Detectives may contact clients from computer
By LISA MARCHESONI
marchesoni@dnj.com
A wife and mother describing herself as a "voluptuous real woman" allegedly operated an Internet-based escort service from her exclusive Northwoods subdivision home in Murfreesboro, sheriff's detectives said Wednesday.
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Lisa Burris, 41, of 1500 Winterberry Drive, located in the north Murfreesboro subdivision, and associate Shirley Darlene Krystynak, 39, of Nashville allegedly met an undercover informant Wednesday at a Nashville hotel, said sheriff's narcotics Lt. Egon Grissom.
"He was to exchange $500 for both women for one hour," Grissom said.
They were arrested and cited for prostitution. Officers confiscated $1,500 cash from the unemployed women.
The investigation began in December when narcotics detectives received anonymous information Burris allegedly operated the escort service from her home. Sheriff's Narcotics Detective Jason Mathis began investigating. He knows Burris' husband, but didn't tell him about the anonymous call.
"By chance, her husband approached Detective Mathis (in February) asking for advice to contact a PI (private investigator) because he suspected his wife was prostituting herself," Grissom said. "He stumbled across some Internet information that led him to believe that."
The husband expressed concern about his wife's health and the welfare of their three young children, the lieutenant said. The husband didn't condone her actions.
Mathis located Burris' Web site where she operated under the screen name of "Honey."
"It was a detailed Web site with erotic pictures of herself," Mathis said.
Mathis said Burris described herself on her Web site.
"I am a voluptuous real woman, not a Barbie doll," Burris stated.
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She listed rates at $200 per hour and provided a glossary of services, Mathis said. There was no indication she brought anyone to her home, but operated the business from her Internet site, e-mail and her cellular telephone. She allegedly met clients away from her home.
"She did make reference it was a good idea for a working girl to not work in the area she lived in," Mathis said.
The Web site described how to contact Burris. She screened clients by asking for their real name, e-mail address, employer, telephone number, city and state.
Grissom said Burris set up appointments.
"She was very choosy and specific as to whom she dealt with," Grissom said, adding she allegedly met clients at expensive hotels and in New Orleans recently for Mardi Gras.
Burris' site linked to Krystynak, who used the screen name "Sunny," he said.
As part of the investigation, Mathis and Metro Nashville's Special Investigations Division set up a sting operation for the informant to meet the women Wednesday.
After Burris' arrest, Mathis obtained a search warrant for her home. Detectives and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agents began searching about 4 p.m. Wednesday.
"She appeared to have no remorse," Mathis said.
They seized her computer and two laptops containing records, documents and a "huge list of e-mail addresses we have to look at along with possible applications of her clients," Grissom said. "Ninety-eight percent of her records were on her computer."
The computers will be analyzed by TBI. More charges may be pending.
Detective Maj. Chuck Thomas said investigators may possibly contact clients as part of the probe. They intend to contact the Internal Revenue Service.
People who have information about the service are asked to contact Mathis at 895-3609
