John Jefferson
Inset: Stephen Glosser. Background: The victim’s home following the explosion (Bryan County Sheriff’s Office).
A Georgia man has been sentenced for blowing up a woman’s house and plotting to feed her child to a large snake.
In November, Stephen Glosser, 38, pleaded guilty to one count each of using an explosive to commit another felony and stalking. On Thursday, he was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for each count by U.S. District Court Chief Judge R. Stan Baker. The court assessed his sentences to run concurrently, or at the same time.
“The level of malevolent violence in this case is astounding, and it’s truly fortunate that there were no deaths as a result of this horrific crime,” said Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia Tara M. Lyons in a press release.
As Law&Crime previously reported, Glosser and another man, Caleb Kinsey, allegedly plotted an elaborate conspiracy against a woman Glosser briefly knew. The two men allegedly conceived of myriad sadistic methods to sketch out the woman’s demise.
“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 in the case reads.
Each of those allegations was echoed — and admitted to — in Glosser’s guilty plea. Kinsey still awaits further court proceedings for his alleged role in the scheme of retaliation and jealous revenge.
During a preliminary court appearance in 2023, an investigator said Glosser and the victim initially met through an online dating app, but the “quasi-relationship” did not last long, and they ended up blocking each other, Savannah-based CBS affiliate WTOC reported. That’s when Kinsey — Glosser’s friend and roommate at the time — allegedly got involved and helped Glosser plan the complicated crimes.
Glosser’s guilty plea also notes that he and his coconspirator communicated using their cellular phones to “create a plan to kill, intimidate, harass, or injure” the woman.
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 — a coastal city located just south of Savannah. There, the condemned man and an accomplice are believed to have constructed a device using Tannerite and other implements and then used it to “blow up the victim’s home,” the complaint alleges.
“Glosser located the victim’s residence using internet searches on his cellphone based on an image the victim had previously shared with Glosser,” the U.S. Department of Justice said in a press release. “After the bombing, Glosser hired a cleaning service to clean the carpets in his residence to hide traces of the bomb-making materials.”
The woman and her daughter were, in fact, home at the time — but miraculously were able to escape the blast with their lives.
“This case serves as a stark reminder that those who use terror and threats to intimidate others will face the full force of the law,” Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said. “We are fortunate that no lives were lost.”
Jerry Lambe contributed to this report.
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