journal to a live audience. I’m sure that you can agree that this is disgusting behavior.
After their first stream, Ethan and Phantom organization stated a financial goal of $1,000 in
donations to release the full PDF of Faith’s journal. Faith, refusing to be more of a victim to
these antics, released the remainder of the journal, so that she could take control of her own
humiliation and not let your son and Phantom Organization profit from criminally violating her
privacy, and causing her additional harassment.
Approximately 9 hours after Faith posted the journal, a line was crossed that I cannot ignore,
and have been forced to act on.
While my wife and I were away for a weekend, at approximately 2AM PST, our children were
“swatted.” If you are unfamiliar with the term, let me explain:
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Faith was staying at our house to help watch her little brothers while we were away. So, in the
house, there was a 20-year-old woman, her 1-year-old son, and her brothers, ages 17, 13, 8,
and 5. In the middle of the night, an emergency call came in to our local sheriff’s department,
claiming that Faith had shot her boyfriend and was going to kill herself. This is obviously
untrue, as Faith’s boyfriend lives in San Diego, 10 hours from our home. This is the seriousness
of this type of call:
At 2AM, 6 police units arrive at my home, including at least one officer with a ballistic shield
and shotgun. Multiple armed officers were giving my oldest son and my daughter commands at
gunpoint. Hands up. Turn around. Walk backwards. Get on knees. Cuffed. Put in the back of a
police car. My 13-year-old, who was still in the house watching over his infant nephew, was
commanded out, taking his nephew with him. He was marched outside in his underpants and
no shoes and marched across our lawn barefoot to give Faith her son (after the police released
her handcuffs). My 8-year-old was allowed to remain, terrified, inside the home alone with his
5-year-old brother who blessedly remained asleep during the ordeal, as police came through
my home checking every room and close for a dead body.
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I hope that the seriousness of this situation is not lost. People have been killed from “swatting”
tactics because the ones who have been reported, having done nothing wrong, may react
wrong or panic—especially a house full of children. One wrong move. One hand in the pocket
too fast, could lead to a major tragedy. Fortunately, my daughter and oldest sons have been
taught that this type of “attack” has been a possibility for the last two years. So they handled
themselves very well, despite the fact that it was two in the morning and everyone was tired.
Nonetheless, my wife and I are very angry. The timing of this attack is too coincidental to
assume that Ethan was not involved, and there are simply some things that are out of my
hands. Our local sheriff’s office is investigating the call, as is the police department in Rocklin,
California, where my business is located. They received the same call at approximately the
same time. They will undoubtedly be working with the FBI to investigate, since the perpetrator
almost certainly operated across state lines. “Swatting” is a felony, a federal crime, and those
who do it can be charged with attempted murder.
While I believe that Ethan was the one responsible for this “swatting,” it is largely irrelevant. It
would have never happened were it not for these online antics. Ethan has no part in our
dealings with Ethan Ralph, and he should stay out of it. Some irritating though largely harmless
online trolling is one thing, putting my children’s lives in danger is entirely unacceptable.
That said, I have no desire to ruin the life of a young man who has clearly been caught up in
something far more serious than he
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understands. Please reach out to me. Please talk to Ethan.
Convince him to turn over evidence showing his communications with Mr. Ralph or Ms. Morris.
Ultimately, this all comes back to Ethan Oliver Ralph, who is using your son to attack my family
so he can avoid the legal consequences of .violating multiple restraining orders. If your son can
help us, I will do everything in my power to convince authorities that he has also been a victim
of Mr. Ralph’s influence
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I’m sending this letter to you via USPS overnight mail so that you understand how seriously I am
taking this matter. Please contact me immediately. I am not a troll. My family are real people. I
have included my business e-mail address and my personal cell phone number, and my home
address, so that you know who I am, and that I am a real person.
I hope to hear from you as soon as possible before this escalates to a point that cannot be fixed.
From everything I can see, you are both decent people, and I hate that we must meet this way.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Best Regards,
Matthew W. Vickers
