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his voice is heard asking questions off-camera and his hand sometimes intercedes on camera to touch the men. (2)
    Kocis discloses in his description of Casting Couch I on Pornteam.com that “I had to get three forms of ID on little Jonathan as this nineteen-year-old guy looks much younger than his years.” He adds that in one of two duo scenes in the video, the pairing of an actor named Tim with Austin required “an early session we had done for practice” when Tim “had just turned eighteen.” (3)
    Kocis’ commitment to casting young guys in his videos found a welcome audience among gay porn buyers. An online review posted of one of Kocis’ early efforts noted that “although Cobra Video videos are categorized as amateur, you’re not gonna find anything amateurish about these hot young guys auditioning for a very talented, up and coming production company.” (4)
    A description of Casting Couch III contains a troubling reference from Kocis. Whether true or just suggested to help sell the video, he notes that one of the actors will “tantalize you when you hear him talk about his first experience at eight years old and then how he purposely was bad at school so he would get sent to detention with a very special teacher.” Casting Couch III shows scenes filmed around various parts of Kocis’ home, including his upstairs bedroom and the living room (where he would later be murdered). (5)
    Campus Boyz I was reviewed at Radvideo.com as “the video that started the ball rolling from this great studio (Cobra)” and dubbed it “a true classic for its time, and a real trailblazer when the amateur bareback niche first made a comeback.” (6)
    Austin’s Beach Buddies, starring one of Kocis’ most popular discoveries, “original Cobraboy” Austin Sterling, broke the mold of earlier Cobra productions and was filmed away from Kocis’ Midland Drive home, partially on the Delaware shore, presumably during the summer of 2000 or 2001. The video features single-named “Cobraboyz” Justin and Kaipo who appeared in several other Cobra productions and again featured bareback, or condomless, anal sex that would become a trademark of Cobra videos. The Radvideo.com reviewer of Austin’s Beach Buddies gushed when he dubbed it “without a doubt one of the best twink videos you will ever purchase.” (7)
    In 2002, the year Kocis served his criminal probation for his earlier arrest, it appears video production at Cobra continued, but at a slower pace. That year Kocis released just two titles, including one that summed up his ever-growing controversial place in the gay porn world, Bareback Twink Orgy.
    By this time Kocis had also found a new filming location, a local beauty salon loaned to him by the owner that he used after the salon closed for the day.
    Bareback Twink Orgy was originally released as Bareback Beach Boyz and appears to also have been taped at a shoreline cottage or resort, and includes external beach shots with the actors enjoying the sun and surf. It was edited at a later time to remove one scene that included a light, sadomasochistic bondage three-way scene featuring actor “Aaron Phelps” ball-gagged and chained to two posts on a patio. The bondage scene was inexplicably pulled from a new version of the tape renamed Bareback Twink Orgy.
    In his video notes Kocis posted online at Pornteam.com about Bareback Twink Orgy, he reported that one of the actors, credited as Armon, “just turned eighteen the week before this trip and we promised to throw a birthday party for him, though he didn’t quite realize the type of party it would turn into.” Kocis notes the orgy scene that follows took more than two hours to film and features two camera angles (though it is unclear if Kocis ever employed anyone other than Robert Wagner to assist in taping scenes). (8)
    Kocis’ disclosure that Armon had just turned eighteen, if accurate, indicates he would have recruited the teen to participate in the video prior to the