Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Utah Funeral Director Spencer Scott McDougal Poses As 17-Year-Old Online

Spencer Scott McDougal
Taylorsville, Utah

We seem to be on a roll with funeral directors again. Unlike the previous story, we now move on to one who likes his females warm. However, there is a problem. You see, this particular funeral director likes them underage. On his family blog, Spencer Scott McDougal appears to be a happily-married family man, even adopting a young girl from Ukraine. The blog is filled with pictures depicting a happy home life.

However, police are painting a different picture of McDougal and have charged him with felony production of child pornography and enticement for illegal sexual activity. Investigators say McDougal created a fake Facebook profile and posed as a 17-year-old boy to lure juveniles into sending him nude photos of themselves.

According to court documents, McDougal adopted the persona of "James Zupo Marsden" on the fake Facebook profile and not only claimed he was a 17-year-old, but that he was living in Idaho and previously lived in West Jordan.

McDougal allegedly contacted a teenaged girl through the website in January and forged a relationship. The two communicated through Facebook and email, the documents state.

After several months of communication, the girl took nude photos of herself with a cell phone and sent them to McDougal, believing he was a teen, the documents state.

It was a local church leader that blew the whistle on McDougal, contacting the Department of Children and Family Services in May. The member reported that an anonymous person had observed child pornography on McDougal’s home computer. One of the videos showed a minor walking around a bedroom in a towel, the documents state.

The Taylorsville Police Department began investigating the case and McDougal admitted during a June interview that he purchased a "nanny cam" that he hid in places where juveniles changed clothing or were naked, the documents state.

McDougal transferred videos from the nanny cam to his computer, he said. Computer analysts at the FBI’s Regional Computer Forensics Lab discovered "several videos and images of a minor in various stages of undress which appeared to have been taken by the nanny cam," the documents state.

Investigators also discovered sexually explicit images of a 16-year-old girl on McDougal’s computer.

A computer seized from McDougal’s private office at the funeral home provided evidence he had been operating the fake Facebook account and storing "several hundred" nude photos of minors on his cell phone and thumb drives, the documents state.

McDougal has been ordered held in the Davis County jail in the custody of U.S. Marshals as his court case proceeds.

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