WASHINGTON -- Ohio's most notorious white supremacist, Andrew Anglin, still has a website, the Daily Stormer, although he had to change web hosts after previous companies found his content too offensive. He still rants against "the Jewish problem," blacks, "homos" and others who are neither white nor can muster sympathy for neo-Nazis.

Anglin, who grew up in the Columbus suburb of Worthington, still needs money to operate, though the currency he solicits, like that of other extremist groups, happens to be untraceable Bitcoin. "The Daily Stormer is being sued by Jewish terrorists," Anglin claims on the website. "In order to survive, we need shekels."

Yet Anglin, who became best known after last summer's violent clashes in Charlottesville -- he called a victim, the late Heather Heyer, "a drain on society" -- is something of a phantom these days. Targeted in lawsuits by people who say they were unmercifully taunted and even threatened with death by Anglin's supporters and Internet trolls, Ohio's pale prince of extremism has gone underground.

"Help us find him," exhorted the Huffington Post in a detailed story recently.

Where is the 33-year-old Anglin?

The question has made the rounds as a journalism exercise, with equal touches of mystery and menace. But it's a legal matter too.

Anglin has been sued several times, accused of unleashing hatred and threats of violence among his followers. But he has not personally been served with legal papers.

No one can find him.

If there is no legal proof he has been duly notified and given a chance to respond -- or if a court believes he is no longer a United States resident, a theory his lawyers are trying -- the lawsuits might be dismissed. In a Montana case, attorneys representing a woman suing Anglin said they tried to find him repeatedly, hiring investigators and process servers with a sound record of catching their prey. All were stumped.

Visits to Ohio relatives, friends, known haunts all failed. So the attorneys say they served him another way: They placed legal ads for six consecutive weeks in the Daily Reporter, a Columbus legal and business publication, with notification of the lawsuit.

Whether that will suffice will be up to a judge.

"I don't want to be perceived as being an advocate, but he's going to have to detail what his travels have been, what his changes in location have been, because as you know, ultimately, again, I have an independent obligation to determine whether there's jurisdiction here," federal Magistrate Jeremiah Lynch told attorneys during a Dec. 14 conference, according to the Associated Press. "The ultimate question is his domicile," Lynch said at the Montana meeting.

The rap Anglin faces:

The cases against Anglin resulted from things he wrote and posted on the Daily Stormer, a website whose name comes from the Nazi propaganda tabloid Der Sturmer.

In one case, Anglin is accused of launching a "troll storm" by writing 30 articles lambasting a Whitefish, Montana, woman, Tanya Gersh.

Gersh already knew of a different white nationalist, Richard Spencer, whose mother, Sherry Spencer, happened to also live in Whitefish. Gersh told CNN she talked to Sherry Spencer and asked her to disavow the views of her son. Gersh, a Realtor, also said that she knew protests were going to take place at a rental building that Sherry Spencer owned, and that she advised Sherry Spencer to sell the building as a way to defuse local tensions, suggesting the proceeds be donated to a human rights group.

Sherry Spencer did not take that well, writing in a blog that Gersh was threatening her with protests and attention that could drive down the building's value if she didn't sell, CNN reported. Gersh denies any such pressure and has said she was simply trying to have a mother-to-mother talk.

Then Anglin stepped in with articles in December 2016 and January 2017.

Anglin accused Gersh of running a Jewish extortion and racketeering ring and told his Daily Stormer followers to unleash a vile campaign against her and her family, according to a legal filing in the case.

"Ms. Gersh and her family have received over 700 harassing messages, including death threats, at all times of the day and night with noticeably more messages being received immediately following the publication of each of Mr. Anglin's articles," the court filing says.

Among the messages was, "You will be driven to the brink of suicide. & We will be there to take pleasure in your pain & eventual end." Another email said, "You are a disgusting, vile Jew. You filthy & depraved Jews never learn; it is your peoples' behavior responsible for our resentment of you, which pales in comparison to your hatred for us."

A similar case in Ohio:

Anglin faces a similar lawsuit in Ohio, where a Muslim-American comedian, Dean Obeidallah, wants the extremist to face consequences for writing that Obeidallah was the "mastermind" behind a bombing at an Ariana Grande concert overseas that left 23 people dead and 250 people injured.

Anglin posted a series of pictures of supposed tweets from Obeidallah, who lives in New York and tours widely. In reality, they were fabricated images, and Obeidallah never tweeted anything of the sort, according to the lawsuit in a federal court in Columbus.

The fake article caused readers to take to The Daily Stormer's message board where Obeidallah's life was threatened. One commenter wrote that "look down this barrel and verify if my gun is clean like a good terrorist," the lawsuit says.

But attorneys in that case, too, have had the same problem as those in the Montana case. They can't find Anglin to serve him.

If he can't be found:

One of Anglin's attorneys is Marc Randazza, of Nevada. He says if Anglin were held legally liable for the things his readers said or did, it could chill free speech rights everywhere. It's no different from an anti-fracking activist urging others to write to a drilling company, Randazza said. The original writer shouldn't be blamed legally if someone else strays outside the lines.

"The heart of the matter is this is a First Amendment case," Randazza told cleveland.com. "As go the rights of Mr. Anglin, so go the rights of us all."

Anglin's critics say there's a big difference. Anglin spews hatred, they say, to a receptive audience. And Anglin knows how that audience will react.

"Anglin often refers to himself as a troll on the Internet," says an Anti-Defamation League primer. "In this light, he goads his readers and followers, whom he refers to as the 'Stormer troll army,' to contact perceived enemies (mostly Jews) on Twitter to inundate them with hateful tweets. On his website, Anglin has also posted extensive instructions on how to troll people."

Yet until or unless Anglin is found, the cases against him might center as heavily on procedural questions as on the First Amendment issue. A primary procedural question: Can a case continue if the defendant has not been personally served?

Lawyers for the Southern Poverty Law Center, which works on civil rights protection and litigation, say yes, absolutely. The center is involved as one of Gersh's legal representatives.

Randazza says no. He and other attorneys told the Montana court recently that Anglin resides in neither Ohio nor any other state, and a stateless person cannot be sued in federal court, according to the Huffington Post. The attorneys appeared to suggest, the Huffington Post said, that Anglin lives in Lagos, Nigeria. Anglin has said before that he is in Nigeria, the New York Times reported in August.

The Huffington Post, however, is skeptical of the claim and said Anglin spent 2015 and 2016 in Russia. He cast an absentee ballot in Ohio for the 2016 presidential race, but it was postmarked from Krasnodar in western Russia, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported in August.

A rare Columbus sighting:

Yet a Columbus process server said in a court filing in the Montana case that he is certain he spotted Anglin in a Meijer supermarket in Reynoldsburg, another Columbus suburb, on Dec. 10 this year.

The process server, Jeffrey Cremeans, had seen photos and video of Anglin. But the sighting was happenstance. Cremeans was in the store on a personal errand -- it was a Sunday -- and didn't have the legal papers on him.

Cremeans said in a legal filing he nevertheless asked the man if he was Anglin and was told no, after which the man "quickly fled the store."

So where is Anglin?

"We would love to find that out, too," said Heidi Beirich, an authority on extremism at the Southern Poverty Law Center. "Our lawyers have expended a tremendous amount of time trying to find him."

Randazza, the attorney representing the absent client, says he is deeply skeptical of the recent Columbus sighting.

Asked if he knew where Anglin is, Randazza told cleveland.com, "I can neither confirm nor deny any information about his location."