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In Cobra Killer, authors Andrew E. Stoner and Peter A. Conway tell for the first time in full detail the twisted story of a pair of young, aspiring gay adult film producers whose quest for fame at any cost leads to the gruesome murder of the man who stands in their way, gay porn entrepreneur Bryan Kocis. News of the killing of the forty-four-year-old (stabbed twenty-eight times, his throat slashed to near decapitation) in his suburban home sends shock waves through the bucolic Pennsylvania town. Neighbors were horrified to hear about the murder but equally astonished to learn that Kocis ran a small but thriving online porn operation from his home. The murder investigation leads police and prosecutors to the far reaches of the country, from Virginia to New York City, to Las Vegas, and ultimately to a nude beach in San Diego, where investigators facilitate an incredible clandestine suspect surveillance. The manhunt nets Harlow Cuadra and his lover Joseph Kerekes, both former military men, turned male models, turned hustlers, turned porn producers, who finally land at the bottom of a deadly conspiracy. Cobra Killer takes readers into the sometimes alluring, sometimes dangerous and often surprising world of gay porn and the deceit, schemes, and ultimate betrayals lying underneath the fantasy.
Cobra Killer: Gay Porn, Murder, and the Manhunt to Bring the Killers to Justice, by Andrew E. Stoner, Peter A. Conway - Amazon Sales Rank: #361848 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .70" w x 6.00" l, .91 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 308 pages
Cobra Killer: Gay Porn, Murder, and the Manhunt to Bring the Killers to Justice, by Andrew E. Stoner, Peter A. Conway Review "An addictive page-turner you won't want to put down" -- San Diego LGBT Weekly"It's a terrific read and a fascinating story, and I highly recommend the book" -- The Derek and Romaine Show, SiriusXM OutQ 108"Three twisted cheers for Cobra Killer: a grisly, gripping documentary account of the 2007 killing of Bryan Kocis." -- PASSPORT Magazine "This book is not only jam packed with information and facts about the case it is a fascinating read for those unfamiliar with the case." -- EDGE Publications"The authors of Cobra Killer can be commended on structuring the book in a compelling manner" -- LAMBDA Literary"A very detailed book" -- San Diego Gay & Lesbian News "Cobra Killer truly delivers an assembly of thought provoking material parallel to the official record." -- GayPornGossip "Andrew Stoner and Peter Conway's true crime thriller is just that, a thriller." -- TLA Entertainment Group"I was reminded of Truman Capote's great nonfiction novel, "In Cold Blood" and here is another book in the same tradition." -- Amos Lassen"Co-authors Stoner and Conway have been assiduous about mining trial transcripts and blogs and interviewing the suspects to compile a soundly researched story" -- Richard Labonte"Cobra Killer isn't for the faint of heart. Nor is it for those looking for a fun summer read. For those who are looking for something more macabre, it may be hard to resist." -- The Philadelphia Gay News"Stoner and Conway left no stone unturned in their research for this book." -- Shelly's LGBT Book Review
About the Author Andrew E. Stoner is a former newspaper reporter in the area of law enforcement and true crime writer. He lives in California.Peter A. Conway is an authority on the Kocis murder case and operates the blog "Harlow & Joe on Trial." He lives in Virginia.In 2015, Andrew E. Stoner and Peter A. Conway, jointly appeared on Oxygen's Snapped: Killer Couples, Season 6, Episode 2: "Harlow Cuadra & Joe Kerekes", to further discuss the Kocis murder case.Film rights to the book were also sold for an anticipated 2016 independent theatrical release, "King Cobra" from James Franco and Justin Kelly.A web site also exists with all the latest news about "Cobra Killer" at cobrakiller.com
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter OneDuring third week of January 2007, Bryan Kocis boarded an airplane in San Diego for a long flight back home to Pennsylvania. He was filled with excitement and hope. It was a trip he had taken many times before over the last several years as his home-based gay pornography business began to grow. He’d found financial success in producing gay porn in the most unlikely of all places – tiny Dallas Township, Pennsylvania – and his company soon rivaled anything being produced in the porn capital of the world: the San Fernando Valley of California.He carried with him on this return flight to Pennsylvania a signed copy of a legal settlement that he thought ended an issue that had nagged him for more than a year. He thought he was nearing the end of a protracted and bitter fight that had brought him scorn and