In court on Thursday, Boulder County Deputy District Attorney Tim Johnson said Wind had been plotting to kidnap the girl for more than a year after meeting her in a kids' chatroom online. Wind had contacted the girl via online communication platforms Skype and Pinger, then drove out to Hartford, Connecticut, to get her in August...
A Longmont officer tried to contact Wind at his apartment, but Wind did not answer the door. The officer was able to reach Wind by telephone at work at IBM, and Wind told the officer a female "acquaintance" was staying at the apartment... The officer called the female on the phone and got her to answer the door to Ward's apartment. The officer identified her as the missing teen, even though when asked how old she was, she replied, "I'm 20, no I mean 19," after counting on her fingers...
According to the affidavit, the apartment was a two-bedroom unit, but one of the bedrooms was used as an exercise room. The girl said Wind slept in the exercise room and denied that Wind ever had sex with her. Detectives examined a laptop belonging to the victim and found images of male genitals and a poem that expressed love for "Tim." A friend of the victim's said she had been claiming to have a boyfriend named Tim for about a year.