What started as a casual house party ended with three people stabbed in what Monterey County Sheriff’s investigators now believe was the violent culmination of an online obsession that crossed international borders.

The bizarre events unfolded the evening of Nov. 24, just before 10 p.m., when county sheriff deputies were sent to a home in the 300 block of Bollenbacher Drive in the Bolsa Knolls area northeast of Salinas. They arrived to discover three people suffering from stab wounds.

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Kiley Russell writes primarily for Local News Matters on issues related to equity and the environment. A Bay Area native, he has lived most of his life in Oakland. He studied journalism at San Francisco State University, worked for the Associated Press and the former Contra Costa Times, among other outlets. He has covered everything from state legislatures, local governments, federal and state courts, crime, growth and development, political campaigns of various stripes, wildfires and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.