Austin Chapman

Austin Chapman was an accomplice of serial killer Robert Johnson.

History
Not much is known about Austin, other than that he was a businessman and store owner in Boise, Idaho as well as a closet voyeur and had a wife, adult children and grandchildren. At some point, he met Robert Johnson, a narcissist who later killed a number of women and posted videos of it online. The details of their first encounter, which preceded the killings, are vague at best, but Austin claimed that they met when came into his appliance store. Apparently interested in being able to watch live murders, he gave Robert access to a walk-in freezer he owned for him to use as a hiding place for his victims. This would serve as his "collateral" in order to prevent him from informing the police, while the other voyeurs who watched the videos received illegal videos, such as child pornography and torture videos. Later, when Garcia tracked down some of the viewers, Austin was arrested, since witnessing a murder and not reporting it makes one an accessory to murder, but claimed not to have watched the murders. When his computers were checked, the investigators found no collateral of any kind. Rossi, who questioned him, figured that Austin didn't fit the profile of the other voyeurs. Later, when Robert prepared to kill again, streaming live, the BAU discovered that he was using a freezer as hiding place. Rossi figured it was given to him by Austin and confronted him. When Austin kept denying, Rossi threatened to ensure that Austin's arrest would be publisized all over the Internet for everyone, including his family, to see, Austin gave up the location. After Robert was caught and arrested, Rossi showed Austin an online article about his arrest, remarking that he didn't arrange for it to happen.