The warden at the Seagoville, Texas minimum security prison where Richard Thuerauf, 51, is serving his sentence rejected Thuerauf's request April 22. The appeal was filed today in U. S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri.
In the 20-page document, Thuerauf said he has been designated as a "chronic care" inmate due to previous heart failure and sleep apnea and asked to be released under the provisions of the CARES Act, which allows non-violent inmates to be released early to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Thuerauf, acting as his own attorney, said his conditions make him "highly vulnerable" to the virus.
Thuerauf, who pleaded guilty in 2018 and was sentenced in January 2019, is not eligible for release until April 4, 2023, according to Federal Bureau of Prisons records.
The crimes that landed Thuerauf in prison were detailed in the plea agreement:
On August 28, 2017, Joplin, Missouri, Police Department (JPD) Officer Laken Rawlins was dispatched to a residence in Joplin, Missouri.
Upon arrival, Officer Rawlins contacted Katherine Thuerauf. Katherine stated that on August 27, 2017, she got on to her husband, Richard Ray Thuerauf’s, HP laptop computer and observed child pornography images in the trash bin application.
On August 28, 2017, SMCCTF TFO Matthew Smith made contact with Thuerauf. Post-Miranda Thuerauf stated he had images of child pornography saved on the laptop computer and his iCloud account.
On August 28, 2017, SMCCTF TFO Matthew Smith made contact with Thuerauf. Post-Miranda Thuerauf stated he had images of child pornography saved on the laptop computer and his iCloud account.
Thuerauf admitted that he used his Apple iPhone 7+ to search for child pornography. On August 29, 2017, SMCCTF TFO Larry Roller conducted a forensic examination on Thuerauf’s Apple iPhone 7+. TFO Roller located numerous images of child pornography, that is children less than 18 years of age engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
On December 21, 2017, TFO Smith applied for and received a search warrant from the Jasper County Circuit Court for the search of Thuerauf’s Apple iCloud account and mr.rayt@yahoo.com.
On January 23, 2018, Apple Inc., responded to the search warrant. TFO Roller created a mirror image of the disk provided by Apple. Thuerauf had e-mailed multiple images of child pornography from his iCloud account, mr.rayt@icloud.com to mr.rayt@yahoo.com. August 18, 2017, was the first instance on which images were e-mailed between the two accounts. There were multiple images of child pornography saved inside Thuerauf’s iCloud Photo Library. TFO Roller confirmed that the Apple iPhone 7+ was manufactured outside the state of Missouri and would have had to cross state lines to enter.
A detention motion filed by the U. S. Attorney in February 2018 said Thuerauf had more than 1,000 child pornography images on his cell phone and 282 more on his iCloud.
A detention motion filed by the U. S. Attorney in February 2018 said Thuerauf had more than 1,000 child pornography images on his cell phone and 282 more on his iCloud.
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