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A former Virginia state trooper accused of “catfishing” a 15-year-old California girl and then murdering several of her family members was detained years earlier for a psychiatric evaluation after threatening to kill his father and then himself.
The state trooper who catfished a young Riverside teenager and killed her family had a glaring red flag on his record that was apparently not detected by Virginia authorities.
The suspect in in a triple homicide in Southern California who died in a shootout with police last month was a former Virginia law enforcement officer and was linked by investigators to a possible previous residence in North Chesterfield. California police believe the man, Austin Lee Edwards, drove across the country to meet a teenage
A Virginia sheriff’s deputy posed as a 17-year-old boy online and asked a teenage California girl for nude photos before he drove across the country and killed her mother and grandparents and set fire to their home, authorities said Nov 30.
Experts say parents should be having conversations with children and teens early and often about internet safety. The tragedy in Riverside can be a cautionary tale.