Though she has spent decades dealing with some of the most depraved criminals imaginable, even Brown was surprised by the bizarre nature of this particular fetish and the Web site that catered to its devotees. "If you hang around long enough in my business you find things that you just can't believe are out there," she said. "I mean, there's a whole site for people who want to be snakes so they can swallow people. That's a sexual thing, too." But a Web site dedicated entirely to drowning as a fetish? "That's the weirdest thing I ever came across," she said.
No one knows for certain, she said, how many people share that particular proclivity. "I mean this site is not the only site out there. I can't give you actual numbers on those sorts of things...but it's certainly out there more than people realize.
"It isn't one of the biggest fetishes out there," she said, "because it's unpleasant, frankly. I mean getting drowned in the water isn't exactly overly fun and most people don't go for it, don't think it's that much of a kick...to actually pull each other under water and go through the fear... 'Am I going to get air?'... It's much harder to see."
Posing as a fifteen-year-old boy who had watched his own brother die in a back yard pool years earlier, Brown plunged into the sordid fantasy world of the drowning fetishists and soon made contact with the 37-year-old funeral home worker the cops had told her about.
The e-mails the two exchanged are both chilling and graphic.
In all of the cases, it was the man who wanted to do the drowning.
"Some people will present online as one who will share going under water, 'You drown me then I'll drown you' that type of thing," Brown said. "He's not like that at all. He doesn't like being drowned. He just lies about that so he's not really sharing (with) you. Once you get to the fantasy with him, he wants to do all the drowning. I mean he'll play at it one time or so to pretend that...you get your turn, but it isn't that way."
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