Mychelle Blandin’s parents and sister were victims of a triple homicide in Riverside that authorities say began with a “catfishing” case involving Blandin’s niece. Relatives of the Riverside family killed by “catfish” cop Austin Lee Edwards nearly a year ago filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Virginia sheriff’s office that hired him. Edwards, a former Virginia state trooper then employed …
Mychelle Blandin was getting ready to buy Christmas lights when her mother called in a panic. Blandin was still shopping when one of her parents’ neighbors saw a man walking down Price Court in a tan trench coat and black fedora. Around the same time the red Kia peeled out of Price Court, Blandin looked down at her phone and …
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At a news conference Wednesday, Michelle Blandin, center, grasps her husband’s arm while talking about her sister, Brooke Winek, and her parents, Mark and Sharie Winek, all three of whom were killed Friday in Riverside. The 28-year-old Virginia cop who killed three family members of a Riverside teenager had posed online as a teen to “groom” the 15-year-old girl, the …
