Overview
- Virginia State Police confirm Travis Turner faces 10 counts, including five for possession of child pornography and five for using a computer to solicit a minor.
- The FBI, Virginia State Police and U.S. Marshals continue a weeks-long manhunt with no reported sightings or public breakthroughs.
- Turner vanished on November 20 as troopers prepared to question him, and his family’s attorney says he walked into nearby woods carrying a weapon when no active warrants had been issued.
- Criminologists and veteran detectives, speaking generally, say such cases often begin with undercover online stings or tech platforms flagging illicit images to law enforcement.
- Experts quoted in the coverage say the filing of charges suggests investigators seized images, videos and electronic devices, while others speculate his fate in difficult terrain remains uncertain.