MEGADETH - 'Killing Is My Business' Online Radio Request Leads To Arrest
September 1, 2011, 12 years ago
Vincent McDermott at The Windsor Star has filed the following report:
The sinister tone of a song request on a Windsor-based internet radio show raised alarm signals for the show's hosts, and police in Wisconsin are crediting the duo's quick thinking for stopping someone threatening a potential shooting spree.
Trevor Fenton and Pat Ryan, hosts of The MeltDown Show on HardRockRadioLive, were taking song requests on Tuesday afternoon when a listener logged into the station's chat room as, "Watch_The_National_new_tomorrow_I_am_going_to_go_a_shooting_spree_in_Appleton_WI."
The listener asked the hosts to play 'Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good' by the American heavy metal band MEGADETH, writing that it would be "good music to go postal & kill a bunch of people to."
"We had to take that threat seriously, we couldn't ignore him. That was something we just couldn't ignore and not report," said Ryan. "It could have been a prank. But if he was serious and something happened, I wouldn't have been able to live with myself."Fenton contacted the Appleton Police Department and allowed an officer to access the website, while Ryan played the song to keep the listener online.
Local police and the FBI conducted an investigation and arrested David J. Lefever, 44, of Appleton, Wisconsin.
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