TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Category: Social Media Crime

  • NC man arrested for sending nude photos

    Man accused of sending obscene photos to underage girl:

    24-year-old Adam Jaron Wilkinson of Shelby, North Carolina has been arrested for sending nude pictures of himself to a 13-year-old Michigan girl. He communicated with the girl through the social site MyYearbook. Which is extra creepy because MyYearbook is geared toward high school-aged users. There’s really no reason a 24-year-old should be on that site.

    The girl’s father found the pictures and he contacted the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children who in turn contacted North Carolina’s SBI.

  • SC man arrested after MySpace hook up

    Man Charged with Misconduct after Myspace Meeting:

    25-year-old Kendrick Smith of Greenwood, South Carolina has been arrested for hooking up with a 13-year-old girl he met on MySpace.

    The girl was reported as a runaway and police found her at a local supermarket. She told police she met Smith over MySpace and that Smith took her to his house. It was there she performed oral sex on him. Being the classy guy that he is he then dropped her off at the supermarket.

    They might start calling him the 24-hour supermarket in prison because he’ll be open all the time.

  • Homeland Security predator ordered to undergo psych eval

    Accused Riverside MySpace predator to face psychological exam:

    I originally posted about Celestino Torres Paguyo here. He’s the 32-year-old guy who met a 16-year-old girl over MySpace, picked her up at school, and pressured her to ‘perform a sex act on him’. He’s also the guy who was busted by Homeland Security.

    Now he’s been ordered by a judge to undergo a psych exam to see if he’s likely to re-offend.

    Considering he told the girl he was 20 and in college, I’m guessing he’s already re-offended and no one knows about it.

    And check out these lame ass charges…

    Paguyo was charged with sending “harmful matter” through the Internet, a felony, and annoying or molesting a child under 18 years old, a misdemeanor.

    Um…shouldn’t they both be felonies?

    His next hearing is scheduled for December 1st.

  • Indictments handed down in Brooke Bennett’s disappearance

    Jacques indicted: Brooke Bennett assaulted, strangled, smothered

    Michael Jacques was indicted yesterday in the disappearance of his niece 12-year-old Brooke Bennett. Jacques is facing federal charges so that makes him oh so eligible for the death penalty.

    A grand jury says convicted rapist Michael Jacques, 42, of Randolph drugged, sexually assaulted, strangled and smothered Brooke and placed a plastic bag over her head. The six-count indictment calls the killing premeditated, intentional and “especially heinous, cruel, or depraved.”

    This article states that Jacques has also been charged with her murder.

    To read the PDF of the indictment you can go here.

    Speaking of indictments, Jacque’s cohort, Ray Gagnon who is also Brooke Bennett’s ex-stepfather, has also been indicted. He was indicted in the state of Texas, where he lives on child porn charges. The U.S. District Attorney has dropped the obstruction charges against Gagnon so he could be easily extradited to Texas.

    Have fun in Texas prison, Ray.

  • Canadian Nexopia predator sentenced, sort of

    Child porn luring man gets jail time:

    I originally posted about Ian Stuart Johnson here. Back in January Johnson, of Calgary, pleaded guilty to child porn charges and trying to lure underage girls over the Canadian social site Nexopia.

    He was sentenced to time behind bars yesterday but only for 15 months. No offense to my Canadian readers but it seems that Canadian sentences are almost as bad as the British ones.

    15 months behind bars for an obvious predator is a joke. In 15 months he’ll be back on the streets again looking for his next victim.

  • Lori Drew told her hairdresser

    She Even Told Her Hairdresser:

    Lori Drew was so pleased with her little scheme against 13-year-old Megan Meier that she bragged about it to not only her hairdresser but to other acquaintances as well. Until Megan killed herself over it then Drew tried to cover up any connection to the scheme.

    Court papers which The Smoking Gun has posted show how callous Drew was during the whole fake ‘Josh Evans’ MySpace which led to Megan’s suicide.

