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Authorities are investigating whether a Virginia sheriff's deputy posed as a 17-year-old boy online to groom and sexually extort a teenage girl in California before driving across the country and killing her mother and grandparents and setting fire to their home.
The ex-trooper allegedly groomed and catfished the teen online before committing the murder and kidnapping the girl.
Detectives believe the former Virginia police officer met a teenage relative of the victims through "catfishing," a form of online deception.
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 Wednesday.
The ex-trooper allegedly groomed and catfished the teen online before committing the murder and kidnapping the girl.