Prometheus 6

I remember this guy. I guess it's best we got into such a dramatic discussion about Uncle Clarence instead of a discussion of what turned out to be a wimp.

Jilted lover behind threats to black men
For 20 years, he posed as an angry white woman threatening castration
The Associated Press
updated 10:21 a.m. ET May 17, 2008

CLEVELAND - A man who wrote hundreds of hateful letters to black and mixed-race men seen with white women apparently was motivated by a girlfriend who left him for a black man, the FBI said Friday.

David Tuason, who is of Filipino descent, admitted his motive when he was captured two months ago, said Frank Figliuzzi, the head of the FBI in Cleveland.

"One of the first phrases out of his mouth was, 'You wouldn't understand 'til it happened to you,' and when they inquired what that meant, he said, 'My girlfriend left me for a black man,'" Figliuzzi said.

The FBI was surprised that a jilted man was behind the hundreds of letters that went to, among others, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter.

Letters sent over two decades
In many of the letters sent over 20 years, he posed as an angry white woman threatening violent acts such as castration or explosions in buildings.

FBI agents arrested Tuason on March 14 after tracking e-mails sent from a public library. The agency's behavioral experts had developed several theories about the letter writer, but a jilted lover wasn't in the mix, Figliuzzi said.

"It's a lesson in considering the obvious," he said. "You can overcomplicate profiles and assessments and when you arrest the guy, he says, 'My girlfriend left me for a black man.'"