to the brink of arrest on federal child endangerment laws.The settlement settled a lot. But it ended nothing.Five days later, Kocis, 44, was dead, his head nearly severed from his body, his body curled into a fetal position and pierced with 28 separate knife wounds to the abdomen and chest. His body was charred with second and third degree burns that would render him unrecognizable. Police retrieved dental records to identify him. His life had ended on the leather sofa in his living room as his home was reduced to a smoking hull of burned up dreams.Bryan Kocis was dead and the hunt for what had brought such unparalleled violence to Dallas Township, Pennsylvania, was just beginning.The violence that took Kocis’ life would send shockwaves across the community, and ultimately across the country. His murder would reveal more about Kocis than most people ever knew, and even more about an unexpected enterprise operating from a base in stoic, conservative northeast Pennsylvania. As details emerged, first neighbors, then the community and ultimately everyone would know that Bryan Kocis had built a successful gay pornography business from his modest home – an undertaking that may have contributed to his death. His secrets would unfurl for all to see, revealing a complicated conspiracy.There was never any question the investigation into the murder of Bryan Kocis would be a joint effort. Dozens of officers from local, state and federal agencies would be involved, led by the Pennsylvania State Police Major Case Investigation. “Right from the outset we worked with the police and this investigation rested with the state police, as it should have,” assistant district attorney Michael Melnick said.Pennsylvania State Trooper Michael Boone, a 15-year veteran, was one of the first to arrive at the murder scene, a simple one-and-a-half story home at 60 Midland Drive at about 9:45 p.m. on Wednesday, January 24, 2007. Snow flurries had began to fall. His job: Process any evidence that could be collected from the scene.Boone, a member of the state police’s Forensic Services Unit, took measurements, made diagrams, and captured the scene in photographs and videotape. His first photographs included exterior views that showed intense burning to the front porch and entry to the home, burning so intense the ceiling and roof of the small porch began to collapse before firefighters could extinguish the flames. Outside, two small snow shovels were leaned against Kocis’ BMW parked next to the house. The intense fire had damaged the car, even melting headlamp casings.On the porch itself, a charred wooden bench and the remnants of what appeared to be melted plastic one-gallon gas tank. (2) The front door was burned and charred; the exterior “storm door” melted in place. Neither of the doors showed signs of forced entry. Inside the blackened living room, a portion of the ceiling had collapsed and heavy melting damage had occurred to a giant big-screen TV and entertainment center Kocis had just purchased a few weeks prior as a Christmas present to himself. The room’s picture window was blown out, the metal bar separating the panes dumped onto the sofa below. It was just part of the fire debris that fell upon the sofa, and Kocis’ lifeless body, as the fire raged.“(Kocis is) still lying on the couch,” Boone said in describing the scene. “He’s found lying on his back. This debris would have come down on top of him.”Boone’s photographs showed that most of the sofa’s cushion and stuffing had burned away, the frame being all that remained of the couch. “Mr. Kocis’ body (was) lying here,” he reported.Close-up photos of Kocis’ body showed his severely slashed throat, his skull almost severed from his body, as well as knife wounds to his left chest and abdomen. After Deputy Luzerne County Coroner William Lisman removed the body, and a large pool of blood and other biological fluids remained.As snow showers continued until after 1 a.m. and a slight accumulation began to show, investigators decided to place plastic tarps over exposed areas of the house to preserve all the evidence they could. One long, cold night of investigating was coming to a close, but days of hard work in the Pennsylvania winter lie ahead.Melnick, the assistant DA, got his first look at the scene in the morning light of Thursday, January 25.