Cobra Killer (20 page)

A GUILTY PLEA
– Joseph Kerekes is led from the murder trial of Harlow Cuadra after refusing to testify in the case, despite having earlier pled guilty to murder.  
(Times-Leader photo used with permission)

THE DA
– Michael Melnick, a deputy district attorney for Luzerne County, accepts congratulations for the conviction of Harlow Cuadra from the victim’s father, Michael Kocis (at left).
(Times-Leader photo used with permission)

HEARTSICK –
José Cuadra (right, back to camera) attempts to shield his mother Gladis Zaldivar from reporters and photographers as they exit the courtroom shortly after the jury announced its guilty verdict against Harlow Cuadra.
(Times-Leader photo used with permission)

THE JUDGE
– Former Luzerne County Judge Peter Paul Olszewski, Jr.
who presided over the Cuadra murder trial, and sentenced both Cuadra and Kerekes to prison. 
(Times-Leader photo used with permission)

Pennsylvania Department of Corrections inmate photos of Harlow Cuadra and Joseph Kerekes. (Photos by Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, Coal Township Correctional Institution and Huntingdon State Correctional Institution)

DEMOLISHING THE PAST –
Wrecking crews removed what remained of Bryan Kocis’ home months after his murder.
(Times-Leader photo used with permission)

ALL THAT REMAINS –
All that remains of Bryan Kocis’ home is this landscaped lot along a quiet neighborhood street in Dallas, Pennsylvania.
(Photo by Peter A. Conway)

SCATTERED REMAINS –
Bryan Kocis was cremated and his ashes were later scattered over this lake known as the Ice Ponds in rural Luzerne County, PA.
(Photo by Peter A. Conway)

Sean Lockhart in the Role of Brent Corrigan

“I think one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned through all of this is simply that often times in order to fix your mistakes and learn from them, you must wear them, and in a sense, embrace them.”

—Sean Lockhart

Sean Paul William Lockhart was born on October 31, 1986.

If that fact had always been reported and known by anyone who met Sean, a world of controversy that has surrounded his gay porn career would not have existed. But when it counted, Lockhart admits he lied about his birthday and said he was born in 1985 and that one year of difference made all the difference. He almost, singlehandedly, set the gay porn world on its head.

Lockhart’s personal bio on his website, www.brentcorriganinc.com, notes that he has driver’s licenses from two states, a passport, Social Security card, and a citation for underage drinking on his twentieth birthday to, once and for all, prove his age. The true birth year is no longer a secret and Sean has moved beyond that.
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Lockhart was born the second of four children in Lewiston, Idaho, a tiny southeastern Idaho hamlet located about 280 miles south of Spokane, Washington. “I grew up in the suburbs…under an older brother who drove me up the wall…I have a younger brother and sister (and) I drive them up the wall (but) I know they love me.”

Lockhart describes his as a loving family, if not a close one. Now though, “We don’t talk often and scarcely see each other even on a yearly basis,” he reports.
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Lockhart said he has never met his biological father, and his mother and stepfather divorced when he was in third grade. “After that, my mother really wasn’t there very much. My stepfather raised me.”
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Seeing his mother on “holidays and every once in a while,” he believes his mother was “over” with being a parent and moved to San Diego, California, hundreds of miles away from her children.
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In school, Lockhart said he was a good student with a 3.2 GPA and was active in the drama society, student government, and some school athletics, although “I got sidetracked a bit and didn’t keep up with the sports as I’d have liked.” He credits his stepfather with doing a good job of raising him and his siblings, even without their mother present.
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Sean starts a new life in California and meets Bryan Kocis

At the age of sixteen, Lockhart himself moved to San Diego to be closer to his mother. By now, Lockhart was self-identifying as gay but was still closeted to his family. His dashing looks, however, had begun to get him noticed, and a common comparison was born: Lockhart indeed looks a lot like teen heart-throb Zac Efron (just one year older than Lockhart). “I told myself that since I wanted to direct (films), I needed to be in Southern California,” Lockhart reported. “I’d come here, do my two years in high school, get residency established and then go to UCLA or someplace similar. Between me and my dream lay a few major obstacles.”
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