Chansler, who was studying to become a pharmacist, used multiple personas and dozens of fake screen namessuch as HELLOthere and goodlookingguy313to dupe girls from 26 U.S. states, Canada, and the United Kingdom. And he used sophisticated techniques to keep anyone from learning his true identity.
Pretending to be 15-year-old boysall handsome and all involved in skateboardinghe trolled popular online hangouts to strike up relationships with teenage girls. In one instance on Stickam, a now-defunct live-streaming video website, evidence seized from his computer showed four girls all exposing their breasts. The girls are apparently having a sleepover, and Chansler contacted one of them through a random online chat, Meyer said. These girls thought they were having a video chat session with a 15-year-old boy that they would never see or hear from again, so they are all exposing themselves, not realizing that he is doing a screen capture and then hes coming back latervery often in a different personasaying, Hey Ive got these pictures of you, and if you dont want these sent to all your Myspace friends or posted on the Internet, you are going to do all of these naked poses for me.
It went from what would be relatively benign pictures to fulfilling Chanslers perverted desires, Meyer said, adding that while adults know that a young persons life is only beginning in high school, to a 13- or 14-year-old girl, thinking that all her friends or her parents might see a picture of her exposing her breasts, the fear was enough to make them comply with Chanslers demands, believing they had no better options.
When FBI agents interviewed Chansler after his arrest, they asked why he selected that age group. One of the comments he made, Meyer said, was that older girls wouldnt fall for his ploy.
But approximately 250 victims are still unidentified and may have no idea that Chansler was arrested and sent to jail.
Its important that we find these girls so that they dont have to be looking over their shoulder, wondering if this guy is still out there and is he looking for them and is he going to be coming back, Meyer explained, adding that some of these girls, now young women, need assistance. Many probably have never told anyone what they went through.