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We can unequivocally assert that Clinton is innocent
of the accusations made against her both in the Body
Count and Pizzagate conspiracies, and in the others we
discuss subsequently. It would require a great suspension
of disbelief to accord any validity to the Clinton
Body Count and Pizzagate narratives. As mentioned
previously, even Thompson acknowledged that she had
no tangible evidence linking the Clintons to the deaths
of the people listed on her site. Moreover, as the list
grew over time—and included also the disappearances
of allegedly cannibalized and sacrificed children—
accusers still could not provide any. Numerous and often
sadistic and vicious attacks made against Clinton during
and beyond Pizzagate morphed along with QAnon
to become part of a seemingly endless and insatiable
conspiracy machine that perpetuated a witch hunt of
unimaginable proportions against Clinton and those
aligned with her. The Clinton Body Count periodically
gains further attention for example, picking up steam
again in 2019 following Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide while
jailed awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges (Bleakley,
2021 Gatehouse, 202). Accepting that both theories
offer fantastical false narratives, we can reaffirm the
innocence of the accused.
Criterion 2: Unlikely Perpetrators
Wood et al. (2017) describe an unlikely perpetrator as
a person for whom the deviant or criminal activities
accused would be atypical. The Clinton Body Count
conspiracy theory alleges that the Clintons have
others commit murders on their behalf (D’Antonio,
2020 Mikkelson, 2001). Pizzagate and QAnon
narratives insist that Clinton and other members of
the Democratic Party are cannibals (Brisini, 2019
LaFrance), pedophiles (Bleaky, 2021 LaFrance, 2020
Merlon, 2019), and are part of an elite group that
harvests adrenochrome (discussed later) from the
blood of children to maintain their youth (Schwarcz,
2022). Even if we were to accept that some individuals
might have numerous people put to death for their
own political gain and that the same individuals also
would cannibalize and murder children (as well as
sexually molest and traffic them), it is impossible to
identify Hillary Clinton as a likely perpetrator of these
and other alleged crimes.
Clinton has spent her career advocating for and
supporting children’s rights (Bordo, 2017 D’Antonio,
Lesley, 2016 National Women’s Hall of Fame). She is
a mother to her daughter, Chelsea, and a grandmother
to Chelsea’s two children. It is highly improbable that
an individual who has devoted so much of her life to
the benefit of children would be responsible for the
debasement and death of them. Moreover, with a
demanding political career and a family she loves, it is
unlikely that Clinton could covertly engage in multiple
felonies that would require the silence of innumerable
others. From a logistical approach alone, Clinton
would be unlikely to even have the time to run an
underground child sex trafficking ring, organize hits on
prominent citizens, and establish a trade network for
the purchase of adrenochrome, amongst other alleged
activities. Such activities would undermine the strides
she made for children’s healthcare while in the White
House (Patrick, 2016) and would ensure the complete
ruination of her reputation. Furthermore, typically,
the perpetrators of child murders are known to their
victims and are usually male (Wilson et al., 2022).
Finally, given the rarity of ritual abuse and cannibalism,
it is unlikely that most people in the United States are
perpetrators of such behaviors, including Clinton.
Criterion 3. Bizarre Accusations: Frazzledrip,
Adrenochrome, and Kuru
Arguably, all conspiracy theories targeting Clinton are
so strange and improbable that they exist in a realm of
destructive, chaotic fantasy. One could further argue,
however, that some narratives take the concept of strange
and improbable to new levels. Bizarre accusations refer
to a situation where more than one accusation portrays
behaviors that are “not only criminal, sexually deviant,
or violent, but also bizarre” (Wood et al., 2017, p. 901).
In this segment, we address three particularly peculiar
accusations, while acknowledging that those we have
discussed already and those we are yet to cover also fall
into this category.
Frazzledrip is an extremely odd conspiracy theory
linked to both Pizzagate and QAnon. The theory
purports the existence of a snuff video allegedly showing
Clinton and her staff member, Huma Abedin, torturing
a young girl. The accusations based on the alleged
video are that Clinton and Abedin removed the skin
from the victim’s face and wore it like a mask, and then
ritualistically sexually assaulted the victim. Allegedly,
they then harvested her blood for adrenochrome prior

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to murdering her (Hananoki, 2021). As extreme and
odd as Pizzagate and the Clinton Body Count theories
are, Frazzledrip takes the Satanic Panic trope of
ritualistic child abuse and the blood libel to a new and
truly bizarre level.
