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YouTuber Leo Rex is a self-described “masculinity biohacker” who famously declared that he’s the “foremost expert in penis enlargement” on his channel Leo And Longevity once.

Daring and dumb, much.

Honestly, that is not even the most alarming part of this story.

The YouTuber mysteriously died last week Monday inside his apartment in Pattaya, a coastal city in Thailand.

The Daily Beast reports that the grisly scene in which he was found suggests that the American influencer may have been brutally killed following a struggle.

Rex, whose legal name is Laith Abdallah Algaz and who was reportedly aged around 34-35, was found by a friend who had a spare key and who went to check on Rex after he hadn’t heard from him.

Rex was found lying face down in the bathroom, surrounded by cannabis, antidepressants, bipolar disorder medication, sleeping pills, and “muscle-boosting antibiotics”:

He was naked besides a black shirt, had a black eye and still had blood “flowing from his mouth and nose” when cops arrived, reported Bangkok Business News.

Pattaya’s police chief, Kunlachart Kunlachai, said Rex’s apartment appeared to have been ransacked, with items scattered across the bedroom and bathroom, according to local outlet ASEAN NOW.

Sketchy.

The local cops haven’t declared Rex’s cause of death and won’t be doing so until an autopsy is complete. They say he was dead for about five hours by the time they arrived.

The Pattaya police are investigating with security footage checks and interviews with all the victim’s friends, including a woman who had stayed with him before he died.

The Colorado native apparently moved to Thailand after his ex-wife, Lucie Colomb, divorced him last year.

Colomb had a really tough time with Rex and requested to have a domestic violence restraining order set against him last March.

She said that her ex-husband abused alcohol and drugs and was “extremely verbally and emotionally abusive” to her and their one-year-old daughter:

Colomb said Rex’s “abusive behavior” escalated when she became pregnant in Nov. 2021, especially once they learned the baby would be a girl instead of a boy. From then on, he allegedly “alienated” Colomb from her friends and refused to let her leave their apartment unless she asked permission, court docs say.

In a portion of deranged texts submitted with Colomb’s court filing, Rex allegedly messaged her: “You should have lived to serve me instead of feeling sorry for yourself 24/7,” and, “I am happy with the way I treated you and believe you deserve much worse treatment…You deserve much worse. MUCH.”

His YouTube channel Leo and Longevity was teeming with bogus science and quaky, misogynistic advice that preyed on sexually insecure men:

While the channel discussed topics like bodybuilding, experimental health supplements, steroids, and his experience taking different drugs, like psychedelics, Rex’s most popular videos were about his journey to growing a “supraphysiological” penis.

With that he managed to amass some 123 000 subscribers by the time he died:

One can argue that nobody deserves a gruelling death, but dare I say that the internet will be a slightly less maddening place now.

Until someone else rushes to fill Rex’s place, that is.

[source:dailybeast]