Teddy Joseph Von Nukem Wiki, Biography
Teddy Joseph Von Nukem (born Ted Landrum, November 23, 1987 to January 30, 2023), was an American attempted-drug-smuggler and protester who was noted for his role in the Unite the Right rally. He took his own life in January 2023.
He changed his name to match the video-game character Duke Nukem, in 2012. He owned the company AnCap Incorporated (a portmanteau of anarcho-capitalism) and had aspirations of a career in politics. He was a supporter of libertarianism, and Donald Trump and believed that “white people are disadvantaged in the arena of identity politics.”
A photograph of Von Nukem holding a tiki torch at the Unite the Right rally became the image that was most commonly used to represent the 2017 right-wing protest.
A Missouri man who was among the most prominent Neo-Nazis at the infamous 2017 Charlottesville rally has shot himself dead on what was supposed to be the first day of his drug trafficking trial.
Von Nuken killed himself at his home in Missouri on January 30, 2023. His death occurred on the same day he was due to stand trial for drugs-related criminal charges. He had previously admitted attempting to smuggle drugs, but denied knowledge that the product was fentanyl.
Teddy Joseph Von Nukem, a 35-year-old father of five young children, was found dead by his wife outside their spacious $400,000 Rolla, Missouri home on January 30. He was due in court in Arizona that day, charged with smuggling 15kg of fentanyl pills in his car as he crossed from Mexico into the U.S. in March 2021.
Von Nukem admitted that he had been paid $215 to transport the drugs. Von Nukem became interested in Nazi Germany during high school, and as an adult in 2012 changed his name from Teddy Landrum in a nod to his German heritage and the video-game character Duke Nukem.
He travelled to Virginia for the 2017 Unite the Right march which shocked the nation, and was among the tiki torch-carrying white supremacists who paraded through the city chanting: ‘Jews will not replace us’.
Counter-protester Heather Heyer, 32, was deliberately mown down and killed during the rally, and the then-president, Donald Trump, sparked outrage by saying there were ‘good people on both sides’ at the August 11-12 rally.
Von Nukem was among a group of white supremacists who beat a black man, Deandre Harris, almost to death, The Daily Beast reported. He told his local newspaper, The Springfield News-Leader, at the time of the rally that he supported Trump and had adopted the white supremacist worldview that whites are now ‘disadvantaged.’
‘I don’t mind showing solidarity with them,’ he said. ‘You have to pick your side. You have to throw your spport behind the army that is fighting for you.’
He said his wife, who did not attend the Charlottesville rally, was ‘more hardcore’ and ‘further to the right’ than he was. ‘Politics is violence. Period. End of story. And women shouldn’t be involved in violence,’ he said. ‘They should leave that to the people who do violence best, which are the men.
‘If something were to happen to me, that would be rather bad. But if something were to happen to both us, that would be catastrophic for our children.’
When Von Nukem failed to appear in court for his January 30 hearing, U.S. District Judge Rosemary Marquez issued a warrant for his arrest. At almost exactly the same time, Von Nukem’s wife found his body outside their home in the snow, still warm, and called police.
‘Suicide notes were found at the scene, left for law enforcement and his children, however handwriting was somewhat inconsistent,’ the coroner’s report – obtained by The Daily Beast – states.
His obituary noted he was ‘a different type of fellow’.
‘Some people knew Ted and understood he was a different type of fellow and had different views of things, but he would give the shirt off his back if you asked or needed it,’ his family wrote. ‘He will be truly missed and loved. May he always be watching over his friends and family forever and always.’
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