Despite the falsity of the accusations, the unlikely
perpetrators, and the extraordinarily fantastical
nature of these claims, hundreds of discussion videos
(each with thousands of views) emerged on YouTube.
Conspiracists claim that the video was found on the
computer hard drive of Abedin’s ex-husband. The
theory further adds to the Clinton Body Count by
alleging the death of an unnamed minor and by
claiming that several police officers who viewed the
video were later killed at Clinton’s behest (Goldberg,
2021). In another variation of the narrative, many
QAnon supporters believe that just watching the video
may be “fatal to the viewer” and that the police officers
in question committed suicide in response to what they
saw (Sommer, 2023).
One of the weirdest parts of the already bizarre
Frazzledrip conspiracy is the claim that Clinton and
Abedin harvested their young victim’s blood for
adrenochrome prior to murdering her (Hananoki,
2021). Adrenochrome is the oxidized compound of
adrenaline and has no practical use unless it is bound
to monosemicarbazone to produce carbazochrome,
a medication that aids blood clotting (Schwarcz,
2022 Volle, 2024). QAnon adherents believe that
adrenochrome’s properties prevent its users from
aging and that high-ranking older Democrats are
harvesting it to prolong their lives (Volle, 2024). The
alleged consumption of adrenochrome extends beyond
the original Frazzledrip narrative to incorporate new
claims. Despite QAnon’s insistence that adrenochrome
is harvested from the blood of children, it can be and
is produced synthetically in a lab, and researchers can
purchase it from reputable suppliers (Schwarcz, 2022).
Finally, another particularly bizarre conspiracy that
developed along with Pizzagate was the proposal that
Clinton had developed an exceedingly rare neurological
disorder called kuru (Brisini, 2019). Kuru is a fatal
prion25
1
disease transmitted through the consumption
of infected human remains, especially neurological
25 A prion is a protein in the brain that can initiate abnormalities in
other proteins. This process may lead to several types of rare but often deadly
prion diseases (John Hopkins Medicine, 2024).
tissue (Brisini, 2019 Liberski &Brown, 2009). The
disease emerged in the Fore people of Papua New
Guinea and primarily affected women and children
(Liberski &Brown, 2009). The Fore used to engage
in ritualistic endocannibalism until the Australian26
1 government outlawed the practice in the mid-1950s
(Imran &Mahmood, 2011).
According to the kuru conspiracists, this disease
explained Clinton’s allegedly strange behavior and
emotional outbursts that had supposedly destroyed
her 2016 presidential campaign. Furthermore, the
kuru narratives posited that Clinton engaged in
deviant worship practices with Marina Abramovic, a
performance artist who often uses themes of blood and
pain in her work and is thus characterized as Satanic
in conservative media and Christian circles (Brisini,
2019). Casting Clinton as a witch with a propensity for
the consumption of neurological tissue was a bizarre
accusation in many ways, not least because researchers
have not found evidence of the spread of the kuru prion
since 1960 (Alpers cited in Brisini, 2019). Hence, even
if one were to accept the extremely bizarre accusation
that Clinton commits acts of cannibalism, it would be
biologically impossible for her to develop kuru (Brisini,
2019).
Criteria 4 and 6: Blatantly False Accusations and
Unreliable Methods
We have paired these criteria based on their
intersection. The criterion, blatantly false accusation,
requires that “at least one accusation” be evidently
untrue. For example, the accusation may include
“impossible acts” or “harm that should leave physical
injury” despite findings that no such harms transpired,
or “being transported for long distances” despite a lack
of evidence (Wood et al., 2017, p. 901). Wood et. al.
explain unreliable methods as the improper gathering
of evidence and breaches of “scientific or professional
standards... [and] procedures” (Wood et al., 2017).
As noted, the prion disease kuru no longer exists,
and adrenochrome must be modified for use. From a
scientific standpoint, adrenochrome cannot be used
as an anti-aging agent derived from blood. Evidently,
claiming that Clinton had contracted kuru and that she
26 Following World War One, the League of Nations gave Australia
control over territory that Germany had previously colonized in Papua New
Guinea (Britannica, 2025).