Rival, 41, Jailed After Boy’s Father Maimed by Bomb
A 41-year-old Washington state man obsessed with a 15-year-old Kennewick, Wash., girl, faces child rape and attempted murder charges after his homemade bomb blew the leg off her teenage boyfriend’s father, police said Wednesday.
Timothy Michael Goff of Port Orchard, Wash., was arrested Monday in Washington, police said.
Police said Goff planted a bomb in the driveway of the 17-year-old’s home on Sept. 27. It exploded when the boy’s father, Barry Hornstein, kicked it.
Goff and the girl had sex after meeting via an Internet chat room in October 1999, police said.
After she and Hornstein’s son met and began dating last summer, Goff tracked the Hornsteins down using the Internet and began harassing them, police said.
Police, in turn, used Internet accounts to track down Goff, who was described as a jobless pipe fitter.
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