Recent revelations from the Kegan Kline interrogation transcript obtained by the Murder Sheet podcast provide a glimpse into the sinister world of internet child predators. The lengthy police interview reveals how Kline, operating under the online profile anthony_shots, was able to connect with victims, obtain their trust and convince them to provide images, identities and private details of their lives. There is even a bizarre portion of the interview where interrogators and Kline discuss a situation where he and another profile seem to be catfishing one another. However, Kline admits to the police interrogator that he was aware at the time that he was probably interacting with someone more like himself rather than an underrage girl.
For much of the interview, interrogators confront Kline with evidence that he was almost certainly not the only person with access to the anthony_shots profile. Investigators zero in on Kegan Kline’s father, Tony Kline, as another individual who could have been logging into the account. Their interest in Tony Kline could make him a potential suspect in the Delphi murders as well as in a disturbing peeping tom incident referenced in the transcript. In both instances, the anthony_shots profile was in communication with the girls and had knowledge of their whereabouts prior to the incidents.
The networking of catfishers along with the potential for multiple individuals to have access to a single profile illustrates how these online predators share their revolting plunder with one another. It also begs the question, how widely disseminated were the images and interactions obtained by the anthony_shots profile? Could others, besides the Klines, have obtained information on the victims prior to the incidents discussed in the interrogation? What is the likelihood that a group could be sharing their twisted fantasies with one another, resulting in someone in their midst manifesting their vile yearnings in the real world?
Around the time investigators announced they were seeking information on the anthony_shots profile, in another part of the State of Indiana, a man named Trent Walker of Spencer County was revealed to have been the mastermind of an online group that preyed upon children. According to a November 17, 2021 Department of Justice press release, Walker “was sentenced to 210 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting two young children and sharing the images and videos he created.”
The description of Walker’s crimes is beyond horrifying. “Trent Walker, 36, began sexually abusing one of the victims when she was a toddler. The abuse continued over a six-year period and was sadistic in nature. During the sentencing hearing, Judge Richard L. Young, who presided, noted that Walker’s abuse of the child could fairly be described as torture. Walker also abused a six-year-old child for a several-month period. Both victims were in Walker’s care when he abused them.
“Walker created hundreds of images and videos of his sexual abuse of both victims, which he shared with an online group he ran. The group was dedicated to sadistically exploiting small children, some as young as infants. Walker served as the group’s moderator. He encouraged others to share sadistic abuse material, trained others how to conceal their identities online to avoid detection, and coached members of the group on how to abuse young children psychologically, physically, and sexually,” the press release states.
While Spencer County is hundreds of miles from Delphi, the case is instructive because it exposes not only the lone monster inhabiting a dark corner of an unsuspecting community, but also reveals with terrifying clarity how an individual bent on depravity and destruction is able to connect with, instruct and train a whole network of like-minded predators via the internet. The online group to which Trent Walker served as moderator was “dedicated to sadistically exploiting small children.” Walker “coached members of the group on how to abuse young children psychologically, physically, and sexually.” The idea of a lone individual offender engaging in this type of behavior is chilling enough. The reality that entire groups exist to promote and spread this evil is disturbing beyond comprehension.
It’s been five years since the Delphi murders. Five years ago a figure appeared on a bridge. His blurred likeness was captured on video for all to see, and his words were recorded for the world to hear. Yet no one, as far as we know, has been able to recognize and identify the individual. Adding to the mystery, no one knows definitively how he got out on that bridge or how he fled the scene once he had completed his cruel handiwork. He disappeared as mysteriously as he materialized, becoming a spirit in the wind, a demonic force evading capture. Five years ago, on an abandoned railroad bridge 70 feet above a frigid creek, two innocent children of the Delphi community crossed paths with a figure from nowhere. A sinister force partially molded in the depraved and disgusting hovels of the internet, emerging into the physical world to enact his sadistic nightmares. No doubt he’ll be found lurking there in his dark sanctuary, concealed in some dread corner of the web.
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