Ga. man gets 20-years in prison for stalking woman he met on-line and bombing her home

A Chatham County, Georgia, man was sentenced this week to 20 years in prison for bombing a woman’s home and for planning to release a python into the home in the hopes it would devour the woman’s daughter, according to a February 23 report by the New York Post. Stephen Glosser, 38, of Savannah, was sentenced on Thursday after pleading guilty to planting and exploding that bomb which badly damaged the woman’s home, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia.

Additionally, Glosser pled guilty to stalking the woman, and was ordered to pay $507,781 in restitution to the two victims in the case, and to serve three years of supervised release upon completion of his prison sentence.  His 20 years in the slammer comes with no possibility of parole.

“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 Lyons. “This successful prosecution is a credit to the outstanding investigative work of the ATF and our state and local law enforcement partners.”

Background:  On January 13, 2023, Georgia’s Bryan County Emergency Services personnel responded to an explosion that extensively damaged the Richmond Hill home with two people inside. A subsequent investigation led to the arrest of Glosser and a co-conspirator, and to a March 2024 federal indictment.

Glosser’s guilty plea in the case describes his efforts to communicate with his co-conspirator to “create a plan to kill, intimidate, harass, or injure” the owner of the home.

“This included conspiring 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,” as spelled out in the guilty plea.

Glosser located the victim’s residence using Internet searches on his cell phone based on an image the victim had previously shared with Glosser. His co-conspirator purchased exploding targets online, and the two used the explosive material to construct a bomb that Glosser and his co-conspirator used to blow up the victim’s home. After the bombing, Glosser hired a cleaning service to clean the carpets in his residence to hide traces of the bomb-making materials.

Glosser, along with his co-conspirator, 34-year-old Caleb Kinsey, blew up the woman’s home as part of a bizarre and malicious plot to intimidate, harass, and harm the homeowner.  The motive behind these actions was rooted in Glosser’s efforts to terrorize and injure the victim, whom he had met through a dating app, according to CBS News.  Glosser’s co-conspirator, who was taken into custody in Louisiana on unrelated charges, is awaiting prosecution in the Southern District of Georgia.

Although law enforcement officials said that the house looked like it had been blown apart by a tornado after the bombing, the two people inside the home at the time of the explosion miraculously survived the ordeal. 

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(Source: U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Georgia)
(Cover photo, Stephen Glosser mugshot, Image credit: Bryan County Sheriff’s Office per X)

Posted by Richard Webster, Ace News Today
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