Virginia Cop Who Catfished Teen and Murdered Her Family Had History of Grooming, Psychiatric Issues
On Nov. 24, the morning after Thanksgiving, Austin Lee Edwards, a now-deceased 28-year-old former Virginia state trooper, drove 2,500 miles to “meet” a 15-year-old girl he’d been talking to online, posing as a teenager himself. When he arrived in her hometown of Riverside, California, Edwards killed her mother and…