From left to right, Stephen Glosser and Caleb Kinsey. Inset shows victim’s home following the explosion (Georgia Office of Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire)
Two men in Georgia are facing a spate federal felony charges for allegedly blowing up a woman’s house last year while also plotting to scalp the victim and feed her young daughter to a live python.
Stephen Glosser, 37, and Caleb Kinsey, 34, were indicted on charges of stalking, using an explosive to commit another felony offense, conspiracy to use an explosive to commit a felony, and possession of an unregistered destructive device, authorities announced.
Kinsey was also charged with making false statements during the purchase of a firearm and being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
According to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia, the men were indicted by a federal grand jury earlier this month.
Authorities state in a criminal complaint that the duo conspired to “kill, harass, intimidate, or injure” the victim and her child. The complaint alleges that from December 2022 to January 2023, Glosser and Kinsey used electronic communications to place the victim under surveillance and used a destructive device during that conduct.
Prosecutors said the men used cellphones to plot the victim’s demise through myriad sadistic methods
“This included plans to acquire and shoot arrows into the victim’s front door, acquire and release a large python into the victim’s home to eat the victim’s daughter, acquire and mail dog feces to the victim’s home, acquire and mail dead rats to the victim’s home, to scalp the victim, and to blow up the victim’s home,” the complaint states.
Glosser and Kinsey were ultimately successful in blowing up the victim’s home, authorities allege. The victim and her daughter were both home at the time of the explosion but were able to escape unscathed, authorities said.
The complaint states that Glosser located the victim’s home address via internet searches based on an image of the house that she had previously shared with him. He then used his cellphone to get directions to the house.
Meanwhile, Kinsey allegedly purchased Tannerite, a brand of binary explosive shooting target designed to blow up when struck by a high-velocity bullet and used mostly for long-range target practice. The duo allegedly used the binary explosive material from the targets as well as other chemical agents to create an improvised explosive device.
In the early morning hours of Jan. 13, 2023, Glosser and Kinsey allegedly went to the victim’s home on Dremeries Lake Court in Richmond Hill, Georgia, where they constructed the device and used it to “blow up the victim’s home.”
During a preliminary court appearance last year, an ATF investigator said that Glosser and the victim had initially met through an online dating app, but the “quasi-relationship” did not last long and they ended up blocking each other, Savannah CBS affiliate WTOC reported. That’s when Kinsey, Glosser’s friend and roommate at the time, got involved in the situation and allegedly helped Glosser plan to get revenge on the victim.
“His roommate and friend, Caleb Kinsey, there was a text message from him to (the victim) and then eventually an internet source that we identified as a potential internet source that the number came back to that made comments asking if she wanted to die, that the demons will kill her,” the ATF agent reportedly testified.
The agent also said they obtained photographic evidence implicating the two men in the bombing and that an eyewitness saw a black SUV — later linked to Kinsey — speeding away from the area immediately after the bombing. The photographic evidence was reportedly obtained after the men’s cellphones were seized and searched.
“They were both posing with the Tannerite, with Tannerite hats on,” the ATF agent reportedly said. “We also have evidence of 80 pounds of Tannerite being ordered and delivered to the residents.”
Both men remain in detention without bond.
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