The stuntman son of the man who Nissa Diederich took over from at 20th Television last year is suing the EVP and the Walt Disney Company for retaliation and putting him on a career killing blacklist.
01.12.2022 - 05:47 / perezhilton.com
By now we’d be surprised if you hadn’t heard this story… but one detail seems to have fallen through the cracks.
To catch anyone up who hasn’t heard the shocking tale already, here’s what authorities put together in the aftermath. A former state trooper named Austin Lee Edwards was catfishing an underage girl, getting closer and closer to the 15-year-old on the internet by posing as a teen himself. Eventually the 28-year-old got the young woman’s address — whether she gave it to him or he found it some other way has yet to be revealed. But he used that info to drive across the country from his home in Virginia to Riverside, California so he could meet her in person.
It’s unclear if Edwards’ intentions were always violent, but that’s how it ended up. He tied up and gagged her mother, Brooke Winek, and her grandparents, Mark and Sheri Winek, before killing them and setting their house on fire. Then he took off with the teen. Thankfully a few hours later someone noticed a young girl apparently in distress with an older man and called the police. Edwards reportedly started a shootout with cops when approached and was killed. The poor girl was reportedly unharmed physically — though her life has been forever destroyed by the online dalliance.
OK, so that’s the story we already knew. What we’re now hearing is that this former state trooper was still in law enforcement after all.
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The impression many outlets gave early on was that he had formerly been employed as a police officer. But according to KTLA, Edwards had actually just been hired by the Washington County Sheriff’s Office! While his time as a state trooper was over, he had just been
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