Austin Lee Edwards: 'CATFISH' murderer covered windows of $80k house purchased days before killing family
SALTVILLE, VIRGINIA: Austin Lee Edwards, a Virginia State Trooper, murdered a 15-year-old girl's mother and grandparents on Friday, November 25, after catfishing her by pretending to be a 17-year-old boy online. With more details emerging, it seemed Edwards, 28, had more sinister plans for the girl.
According to TMZ, Edwards purchased a new home on November 14, less than two weeks before he left for southern California to carry out his horrible murders. One of Edwards' first actions after moving into the home was to tint the windows, according to the 'catfish' murderer's new neighbors, who spoke to the portal. He used car tint to completely black out the windows of an $80,000 house in rural Virginia that he recently bought. The house is a two-bedroom, one-bathroom residence in Saltville, a town with a population of fewer than 2,000. The previous owner, according to records, was an aging woman who passed away in 2019. A neighbor claims that Edwards, a resident of North Chesterfield, Virginia, informed them of his desire to leave Richmond and relocate to a more rural area.
