Hah, I was also thinking Florida based on:
- Time zone - east coast
- Coastal - said he was watching the sunset over the sea - if taken literally, would require a western facing coast in the eastern time zone, so Florida -
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/zoosadism-megathread.47973/page-40#post-3785793
- Fire ants - not totally sold on this, but it fits with the above
- Florida stereotypes
Of course, all :autism: speculation.
Ah, damn. I was preparing this angle myself. One caveat: it does not necessarily require a west-facing state coastline to observe sunset over a body of water he might call the "sea". Horizon at sea-level is about 5km away from an observer. Any beach that provides a west-facing viewing angle over a body of water, and places the opposite coast greater than that distance away will appear to have a "sunset" over its water.
However, as I worked this angle I did also come to the same conclusion that he is almost certainly in the states below Virginia, specifically Florida and Georgia.
I'm still working on getting through the current evidence, but my next move was to attempt to hear echo on videos they claim to have made and determine the distance the echo traveled by multiplying the delay by the speed of sound.
It can be reasonably assumed that any human hearing sustained cries of agony from our most ancient of domesticated animals will recognize it and investigate it.
Using the approximate distance given by any echo in the outdoor recordings, you can attempt to establish a broad estimate for how far he would be from his nearest neighbor as a lower bound. By using this information in conjunction with census data about population density per-county, location can be further narrowed.
US Census, per-county population density:
https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/maps/thematic/us_popdensity_2010map.pdf (
https://dereferer.me/?https://imgur.com/a/TPFcc4r) (As this is a US government resource, and it's a PDF, I felt it was best to upload it to imgur for the archival rule.)
Sidenote: it helps to note here that Florida treats claims of bestiality as a misdemeanor. If it is assumed that these are adults living on their own, this criteria could have been paramount in selecting a residence. The cruelty present in this case has elements of planning, preparation, the execution takes a long time which means any outdoor videos of abuse are done in relatively private areas.