Mize had Greenwell's cell phone, and when he checked it, he discovered a match — a man named Evan Batton, who turned out to be a youth pastor at a Baptist church near the town of Dardanelle, off Interstate 40 about 80 miles northwest of Little Rock. Just as he had with Greenwell, Mize constructed a photo series for each boy he suspected was one of Batton's victims.
He sanitized one photo for each series and sent the package to his colleagues in Arkansas. Batton was later arrested and convicted for raping a seven-year-old. In the end Mize discovered two more names through video analysis and repeated his cataloguing process twice more, preparing a package for agents in another Midwestern state and one in New England.
By the time investigators located the New England suspect, the man had committed suicide; the Midwestern suspect remains at large. Meanwhile, in December the U. Department of Justice announced that its investigation had dismantled the Lost Boy network. Federal authorities in LA had indicted nineteen defendants on charges of running a child-exploitation enterprise.
Two were charged with production of child pornography. To date, fifteen have been convicted, including Harout Sarafian and Woodrow Tracy.
One died in custody; three remain at large. Only one defendant has been sentenced; an FBI spokeswoman in LA declines to reveal whether Sarafian and Tracy were promised leniency in exchange for providing information, saying only that "it's fair, as a general statement, to say that cooperation is among multiple variables that factor into a sentence for a given defendant. His team, Osborn says, watched long-term victims "basically growing up in front of our eyes" as they gathered photographic evidence.
The Lost Boy investigation produced twenty spinoff investigations. To read more about the various investigations that spun off from the LA and St. Louis probes — including the case of SpongeBob, a. Antonio Cardenas — see accompanying sidebar. Mize concedes that repeated viewings of sexual molestation of children exact a psychological toll.
You have to take breaks. We're all very dedicated, but sometimes too much dedication can be harmful. His marathon sessions with the camping videos prompted protests on the home front. That said, he adds, "Nothing is as rewarding as knowing you're making a difference in protecting children.
The U. Attorney's Office in St. Louis charged Jeffrey Greenwell with five counts of producing child pornography. He entered a plea of not guilty and, having been denied bail, was sent to the Crawford County Jail to await his trial.
Employees at the Aerofil Technology manufacturing plant in Sullivan say they had no inkling of their former coworker's secret criminal obsession.
He was always convivial, they say, quick to crack a joke or help out a colleague in a pinch. But he was dependable and outgoing. He wasn't quiet or shy. Greenwell had no close friends outside of work, says Chuck Subke, the lead detective in the Franklin County Sheriff's Department.
His social interactions were confined to the children he aimed to molest, their mothers and his fellow pedophiles. The detective adds that Greenwell elected to work the overnight shift specifically because it gave him access to children during the day. According to the FBI, Greenwell spent the past two decades leading something of a nomadic life, bouncing between Pulaski, Phelps and Franklin counties in Missouri, molesting young victims all the while.
When he moved to Sullivan, they say, he attempted to launch his own photography business. He had moved into the cottage in Miramiguoa only months before his arrest and had no prior criminal record. Following his indictment, Greenwell underwent a psychological evaluation, parts of which are cited in a court document filed by federal prosecutor Carrie Costantin. He spoke of a troubled past and said he'd been sexually molested as a child.
When he was fifteen, he said, he molested two step-cousins, aged eight and ten. He'd been trading child pornography since He blamed his relationships with the boys' mothers: "If I would have walked away from these types of women, I wouldn't be in the situation that I am.
He blamed the investigators: "The way they showed pictures of the children around to the schools just doesn't seem right to me. That's finally how they ended up learning who I was.
Does it seem right to you? He blamed Lost Boy members: "I know how not to get caught, it's other people who compromised me, and that sucks.
S]eems like this is something that could have been avoided if people just would have left me alone. Greenwell's court-appointed attorney is JoAnn Trog, a partner at a small St. Louis practice. Trog says her client declined to be interviewed for this story. The counselor who evaluated Greenwell noted that the defendant got a "thrill" out of targeting victims through their mothers. Costantin concurs, quoting from a chat-room transcript that Brian Mize lifted from Greenwell's computer. Last June 22, the day his trial was to begin, Jeffrey Greenwell shaved off his beard.
Carrie Costantin says she suspects it was an attempt to distance himself from the man in the photographs submitted as evidence by the prosecution. In the end it wouldn't matter. All five victims whose allegations were detailed in Greenwell's indictment were prepared to take the witness stand.
Just before the jury was to be selected, the defendant confessed. He admitted to photographing the genitalia of all five boys and to performing various sexual acts on all of them, between and At the time of the sentencing the victims lived in Franklin, Phelps and Pulaski counties. Four were under the age of twelve when the abuse began.
Costantin says the youngest was four. On October 5 Greenwell was brought back to court for his sentencing hearing, facing 15 to 30 years on each of the five counts. The families of two of his victims were in attendance.
Greenwell's mother, brother and grandparents, as well as a family friend, had written letters in support of the defendant, hoping for leniency. Defense attorney JoAnn Trog asked U. District Court Judge Charles A. Shaw for compassion. Let's get this man the ability to come back out and to do something positive, to be a positive member of the community.
Offered the chance to speak, Greenwell apologized to the court and took responsibility for his actions. He said he'd never adequately dealt with issues that had dogged him nearly all his life. But if we didn't make mistakes, Your Honor, we wouldn't be human. And I've made some big ones and this is the biggest mistake I've ever made in my life. But I do know that I can change. And I just pray that your sentence will allow me that change. When it was Costantin's turn to address the court, she drew a distinction between Greenwell and all of the other pedophiles she'd prosecuted.
He sought out women with — single women with children. He sought them out on the Internet and at work. He befriended them. He dated them.
He got them to trust him with their children, and then he molested those children. He fondled their genitals. Anal sex with one child. Oral sex with others. He photographed that. And then he traded those photographs with other pedophiles of the Lost Boys [ sic ] pedophile group. Finally, Judge Shaw had his say.
Greenwell, you, as well as your attorney, Ms. Trog, say you are a good person. You may be a good person in some ways, but you are a very bad person in others, an extremely bad person. You have taken advantage of some of the most vulnerable people that exist: children.
You've shattered their lives. If you're going to be a useful citizen, you're going to have to be a useful citizen in the penitentiary, because you're going to be there for the rest of your life, and that's just the way that is. Two weeks later Trog appealed the year term on Greenwell's behalf. She contends that the federal government has enacted flawed sentencing guidelines, and that the sentence the trial court imposed was unreasonable and excessive in light of Greenwell's background and the nature of his offenses.
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