Twin sisters have revealed how they tracked down their serial cyberstalker who posted their nudes on the internet, eventually having him sent to federal prison.
Madison and Christine Conradis were harassed for a decade after finding their intimate photos on 4chan, followed by a series of harassing messages sent to them from anonymous social media accounts.
Despite being rejected by the police, the sisters continued their fight, which ended last December. Their cyberstalker – a man they both knew well – was imprisoned, the newspaper reports Washington Post.
Christopher Buonocore — who had attended college with the sisters and even attended one of their weddings — was the man behind the years-long harassment campaign, posting thousands of intimate images of six women online.
For the crimes, he was sent to federal prison for fifteen years. But this was only possible thanks to the twin sisters’ dogged intuition, internet research, and determination to help other women in their position.
Madison and Christine Conradis endured a decade of harassment after finding their intimate photos on 4chan – followed by a series of harassing messages sent to them from anonymous social media accounts
Justice was served thanks to the twin sisters’ dogged intuition, internet sleuthing, and determination to help other women in their position
Christopher Buonocore — who had attended college with the sisters and even attended one of their weddings — was the man behind the years-long harassment campaign, posting thousands of intimate images of six women online
Madison discovered ten years ago, when she was 24 years old, that her nude photos were being distributed on the lawless website 4chan. The photos were also sent to her father, her friends and her boss.
Despite the harassment, Madison, Florida police told Madison that what she witnessed was not a criminal act and that nothing could be done about it.
But as the torment continued and Madison received Facebook messages from anonymous accounts requesting new photos, her sister Christine, who had just passed the counter, decided to intervene where the police had failed to help.
In 2016, Madison also started dating her new boyfriend Jeffrey Geiger. During a trip to the Florida Keys, she posted a sunset on her Snapchat story – which was viewed by 39 people.
The next morning, she got a message from one of the anonymous harassment accounts saying, “You guys had a great time in the keys, I see.” Madison searched the 39 names who saw the photo and selected one: Christopher Buonocore.
A year later, when Madison’s relationship with Geiger broke down, she realized that new photos of her were being posted on 4chan. They were nude photos she had sent to her boyfriend.
Boudoir photos of Christine were also posted, which she had sent to her husband. Geiger had accessed it through Dropbox.
It was at this point that the twins confronted Geiger – who allegedly confessed to getting in touch with the anonymous harassing accounts and sending them the new nude photos of his girlfriend and her sister.
Geiger left a handwritten note for Christine, a copy of which she has included in the lawsuits: “I’m an idiot and don’t deserve your sister. I’m not asking you to forget or look beyond what I did.
The sisters received creepy text messages from anonymous accounts threatening to spread their images further
As the harassment continued and Madison received Facebook messages from anonymous accounts asking for new photos, her sister Christine, who had just passed the bar, decided to intervene where the police had failed to help.
In September 2018, the sisters filed a lawsuit against Geiger and “John Doe,” claiming they had violated privacy and deliberately caused emotional distress.
“I just hope you’ll forgive me one day. … I swear on everyone I love that I was only trying to help.”
In September 2018, the sisters filed a civil lawsuit against Geiger and “John Doe,” claiming an invasion of privacy and intentional emotional distress.
Crucially, their main goal was to open up Discovery – allowing them to subpoena 4chan and obtain the IP addresses to expose John Doe – the person Geiger had sent the photos to and then uploaded their nudes to the website.
Of their own accord, the sisters began to track down and notice idiosyncrasies in the punctuation and spelling of the 4chan posts to see if there were any common similarities to see if their stalker did this to other women as well.
Christine and Madison realized that one person with the same username appeared to be behind other malicious nude posts from four other women.
When the twins looked those women up on Facebook, they saw that they all had one connection in common: Chris Buonocore.
Buonocore, from Long Island, attended Florida Institute of Technology with Christine and was a member of the same fraternity as Christine’s future husband.
He had attended Christine’s wedding in March 2017, at the height of the harassment.
Madison told the Washington Post, “I never even interacted with him at their wedding, but he was definitely there.”
The sisters then went to find out who the four other victims were. One was Buonocore’s ex-girlfriend, another was his underage relative, the third was his childhood friend, and the fourth was his ex-fiancee.
The ex-girlfriend told the sisters that she had suffered from his sexual harassment since 2013, and she also tried to have the 4chan photos of herself removed.
Buonocore’s relative was 14 years old in 2016 when he shared pictures of her in her school uniform on 4chan. He asked fellow users for advice on how to trick her into sending him nude photos.
He said he wanted to have sex with her, according to the settlement. In one post, he wrote, “I have a strong desire to see[her]being raped,” and offered to pay someone to do so, according to the plea deal WaPo had seen.
The third victim, Buonocore’s childhood friend, said he somehow got a bare-chested photo of her when she was 15 and circulated it online, the documents show.
The fourth wife was Buonocore’s ex-fiancee. After they broke up, he posted intimate photos of her online – and she only found out when the twins contacted her.
Still being rejected by the police, Christine used her newfound lawyer knowledge and prepared a 59-page document explaining the whole case.
It contained all the evidence they had found for all six women, as well as ways to get around the severe legal restrictions that police consistently rejected them for.
Using the scroll, all the women demanded a criminal investigation from their respective investigators.
At his November 2021 trial in Tampa, U.S. District Judge Thomas Barber sentenced Buonocore to 15 years in prison
In Manatee County, Florida, the case was eventually turned over to federal investigators, and in July 2019 the FBI took over as the evidence showed this to be a case of interstate cyberstalking.
Months later, thanks to their previous civil case, Madison and Christine also received a final, crucial piece of information. They received the IP addresses and contact information from the 4chan poster.
In April 2020, internet providers confirmed that it was Christopher Buonocore who posted the intimate footage.
The civil case ended with the sisters settled with Geiger for an undisclosed sum, and the judge ordered Buonocore to remove and destroy Madison and Christine’s images.
On the criminal case, in December 2020, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida charged Buonocore with six counts of cyberstalking — as no federal criminalization of revenge porn existed.
He pleaded guilty to all charges.
At his November 2021 trial in Tampa, U.S. District Judge Thomas Barber sentenced Buonocore to 15 years in prison.
This was four years more than the prosecution had even asked for — and far more than the plea deal Buonocore was trying to reach.