Bradford Thomas Wagner | |
Birth Date: | March 31, 1968 |
Birth Place: | Bismarck, North Dakota, U.S.[1] |
Death Place: | Boulder, Colorado, U.S. |
Alias: | Tim Barnett |
Occupation: | Real estate agent and pornographic film star |
Bradford Thomas Wagner (March 31, 1968 – July 13, 2005) was an American real estate agent and former pornographic film actor who committed suicide while in police custody as a suspected serial rapist.[2] [3] [4]
Wagner was born in 1968 in Bismarck North Dakota. He had a brother and three sisters.[1]
Under the stage name Tim Barnett, he appeared in more than twenty gay pornographic films in the early 1990s.[2] He had also worked as a part-time ski instructor and as a real estate agent in Aspen, Colorado.
Police arrested Wagner in June 2004. He was a suspect in the rapes of five women between 1993 and 1998 at the Tantra Lake and Bridgewalk apartment complexes in Boulder, Colorado,[5] [6] an unsolved 1994 rape case in Lakewood, Colorado, and another in 1995 in Austin, Texas.[7] According to law enforcement officials, DNA evidence linked him to the crimes.[7]
Wagner hanged himself with a bed sheet in his jail cell in Boulder and died July 13, 2005. He was 37.[8]