SHELBY COUNTY, TX — A young man from Shelby County, Texas was recently arrested after attempting to obtain an underaged girl with the intent of murdering her and cannibalizing and raping her corpse.
People say the damndest things to undercover officers. Just ask 21-year-old Alexander Nathan Barter. He asked a Texas Department of Public Safety agent to bring his daughter to the slaughter, and now he's in a bit of trouble because of that big mouth.
The unfortunate-looking fellow is no luckier in love than he is in looks. Like many a lonely, lovelorn young man of interesting aspect and low aspirations, he cast his seeds of hope upon the fertile waters of the dark web, asking anyone who was down with necrophilia and cannibalism to hit him up.
As is so often the case, the depraved, like-minded individual who reached back out to him was actually a cop. And, as is also so often the case, Barter fell for it.
I mean, what did you think was gonna happen? Not to judge a book by its cover or anything, but it's pretty obvious that most, if not all, of homeboy's pages are blank.
I'm going to give him this, though: despite the cavalcade of shit that Life is certain to have thrown at Barter, he is upbeat and enthusiastic. His initial reply to Special Agent Man was a chipper "Nice! I’m in East Texas. How old is your daughter? Can we kill her?" followed by an enumeration of his pre- and post-mortem intentions in excruciating detail.
A subsequent flurry of emails saw Barter develop a reasonably astute plan to obtain his ends that involved burner phones, a fictitious camping trip and a "she just ran away" cover story, and ended with a hotel room and a garbage bag. October 19th was go-time.
The best laid plans of mice and men, as they say.
Barter was handed yet another crushing defeat by the cosmos when he bounced out of his house that day, right into the waiting arms of The Law. In keeping with his plan, digitally archived by investigators for all posterity, he had a knife and a garbage bag.
Not too surprisingly, Barter immediately confessed to everything. After being Mirandized, of course. Then he was arrested on four felony counts: criminal solicitation, attempted capital murder, conspiracy to commit capital murder, and attempted sexual performance with a child.
As sleazy as it seems that police departments across the nation spend countless hours every year chatting up perverts and degenerates on our dime, those delvings amongst the gutter slime that litters this nation sometimes yields a worthy result, and this is a prime example: if this individual had not gotten busted by a sting, he would have ended up butchering someone's little girl.
No doubt about it.