Operation Borderline

September, 1988

Robert Brase was a 34-year-old farmer from Shelby, Nebraska. He had been married ten years and was the father of two sons. He had no criminal record and no history of child abuse. The U.S. Postal Service apparently got his name from a list postal inspectors had found when they raided a California distributor of nudity-oriented video tapes. Although there was no evidence that Brase had ever ordered from this firm or any explanation of how his name got on the list, it was enough for the Feds. The...