Ex-Virginia cop posed as teen for ‘sextortion’ in catfishing of girl whose family he killed, police say
"Sextortion" prompted a former Virginia police officer to capture a teenage girl and kill her mother and grandparents in Southern California last week, police said Wednesday. Police believe that 28-year-old Austin Lee Edwards, a former Virginia State Police officer working for the Washington County Sheriff's Office, posed as a 17-year-old boy online to hook up with the girl, who I lived in Riverside, California, Riverside. Police Chief Larry Gonzalez said at a news conference. Edwards had traveled from Virginia to Riverside and was killed in a shootout with police.“This is yet another horrifying reminder of the predators that exist online…
