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Prosecutors said Friday girls under the age of 16 may have been hired by an Elkhorn man to strip on his neighbor's porch.
A Douglas County judge set bond for Douglas Goldsberry, 45, at $100,000 and ordered him to stand trial on felony pandering and solicitation charges.
During the court appearance, prosecutors said Goldsberry attempted to flee when his arrest became imminent. Law enforcement found him at a hotel, with a suicide note and an electrical cord configured into a noose.
Court documents said Goldsberry, a married man, admitted to investigators that he would solicit prostitutes to his neighbors' home, asking them to strip down, and watching the women, occasionally taking photos from his kitchen window across the street.
This may have happened more than 70 times over a period of 3 1/2 years.
"It's very twisted, "Don Kleine, Douglas County Attorney said.
A defense attorney said Goldsberry had left the house because his wife has filed for divorce, and his neighbors have obtained a protection order.
A couple with two toddlers lives in the home that was targeted. Court documents said the family feared for their safety as the women would strip down on the porch, then occasionally kick the door or urinate in the yard, expecting payment.
Friday, prosecutors say an investigation was looking at the age of some of those hired to perform, but "some may have been under 16."
Deputies made contact with some of the escorts, tracing communications in their phones back to an app. That app led investigators to a Cox Communications account registered to a subscriber at Goldsberry's home.
Investigators said Goldsberry also admitted to meeting escorts at hotel rooms on a regular basis and exchanging money for sex.
"It's obviously a little bit hard to imagine, to fathom, that somebody would go to these lengths to have women appear at a neighbor's house, so he could watch them," Kleine said.
Kleine said the charge for solicitation of prostitution is Goldsberry's second offense.
Neighbors in the area said the strange activity has been causing concern for years, even happening to the previous owners of the home.
Now, they're just happy to have an explanation for the bizarre occurrence.
"Well, I'm glad its come to a close. I mean, so the people on the house on the corner, they can start living a normal life and be outside with their kids and things go back to normal in our neighborhood," one man said.
The family across the street has now taken out a protection order against him. They declined to comment.
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