  • YouTube under the gun

    Finnish gunman’s video puts YouTube policies back in spotlight:

    Last year after the shootings at Jokela High School in Finland I called on YouTube to revise its policy about videos such as the ones that Pekka-Eric Auvinen posted prior to the shootings. Of course, the Google-owned company didn’t heed my words. Why would they? I’m just one blogger and they’re a multi-billion dollar corporation. However, that warning has come back to bite them in the ass with Matti Saari and the Kauhajoki School shooting.

    As I mentioned before Saari posted similar videos to the ones Auvinen made prior to his shooting spree. Not to mention all the mutant videos that pay tribute to the Columbine killers. I wonder if it will finally take the deaths of 10 people in Finland to rethink their policies.

    Stop relying on the users to flag inappropriate videos. Considering the stereotypical YouTube user this is kind of the videos they live for.

    Like I’ve said before if Google can censor the entire country of China I would imagine they could do a better job in screening their videos.

  • Brian Draper’s MySpace revisited

    Maintenance of Convicted Killer Brian Draper’s Myspace Page in Question:

    Not too long ago I posted about the MySpace of convicted killer, lifer, and mutant Brian Draper. Draper is one of the teen killers convicted in the 2006 slashing death of someone whom they called their friend, Cassie Jo Stoddart.

    I theorized that his MySpace was obviously written by either a member of his family or an advocate who believes that teens should never be charged as adults. I came to that hypothesis after I noticed the proper grammar which I doubt Draper has and the fact that prison inmates usually don’t have access to the internet. It seems that one of my readers tipped off the local media to Draper’s MySpace.

    We’ve previously reported on a website that supports Torey Adamcik’s innocence called Voices for Torey. Thanks to a viewer, we tracked down a commentary page that negatively outlines the possibility of Brian Draper updating his myspace page from prison.

    Earlier this month, “A Murderer’s Disguise” was posted on the website called The Trenchcoat Chronicles. On it, Trench Reynolds debunks the idea that Draper can access the internet saying, among other things, that the two teenagers have become poster boys for people who believe teens should not be charged as adults. Reynolds simply states that someone else must be maintaining the personal page.

    KPVI then followed up on my assumptions and called the Idaho Department of Corrections. They have confirmed that inmates do not have access to the internet. So is it being maintained by family or an advocate? Is Draper actually in the programs that he claims and is it just for show?

    None of this could have been possible if it wasn’t for the watchful eye of Mr. A who brought my attention to Draper’s MySpace in the first place.

  • Close to divorced man busted for child porn, solicitation

    Man Charged With Soliciting Teen For Sex:

    40-year-old Charles R. Mowder of Midlothian, Illinois was arrested for trying to solicit sex from a 16-year-old girl. Illinois’ age of consent is 17.

    A woman, who I assume was the girl’s guardian, found the e-mails that Mowder was sending to the girl and notified police. Police, in turn, searched Mowder’s computer which turned up child porn.

    According to one of Mowder’s MySpaces…

    About me:

    i am a gentleman in chicago very close to divorce, into bdsm, travel, and seeking someone to join me for fun, and maybe more.

    Who I’d like to meet:

    someone interesting, bi, and that is looking for fun, and maybe more. one that is a sub, and seeking a bdsm lifestyle

    I bet that divorce is closer than it was before.

    You know it’s that he’s bi or into BDSM that would have tipped me off to him being a creeper. It’s his lack of capital letters that would have been a tip-off to me. If he misspelled all his words he probably could have passed as a teenager.

    Thanks to Mr. A for the tip.

  • Poor Lori Drew

    Woman in MySpace Suicide Case Moving Away From Neighborhood:

    Poor Lori Drew. When she’s not busy kicking puppies, tearing the wings off of butterflies and making 13-year-old girls commit suicide she has to find a new home. The Drews have decided to leave their Dardenne Prairie, Mo. home for parts unknown. Isn’t that where all the masked wrestlers are from? Then she might fit in real nice there. She could use a nice mask.

    Seriously though they are moving within the week and they claim they don’t know where they are going. At least they have the luxury to move. Megan Meier doesn’t.