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He told her he was 17, just a few months shy of 18. In reality, the “boy” she had been talking to was a 28-year-old sheriff’s deputy from Virginia named Austin Lee Edwards. “The Washington County’s Sheriff’s office gave Austin Lee Edwards a gun, a badge and cloaked him with the authority of the law,” Perry said in a statement. …

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 …

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The burned Riverside home where the bodies of three people were found Friday. He said it wasn’t immediately clear whether she was threatened or coerced by Edwards, but investigators are reviewing the “digital crime scene” and conducting interviews. Corinne Geller, the state police spokesperson, said that during Edwards’ 15-month tenure at the agency, he “never exhibited any behaviors to trigger …

A memorial outside the burned Riverside home where three people were found dead Friday. Edwards resigned from the Virginia State Police on Oct. 28 and started with the sheriff’s office about three weeks later. He completed training with the Virginia State Police Academy in January, officials said, and was hired as a patrol deputy with the sheriff’s office in rural, …

A woman looks at a memorial for three people whose bodies were found inside the burning Riverside home on Friday. “Detectives determined Edwards had met the female teenager through the common form of online deception known as ‘catfishing,’ where someone pretends to be a different person than they actually are,” authorities said in the release. Edwards completed training with the …