GA Man Who Sent Python To Eat Child Before Bombing Home Sentenced

SAVANNAH, GA — One of two Chatham County men accused of unleashing a large python into a person's home to eat their daughter before bombing their home was sentenced to prison, federal prosecutors said.

Stephen Glosser, 38, of Savannah, pleaded guilty to stalking and use of an explosive to commit another felony offense, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia Tara M. Lyons said in a news release on Thursday.

Bryan County authorities responded on Jan. 13, 2023, to an explosion that caused heavy damage to a Richmond Hill home where two people were inside, prosecutors said.

Glosser and Caleb Kinsey, who was age 34 at the time, used electronic devices and a "destructive device" to surveil the victim "with the intent to kill, injure, harass or intimidate" them for about a month, prosecutors previously said.

With help from cell phones, prosecutors previously said Glosser and Kinsey shot arrows into the person's front door, retrieved and released the python into the victim's home to eat their daughter, and mailed feces or dead rats to their home. The duo also scalped the victim, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors recently said Glosser was able to find the victim's home by searching the internet using an image the victim previously shared with him.

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Kinsey was accused of buying exploding targets online, which prosecutors said he and Glosser used to craft a bomb and blow up the victim's home.

Glosser was then accused of hiring a service to clean the carpet in his own home to "hide traces of the bomb-making materials," prosecutors said.

Both Kinsey and Glosser were indicted in March 2024, prosecutors said.

The status of the victim and their daughter were not immediately known Monday.

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

U.S. District Court Chief Judge R. Stan Baker sentenced Glosser to 20 years in federal prison and ordered him to pay $507,781 in restitution to two victims in the case and serve three years of supervised release after he is released from prison, prosecutors said.

There is no parole in the federal system, prosecutors said.

Kinsey, who was taken into custody in Louisiana on unrelated charges, was charged on suspicion of false statement during the purchase of a firearm and possession of firearms by a convicted felon, prosecutors said. They added he is awaiting prosecution in the Southern District of Georgia.