How 764’s Online Satanists Snare Our Kids—And What the Church Must Do Now
Imagine a 13-year-old girl, painfully shy and wrestling with his identity, typing “I got some stuff going on that I want to live for lol”—only to be manipulated into livestreaming her suicide hours later.
That’s Jay Taylor’s story, exposed this month in a gut-wrenching Washington Post investigation.
As the ringleader, a German medical student alias ‘White Tiger,’ faces 200+ charges, we’re forced to ask:
How did ‘ghouls’ in online shadows like the 764 group turn Discord chats into death sentences?
And why has it taken three years for justice?
Jay Taylor, a transgender teen from the quiet Seattle suburb of Gig Harbor, was found dead on January 17, 2022, after hanging herself in a grocery store parking lot.
What seemed like a tragic suicide quickly unraveled into something far darker: her iPhone, propped nearby, had broadcast her final moments on Instagram to a live audience of predators who egged her on.
“You got a rope?” one messaged. Another urged her to do it naked because it would be “hotter.”
Jay’s parents, who supported her desire to identify as a male, were left devastated, but the real horror lay in the twisted network behind it.
The investigation plunged FBI Agent Pat McMonigle into the abyss of “764”—a violent online cult named after a Texas zip code, founded by a 15-year-old who built a forum for victimizing mentally ill kids.
Through Discord self-harm chats, members like ‘White Tiger’—identified as 21-year-old Shahriar, an Iranian-born German medical student—lured vulnerable teens with feigned affection, then blackmailed them with nudes into self-mutilation, carving swastikas or names in blood, and even suicide.
Shahriar allegedly mentored a 12-year-old Scandinavian girl, herself a victim, to recruit Jay by faking a joint suicide pact.
Despite Jay’s hesitance—”just dont kys without me”—White Tiger took over, directing the gruesome finale.
This isn’t just cyberbullying; it’s ritualized evil.
FBI reports confirm 764 members boast of Satanist ties, blending nihilism with extremism—bragging about livestreamed beheadings, child abuse, and terrorist plans found in Shahriar’s raid, including car bomb instructions and chemical weapons.
McMonigle, a former counter-terrorism agent, likened it to al-Qaeda but worse: no caves, just global predators evading jurisdiction.
He quit the FBI from the mental toll, but in June 2025, German authorities finally arrested Shahriar after U.S. subpoenas cracked Discord and Instagram servers.
Now facing 204 charges, including Jay’s murder and harming 30+ teens across countries, Shahriar’s defense claims it’s about “internet regulation,” not guilt.
The complicity is staggering: Tech platforms host these groups, bureaucracies drag their feet, and too often, churches stay silent.
As the Daily Mail detailed, Shahriar planned to use his medical career to hunt victims in person—evil evolving from digital to real-world terror.
Recent X posts echo the outrage, with users warning of 764’s rise in coercing kids.
In my book When Evil Stops Hiding, I pull back the curtain on 764 and kin like The Com and Order of Nine Angles—not as sensational true crime, but as a spiritual exposé.
Drawing from court records, FBI affidavits, and law enforcement insights, I trace how these cults thrive in plain sight on apps our children use daily.
The devil doesn’t wear horns; he wears a suit, a robe, a badge—sometimes all three. An FBI informant doubling as a Satanist publisher? That’s real, and it’s in the book.
But here’s the heart: Evil no longer hides because it doesn’t need to.
Lawlessness has gone digital.
Yet, as 2 Thessalonians 2:7 reminds us, the restraining power of God holds back the flood—if the faithful act.
My book isn’t despair; it’s defiance. It equips parents with signs of grooming (love-bombing to extortion), youth ministers with discussion guides, and churches with calls to advocate for platform accountability.
As one Amazon reviewer put it: “A MUST READ! Every parent or grandparent NEEDS this book… It provides sources for information and how to discover beginnings of problems.”
Martin Mawyer
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Martin Mawyer is the President of Christian Action Network, host of the “Shout Out Patriots” podcast, and author of When Evil Stops Hiding. Follow him on Substack for more action alerts, cultural commentary, and real-world campaigns defending faith, family, and freedom.
