Austin Lee Edwards posed as a 17-year-old online to groom and sexually extort a teenage girl before he killed her mother and grandparents and set fire to their home.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A Virginia sheriff’s deputy posed as a 17-year-old online to groom and sexually extort a teenage girl in California before he killed her mother and grandparents and set fire to their home, authorities said Wednesday.
Edwards, a resident of North Chesterfield, Virginia, met the girl online and obtained her personal information by deceiving her with a false identity, known as “catfishing,” police said.Edwards appears to have posed as a teenager to engage in an online romantic relationship with the girl, according to Riverside police. Detectives are trying to determine how they met online and how long they corresponded, police said.
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