{"id":537609,"date":"2023-01-09T07:12:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T04:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/catfishing-cop-had-history-of-messaging-underage-girls\/"},"modified":"2023-01-09T07:12:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T04:12:53","slug":"catfishing-cop-had-history-of-messaging-underage-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/catfishing-cop-had-history-of-messaging-underage-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Catfishing\u2019 cop had history of messaging underage girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40208999624\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40208999624\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/catfishing-cop-had-history-of-messaging-underage-girls\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Catfishing_cop_had_history_of_messaging_underage_girls%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;\u2018Catfishing\u2019 cop had history of messaging underage girls&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Catfishing_cop_had_history_of_messaging_underage_girls%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;\u2018Catfishing\u2019 cop had history of messaging underage girls&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>The murderous \u201ccatfish\u201d Virginia cop that tricked a 15-year-old girl online before abducting her and killing her family had been messaging underage girls online for nearly a decade before the rampage, a report claims.<\/p>\n<p>Messages between Austin Lee Edwards, 28, and his now-21-year-old victim reviewed by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2023-01-08\/austin-lee-edwards-groomed-nudes-girl-teen\">the Los Angeles Times<\/a> show that his perversion toward underage girls began at least seven years before he was caught posing as a 17-year-old boy on the internet. <\/p>\n<p>Edwards killed himself in November after kidn<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ing his 15-year-old victim, killing her mother and grandparents, and setting their home on fire.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet did not identify the victim. She was 13 when the late cop began messaging her and soliciting nude photographs. Authorities uncovered at least 4,000 messages between the pair.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards was aware that the girl was a minor. Unlike at the time of his death, he did not attempt to catfish the girl and was forthcoming about his age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cdid i tell you i went trick or treating? :^ )\u201d Edwards reportedly wrote on Nov. 6, 2014. \u201ci totally did. am 20.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe too,\u201d the girl wrote back. \u201cAm 13.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After initially meeting on the chat app Omegle in 2014, the two conversed for at least two years, messages show. The 20-year-old Edwards would also masturbate on Skype calls and ask her to undress, she said, which she chose not to do. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/NYPICHPDPICT000003341382.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Dozens of candles are laid on the sidewalk, along with bouquets of flowers and stuffed animals outside of a charred home in Riverside.\" class=\"wp-image-25288381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/NYPICHPDPICT000003341382.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/NYPICHPDPICT000003341382.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/NYPICHPDPICT000003341382.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/NYPICHPDPICT000003341382.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Dozens of candles are laid on the sidewalk, along with bouquets of flowers and stuffed animals outside of a charred home in Riverside.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Edwards would refer to the teenager as his \u201cgirlfriend,\u201d send naked photographs of herself, however, and would threaten violence if she refused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s when I realized he was not mentally stable,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>During several calls, Edwards would show off his knife and hatchet collection, she said. <\/p>\n<p>One of the hatchets would end up being the one he used on himself in a 2016 suicide attempt. His father told authorities his son had been drinking and dealing with \u201cgirlfriend\u201d problems. <\/p>\n<p>The underage girl believes she was the \u201cgirlfriend\u201d the future murderer\u2019s father had been referring to.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>According to the girl, Edwards also shared his suicidal thoughts with the young woman, often telling her she was the only person he had and would threaten to kill himself if she cut communications with him. At one point, he told her she was his only reason for living.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards even encouraged her to engage in violence against her own family, messages show.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, he asked her to Skype, but the girl said she couldn\u2019t because her mother was home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201ckill her,\u201d he wrote, before threatening. \u201cimma give myself a black eye okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After two years of messaging, and several attempts at breaking up, the then-15-year-old girl decided to block Edwards.<\/p>\n<p>He continued to message her on different <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> accounts, even though she never shared her real name with him. <\/p>\n<p>Edwards joined the Virginia State Police in 2021, despite his history of mental health institutionalization that should have prevented him from joining the force. A year after graduating, Edwards began working at the Washington County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2022, Edwards abducted a 15-year-old California girl he was conversing with online under the guise of a 17-year-old boy. He killed her grandparents and mother before setting her house on fire and taking off with the girl. <\/p>\n<p>After a shootout with the police, Edwards killed himself with his service weapon. The girl was physically uninjured. <\/p>\n<p>His former victim said she wasn\u2019t \u201csurprised at all\u201d that Edwards had unleashed such violence on the girl and her family because she \u201cknew how scary he was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just crazy that he was able to become a cop with me knowing his mental health issues,\u201d the woman said. \u201cI don\u2019t understand how he got past everything because it was so prominent to me that he had so many issues just from talking to him in that time period.\u201d\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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