“I Think I Just Saw a Man Sell His Wife to Traffickers”: A Witness Describes a Disturbing Exchange in the Stonebriar Church Lobby
A witness describes the moment he believed he had just witnessed a man arrange for his estranged former wife to disappear. The reported cheque exchange, Cameron’s reaction, and the witness’s desperate attempts to alert others became one of the most disturbing accounts to emerge from DCN’s Stonebriar investigation.
Editor’s Note: This article presents witness testimony regarding events reported to have occurred inside Stonebriar Community Church in 2018. Unless otherwise indicated, descriptions reflect what witnesses reported observing. Individuals referenced in this article have denied wrongdoing where noted elsewhere in this investigative series. The purpose of this report is to document witness accounts and place them within the broader Stonebriar investigation.
DALLAS, TX—During the same period that witnesses reported alleged escort recruitment, suspected child trafficking procurement disguised as adoptions, and financial exchanges involving cheque payments inside Stonebriar Community Church’s lobby, one witness described another encounter that he said left him more shaken than any other.
According to the witness, individuals in the lobby were openly discussing cheque payments they said were connected to children referred through what was presented as an adoption process. Witnesses reported conversations comparing cheque amounts that allegedly varied on a “case-by-case” basis, discussing limits on how many children someone could refer, and attempting to recruit women to work as escorts. Multiple witnesses believed these purported adoptions were, in reality, procurement for suspected child trafficking, although law enforcement stated that conversations alone were insufficient to establish criminal charges at the time.
Against that backdrop, the witness said he observed an exchange that immediately captured his attention.
According to the witness, a man identified by now former Stonebriar Church choir member Victoria Cameron as her estranged former husband Colin approached an individual who had already been involved in other conversations the witness believed were related to trafficking activity.
The witness stated that the man handed the individual a cheque.
He then reportedly said,
“Make sure no one sees my estranged former wife ever again. I don’t have a wife.”
He then reportedly looked straight at Cameron and said,
“Did you hear me? I made sure you heard me for a reason. I don’t have a wife.”
He then reportedly said to the individual he had just handed the cheque,
“I have a girlfriend. I can’t have her disrupting my life.”
According to the witness, the individual accepted the cheque and replied that they would “take care of it,” responding, in the witness’s words, “like a dutiful servant.”
The witness said the man then looked directly toward Cameron while referring to his estranged former wife.
Unsure what he had just witnessed, the witness immediately turned toward Cameron and asked if she knew the man.
According to the witness, Cameron appeared petrified.
He described her as frozen in place, unable to speak, and visibly overwhelmed.
Why His Presence Was So Significant
According to Cameron, the man identified by the witness was Colin, her estranged former husband.
Months before these events, he had invited her, through members of his family, to begin attending Stonebriar Community Church. Cameron said she understood the invitation to mean that, after completing a Christian rehabilitation program, he wanted to reconcile and begin rebuilding their broken marriage.
She accepted the invitation and began attending Stonebriar Church in November 2017, the week before Thanksgiving.
According to Cameron, after she arrived at the church, no reconciliation followed.
Instead, she said he largely ignored her, avoided meaningful interaction, and offered no support during a period in which she had recently experienced significant personal hardship.
The witness stated that he did not know this history when he observed the exchange.
Only after seeing Cameron’s reaction did he realize the significance of the conversation.
“I Think I Just Saw a Man Sell His Wife to Traffickers.”
According to the witness, it took several moments before he fully processed what he believed he had just seen.
He recalled turning to people standing nearby and saying,
“Oh my gosh… I think I just saw a man sell his wife to traffickers.”
Still visibly shaken, he began asking others around him,
“Did you just see that? What do I do?”
The witness said he continued trying to draw the attention of nearby church attenders to the exchange because he could hardly believe what he believed he had witnessed.
According to the witness, the possibility that such a conversation could occur openly inside a church lobby was almost impossible for him to comprehend.
Why Nothing Happened Immediately
The witness was later told by law enforcement that the cheque itself did not establish what the payment was for.
What alarmed him, he said, was the combination of the reported conversation, the cheque exchange, the man’s statement about his estranged former wife, his glance toward Cameron, and Cameron’s immediate reaction when asked whether she knew him.
Taken together, the witness said those events convinced him that he had witnessed something far more serious than an ordinary financial transaction.
Yet it was also recognized that there was no tangible evidence establishing the purpose of the cheque.
Others in the lobby had witnessed only portions of the conversations, and alternative explanations could not be ruled out based on the cheque alone.
According to the witness, this was one of the most frustrating aspects of the incident.
He believed he had witnessed something profoundly disturbing, yet there was no immediate way to prove what the payment represented.
As he alerted those around him, he found himself repeating,
“Did you just see that? What do I do?”
A Different Explanation
In the moments that followed, according to the witness, people nearby began asking questions about what had just occurred.
When Colin was asked what the conversation had been about, the witness said he replied that the cheque had nothing to do with Cameron.
According to the witness, he explained that he was paying the woman to have his dog euthanized and that the conversation concerned arrangements for putting the dog to sleep.
The witness said he found that explanation difficult to reconcile with what he believed he had just observed.
He maintained that his concern did not arise from the cheque alone, but from the combination of the reported statement, the man’s glance toward Cameron while referring to his estranged former wife, Cameron’s immediate reaction when asked whether she knew him, and the sequence of events that had unfolded in front of him.
Whether the cheque represented what the witness believed it represented remains disputed.
As with other incidents described in this investigative series, the purpose of the cheque could not be independently verified. The witness’s account and Colin’s reported explanation therefore remain in dispute.
What is not disputed is that the witness immediately reacted with alarm, attempted to alert others around him, and later reported the incident as part of the broader Stonebriar investigation.
His account adds another reported incident to a growing body of witness testimony describing alleged escort recruitment, suspected child trafficking procurement disguised as adoptions, and financial exchanges that multiple witnesses reported observing inside Stonebriar Community Church’s lobby.
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Stonebriar Church in Frisco, TX
Stonebriar Community Church is an Evangelical traditional style church located in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex at 4801 Legendary Dr, Frisco, TX 75034. The pastor of Stonebriar Church at the time of this incident was founding pastor Chuck Swindoll, who retired in October 2024. Chuck Swindoll is an evangelical Christian pastor, author, educator, and radio preacher. He founded Insight for Living, and is chancellor emeritus at Dallas Theological Seminary. Jonathan Murphy is the current senior pastor of Stonebriar Church. The church website is: https://www.stonebriar.org
