A Crime of Shadows

After months of prowling Internet chat rooms, posing as the mother of two young daughters, Detective Michele Deery thought she had a live one: “parafling,” a married, middle-aged man who claimed he wanted to have sex with her kids. But was he just playing a twisted game of seduction?

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Dec 1, 2009
Length: 18 minutes (4,546 words)
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