Austin Lee Edwards killed a 15-year-old California girl’s mother and grandparents and shot himself with his service weapon after driving across the country from Virginia.
The Virginia sheriff’s deputy who killed the mother and grandparents of a California teen he catfished shot himself with his service weapon after a chase with law enforcement 200 miles from the murder scene. Investigators’s say 28-year-old Austin Lee Edwards “catfished” the 15-year-old daughter of Brooke Winek, 38, posing as a 17-year-old boy, as CrimeOnline …
The Virginia sheriff’s deputy who catfished a California teen and murdered her family before setting fire to the house died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Riverside Police Chief Larry Gonzalez said Wednesday that Austin Lee Edwards, 28, posed as a 17-year-old boy to get the 15-year-old girl’s personal information and then drove cross-country to her …
Three people found dead inside a burning California home on Friday were killed by a former Virginia state trooper and current county deputy who “catfished” a teen living in the home and kidnapped her after killing her family. The Riverside Police Department identified the suspect — who was killed hours later in a shootout with …
A man and two women were found dead Friday morning inside a California home after firefighters extinguished a blaze there, but investigators said there was “clear evidence” they were dead before the fire. A suspect in the murders was later found in Needles, more than 200 miles away, and died in a “lethal force encounter” …
