Why Virginia police hired ‘catfish’ cop Austin Lee Edwards
by Summer Lin and Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times
Jan 09, 2023
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES — In a previously unreported letter obtained by The Times, the head of the Virginia State Police detailed errors in his agency’s hiring of Austin Lee Edwards, the now-deceased “catfish” cop who killed three people in Riverside in late November.
Although Edwards had told the agency about his 2016 visit to a psychiatric facility, the agency failed to search databases for his mental health history before hiring him as an officer, Col. Gary Settle, the state police superintendent, wrote in the letter, which was addressed to a post
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