By Chuck Hustmyre

March 22, 2007

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BRUNSWICK, Ga. (Crime Library)  —   A little more than three hours after 6-year-old Christopher Barrios disappeared, convicted child molester George Edenfield admitted to police that he had killed the kindergartener, according to a newly released search warrant affidavit.

 

An application for a warrant authorizing police to search the Edenfields' trailer at 121 Horseshoe Lane in the Canal Road Mobile Home Park, sworn to by Glynn County police Detective William Daras, says that police found Christopher's Star Wars light saber toy in the front yard of the mobile home that George Edenfield, a 32-year-old twice-convicted sex offender, shared with his parents, David and Peggy Edenfield, two hours after the boy disappeared.

Christopher was last seen March 8 at about 6:20 p.m. walking to his grandmother's trailer from a neighborhood swing set where he'd been playing alone. Christopher's grandmother, Sue Rodriguez, lives directly across the street from the Edenfields' trailer.

Christopher lived with his father, who was at work when the boy disappeared, in a mobile home located at 150 Horseshoe Lane.

Shortly after detectives found the light saber, they spoke to the Edenfields inside their mobile home, the affidavit says. Once they learned that George Edenfield had been convicted of molesting two boys and was on the state's sexual offender registry, investigators separated him from his parents and asked him about Christopher.

Edenfield told detectives that he'd watched Christopher walk home from school at about 2:45 that afternoon.

"He then stated that the "devil" told him to kill Christopher," the affidavit says.

Edenfield confessed to detectives that he had killed Christopher, although he refused to tell them the location of the boy's body because he was afraid that if he did, he would go to prison, according to the affidavit.

Over the next four days, as hundreds of law enforcement officers and volunteers combed the area within a five-mile radius of the trailer park, detectives continued to press the Edenfields for more information.

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