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One never knows of course about suicide. In my observation, it often isn’t a straight line from A to B, and five months passed from the time the McKnight video was posted (drawing hundreds of thousands of views) and McKnight taking her own life.

But it’s a given that being confronted on the porch of her Edmonton house last April by Doep and his camera, and then being shamed online, didn’t help.

The video — still available online, and though Creep Catcher Canada says it has taken its copies down, it’s there at all only because of the group — is excruciating.

First comes the requisite Creep Catcher opening shot, of Doep’s shoes and legs as he walks toward the house, the camera presumably hidden or at least discreetly held. He asks if “Katelynn” is home and says, “Can you ask him to come out please.” (Note the refusal to use the feminine pronoun. Big cruelties, small ones, they do it all.) Doep then babbles on about her wanting to meet a “14-year-old little girl,” and says he has the online chats to prove it.

McKnight doesn’t look shocked as much as bewildered. Practically her first words are that her phone was stolen four days before, and as Doep prattles on, his voice rising, she says, “May I ask what you’re talking about?”

He accuses her of saying she wanted to have “shower sex” with him when she believed he was the “14-year-old little girl.” She says again her phone was stolen. She protests that she was sexually exploited as a child and says, “I can’t believe you would accuse me of this.”