Brian David "Blaze" Boersma
A Decatur man outfitted a trailer with restraints, a mattress and gynecological equipment to facilitate the planned kidnapping, rape and murder of a mother, and had plans to sell her 14-year-old daughter to a pimp in Memphis, according to the guilty plea he entered Monday.
Brian David "Blaze" Boersma, 48, pleaded guilty to attempted kidnapping of a minor, attempted kidnapping, attempted sex trafficking of a child, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime. A sentencing date has not been set.
“Boersma has revealed the worst parts of human depravity and his guilty plea provides little comfort to those who would have suffered unspeakable horrors,” U.S. Attorney Jay Town said in a statement. “He will spend most, if not all, of the remainder of his life in prison … and then he has hell to look forward to.”
The sting operation that led to Boersma’s arrest and conviction involved a confidential source contacted by Boersma to coordinate the planned kidnapping and undercover agents — posing as kidnappers — who recorded conversations with the defendant in Decatur.
Boersma initially contacted the informant Sept. 13 to ask if the informant could find someone willing to kidnap the mother and daughter, according to the plea agreement that he signed and affirmed as being substantially correct.
He claimed he had previously dated the mother, but was kidnapping them on behalf of her ex-husband. The kidnapping was to take place before a court hearing that would increase the ex-husband’s child support payments.
An ex-husband is not named in the pleadings, and the U.S. Attorney's Office did not return calls Monday.
The next day, Boersma concealed $2,470 for the informant in a bathroom at Alabama Farmers Cooperative in Decatur, where Boersma worked. The informant contacted an FBI agent, who told him to pick up the money and meet with the agent after work. The informant then provided the FBI with a photo and other information on Boersma, and information on the planned kidnapping victims.
Boersma’s contacts with the informant continued. He told the informant the ex-husband intended to bullwhip the mom and “make her disappear.”
Boersma, whose job at the co-op involved moving trailers on the site, said he planned to lock the mother and child in one that was not visible from security cameras. He said he had purchased gynecological speculums on eBay and attached them to a metal stand, and placed plastic sheeting on the floor of the trailer to assist in the anticipated cleanup after the two had been kidnapped and after the mom had been raped, tortured and killed.
Boersma also told the informant that he previously has kidnapped girls and sold them to a Memphis contact for $10,000, but hoped to get $40,000 for this girl. He told the informant he could have sex with the mom, but not with the girl because it would decrease her value. He expressed concern that he would have to quickly sell the girl before any Amber Alert was issued, or hold her for a month until the alert was attracting less attention.
The undercover agents first met with Boersma and the informant Oct. 10, according to the plea agreement, at the Courtyard Marriott in Decatur. At their request, he texted photos of the intended victims. He paid them more money, and told them they should drop the kidnapping victims off at the trailer at the co-op. He wanted them alive, he said, but “if they had to beat them up a little bit, so be it.”
“Once she is dead,” he said of the mom, “then I am going to have to go get 300 pounds of lime and dig a hole.” He said he would bury the body under a nearby bridge, and that the lime would accelerate decomposition of her body to avoid detection.
Boersma said he would go to a gym with cameras during the kidnapping so he would have an alibi. He went with the undercover agents to show them where the mother worked and lived, and to show them the trailer at the co-op where they should leave the two victims. He provided them the combination for a lock on the trailer.
They returned to the Courtyard Marriott. After the undercover agents left, Boersma was arrested while walking to his truck, according to the plea agreement.
A search of his truck revealed a loaded handgun, numerous sex toys, an eBay shipment of several speculums and restraint ties. His cellphone included a nude photo of the mom in a bathtub, apparently unconscious.
A search of the trailer at the co-op revealed an inflated mattress atop plastic sheeting, a metal T stand, bungee cords, metal tie wires affixed to the inside of the trailer, cloth gags and duct tape.
“It is unacceptable for adults to take advantage of minors in such a way that will forever impact their lives, and the deplorable behavior exhibited in this case is beyond comprehension,” FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr. said in a statement. “Human trafficking steals the innocence from our children and young women, and individuals like Boersma, who prey upon the vulnerable, need to be removed from our society.”
The penalty for attempted kidnapping of a minor is a minimum of 20 years in prison. Attempted sex trafficking of children carries a prison penalty of 10 years to life. Attempted kidnapping carries a maximum 20-year prison sentence.
The maximum prison sentence for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon is 10 years. Possessing a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime carries a minimum five-year prison sentence that must run consecutively to any other term of imprisonment imposed.
— eric@decaturdaily.com or 256-340-2435. Twitter @DD_Fleischauer.
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