“It was bitterly cold that day,” Melnick said, recalling that as he stepped under a yellow police line tape surrounding the Kocis home, he was greeted with a stern ‘welcome’ from State Police Detective Steve Polishan who didn’t know Melnick from Adam.Melnick recalls Polishan telling him, “Very nice to meet you. We’ll meet you back at the Dallas Township Police Department.” Melnick took the hint to back off and waited to meet the detectives later in the tiny squad room of the Dallas Township Police Department, just a mile east of the murder scene.It would be two more days before investigators from the District Attorney’s office were allowed in the scene. State fire marshal and homicide investigators spent those two days painstakingly combing the burned rubble of the Kocis home, some detectives down on their hands and knees sifting for clues.Among the pieces of evidence collected by Trooper Boone was “a small little razor blade knife” found underneath the burned love seat. Behind the front door, on a small half-circle table, police recovered Kocis’ untouched wallet, a money clip with $60 cash in it, sunglasses, a pocket knife, and keys to his prized BMW. Police also found loaded handguns stashed throughout drawers in cabinets and end tables in the home. Kocis’ family members would later recover $1,800 in cash left in a kitchen drawer. In the kitchen sink, two long stem wine glasses and a broken wine bottle (damaged in the fire) and cocktail shaker were found.Investigators did not find any fingerprints on any of the items collected. It was no surprise. “Heat is very bad for a latent print,” Boone said. “The latent print is going to be as a result of secretions from the body and the pores of the fingertips.”Boone said the heat destroyed any remaining sweat or oil needed to leave a print from anyone who was in the room before the fire
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A good view into a crime in an industry most people know about but know little concerning. By John J. Petry I remember when all this was happening and once stumbled across the web page put up by the family of one of the killers, Cuadra, in which they claimed his innocence. The language there mirrored much of the language found in the book and attributed to Cuadra. The book is well written in that it is not full of obnoxious value judgments as some true crime books are but it has far too much repetition of material as it if was written as a serial on a web page or in a magazine where it was important to remind the reader of what had passes before. The author allows people to get some idea of the different people in the story and make their own opinions about them. Bryan Kochis does not come out well as a human being frankly but he is not painted as a complete monster by the author but rather as a complex human being. Also the book does not shy away from the criticism of the porn industry but does paint it more fairly than many people do who are not involved in the industry. There are a lot of value judgment made about the people involved in the porn industry and its connection with the world's oldest profession. The truth is the motivations and personalities of the many people involved in the porn industry are as widespread and complex as those in any other part of society. The book does not make the characters here into stereotypes designed to make the reader feel somehow morally superior merely because the people are involved in the porn industry.I was curious about this story because I have a very tenuous connection to Sean Lockhart in that a friend of mine was an actor at another studio when Sean was also working there. My friend did no scenes with Sean but was impressed with his professionalism and all around character. I have also seen some of Sean's work in non-porn roles and he has some talent. I don't think he is ever going to be receiving an Oscar since he is never going to get the types of roles which will allow such to happen but he is comfortable in front of a camera and does a good job in the roles he has had. One wonders what would have happened to him had he been afforded a more decent life as a child and later when he first went on his own.Now that the story is being made into a movie [with the same title as the book] by James Franco with Garrett Clayton playing Sean Lockhart one wonders if the book will see an increase in sales.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Scandal, sex and intrigue in the adult film world By T Informative and impressive book on the life of Brent Corrigan (Sean Paul Lockhart) and his connections to a sleezy and secretive porn producer/film maker. The ins and out of the murderers and their background and what led to a sick crime that still has people questioning today were Corrigan and his lover really involved or not. If you know of this story you will like the precise details.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Porn gossip junkie gives thumbs up to this book By michael stebbins I am a closet-porn-watcher and I had heard about this scandal...and, what a scandal it was. No, it ain't up there with Hemingway and it ain't a book to win a Pulizer, but it hold your interest especially if you 1] like true stories and 2] are into following the lives of gay porn star ... like i am.
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