{"id":4793,"date":"2017-05-17T16:05:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T14:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4793"},"modified":"2017-05-17T16:08:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T14:08:23","slug":"a-tragic-end-to-a-polyamorous-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/4793\/","title":{"rendered":"A tragic end to a polyamorous relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am indebted to commenter\u00a0Nikw211<\/a>\u00a0in this thread<\/a> at David Thompson’s for this story<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A member of YouTube\u2019s skeptic community has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a woman, who has since been identified as his female YouTube co-host. Better known as \u201cRDP\u201d or Skeptic Feminist on social media, 29-year-old Aleksandr Kolpakov was arrested by police and is currently being held in Mesa County, Colorado jail on suspicion of second-degree murder.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

The victim was identified this Monday afternoon as 31-year-old Heather Anable, a co-streamer in Kolpakov\u2019s videos who viewers knew as \u201cIvy.\u201d The coroner\u2019s office ruled her death a homicide. Anable was shot multiple times in the neck and chest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I saw something breaking on Twitter last night about this and couldn’t work out what was going on, so I lost interest. Or rather, I did until I found that Kolpakov and his victim were in a polyamorous relationship with another of their co-hosts of the Skeptic Feminist channel. Here<\/a> is a video of Anable spelling out the virtues of ‘committed polyamory’ while Kolpakov sits beside her.<\/p>\n

According to Twitter,\u00a0Kolpakov is\u00a0a US Army veteran and suffers\u00a0from PTSD as a result of his service in Iraq. As Nikw211 remarks:<\/p>\n

I find it quite hard to imagine how the particular stresses and strains involved in living in a polyamorous relationship would have been helpful for the stress levels of someone with an already imbalanced mental state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Whether\u00a0Kolpakov has PTSD or not will no doubt be confirmed or otherwise in his trial, but\u00a0it seems almost certain that he did shoot and kill his lover. For a trio that made themselves vaguely famous by telling everyone that their polyamorous setup was full of advantages and based firmly in love this is a rather ironic ending, albeit tragic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am indebted to commenter\u00a0Nikw211\u00a0in this thread at David Thompson’s for this story: A member of YouTube\u2019s skeptic community has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a woman, who has since been identified as his female YouTube co-host. Better … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[87,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4795,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions\/4795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}