The photos that led to deadly raid

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, February, 2008 | by Larry King Inquirer Staff Writer

The images arrived in sporadic batches, hundreds of photos showing children in sexually explicit activities. Collecting them on his computer in Utah, state agent Steve Gamvroulas said, he eventually traced the sender to a home in Hilltown Township, Bucks County. The evidence, Gamvroulas said yesterday, "was so good, so convincing," that FBI agents last Friday obtained a federal warrant to search the home where Darius Hill, 39, lived with his wife and two small daughters.

Three days later, Hill lay dead in his bedroom, shot six times - once by his own hand - in an after-dark raid that turned deadly. At least three investigations into Hill's death are now under way: two by law enforcement agencies, one by a lawyer hired by Hill's family. Child pornographers "know what...