Man who bombed woman’s house and plotted to release python to eat her daughter is sentenced

SAVANNAH, Ga. (TCN) -- A 38-year-old man will spend two decades behind bars for bombing a woman’s house and planning to release a python to kill her daughter.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia announced Feb. 20 that Stephen Glosser pleaded guilty to stalking and use of an explosive to commit another felony offense, and a judge sentenced him to 240 months, or 20 years, in federal prison. Glosser will also have to pay over $500,000 in restitution to two victims and serve three years of supervised release. Glosser and his co-defendant, Caleb Kinsey, were indicted in March 2024.

According to prosecutors, Bryan County emergency services personnel responded to a damaged house with two people inside on Jan. 13, 2023. WSAV-TV identified the homeowner as Larissa Apperson, who said, "This home on Demeries Lake was my dream home." Her daughter’s father reportedly died before she purchased the residence.

Glosser and Kinsey allegedly used electronic communications and surveilled Apperson from December 2022 to January 2023 "with the intent to kill, injure, harass, or intimidate" and used a "destructive device" in the process.

Glosser admitted that he and Kinsey planned to "shoot arrows into the victim’s front door," and they plotted to "release a large python into the victim’s home to eat" her daughter. Federal prosecutors also said as part of his plea, Glosser confessed that he and Kinsey conspired to obtain and "mail dog feces to the victim’s” house, as well as dead rats. As part of the defendants’ plot, they allegedly planned to "scalp the victim" and bomb her residence.

Glosser found Apperson’s home by searching online with his cellphone from an image she had previously shown him. According to the U.S. Attorney’s office, Kinsey and Glosser built a bomb to blow up the woman’s residence using explosive material Kinsey purchased.

Following the explosion, Glosser reportedly hired a service to clean the floors in his home and conceal any evidence of the explosive materials used to create the weapon.

Prosecutors said Kinsey is awaiting further proceedings.

In a statement, Acting U.S. Attorney Lyons said, "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."

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