Ex-Virginia trooper dies in shootout after killing family of teen he had catfished, police say – Before he drove away with the girl, police believe, he set a fire at the home where her grandparents and mother were found slain. The teen is in protective custody. [More]
I didn’t even know what that term all the “news” stories are freely throwing out meant, and in this account, you have to make it all the way down to the next to the last paragraph to find it’s pretending to be someone you’re not. I still don’t understand the connection with the term, and this hardly helps.
If you think about it though, adopting a fake persona to lure others into trusting you is what being a provocateur/CI is all about, so maybe that’s what we should start calling them. I’m not late with that, am I?
In this rabid mutt’s case, it would be interesting to find out how much of that he learned on the job, and now that he’s dead, opening his files to find out what his employers knew, when they knew it, and why he’s an “ex” could be instructive.
[Via Steve T]
