The Washington State dad accused of killing his daughter's boyfriend after he allegedly sold her into a sex-trafficking ring may not be telling truth, cops said, as the dead man's family claimed the murder suspect is no 'hero.'
John Eisenman, 60, has been charged with first-degree murder and is being held on a $1 million bond at Spokane County Jail in the grisly murder of Andrew Sorensen, 19, who was repeatedly stabbed to death before his rotting body was found hidden in the trunk of an abandoned car last month.
Cpl. Nick Briggs, a spokesperson for the Spokane Police Department, said the allegations of Sorensen's involvement in sex trafficking are coming solely from Eisenman.
'We can't corroborate the veracity of any of those statements,' Briggs told The Spokesman-Review.
Eisenman's underage daughter is not being identified because she was possible a victim of sex trafficking. She now resides in California, records show.
Sorensen's parents say their son, who was born with autism and cerebral palsy, is being demonized by Eisenman and his family.
His parents adopted him out of foster care when he was just six months old and they said he 'didn't have the capability to sex traffic anybody'.
'Our son had an IQ of 81,' said Theresa Sorensen, the teen's mother. 'If anybody could be taken advantage of, it was him.'
Briggs said the investigation into Sorensen's killing is ongoing. There has been no date set for Eisenman's next court appearance.
John Eisenman, 60, (appearing in court) was charged with first-degree murder and is being held on a $1 million bond at Spokane County Jail in Washington
Aaron Sorensen's rotting corpse was found in the trunk of an abandoned car on East Everett Avenue in Spokane last month, police said. Detectives believe he was killed last November
Theresa said that her son and Eisenman's daughter had been long-term friends and that it was 'painful' to learn the details of her son's gruesome death through the news.
'We didn't get to tell our side of the story,' Theresa Sorensen said. 'Because there is so much more out there about all of this that needs to come out.'
The Sorensen family released a statement Tuesday, revealing their yearlong hope to find their son. They also described Eisenman's recent confessions as 'hurtful'.
'We spent a year searching for him and hoping he would return,' the Sorensens said in a statement. 'Claims by his confessed killer have been very hurtful and only added to our family's grief.
'The word 'alleged' means of an incident without proof. It has already been reported: Both the FBI and Washington State Patrol said there is no sex trafficking investigation into the victim.'
They family said they had been advised by their lawyer and by the police not to speak publicly about the investigation.
Amber Hellmann, a resident of Rochester Heights Park, said her boyfriend and another friend noticed that a stolen and abandoned 1991 Honda Civic had been unmoved on their street for a while
Eisenman discovered last October that his juvenile daughter had been sex trafficked into Seattle by then-boyfriend Sorensen for $1,000, according to a police press release.
He was able to rescue the girl from the city and bring her back to Spokane that month.
He then learned that Sorensen was going to be at an address in Airway Heights, so he drove there and waited for the 19-year-old to arrive.
'During that encounter Eisenman abducted the victim, tying him up and placing him in the trunk of a vehicle. Eisenman subsequently assaulted the victim by hitting him in the
