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parents and sister attempted to paint a more complete picture of the man known to most only as a gay porn producer with an appetite for younger guys killed in a murder.
    “He was the type of person that did things for people,” his mother Joyce Kocis tearfully testified at a sentencing hearing for his convicted killer. “We heard stories after (he was killed) about the generosity he would do.” (48)
    His father Michael, sputtering his words between deep sobs of grief at the same hearing said, “I broke down and cried” when learning of his son’s death. “He was basically burned beyond recognition…(and) I couldn’t do a damn thing about it.” (49)
    Michael Kocis described his son as a companion on hunting trips and someone who had saved his life during an earlier heart attack. “He would drop everything to help me out.” (50)
    His mother reminded those following the case, “He was a very loving and giving person. He wasn’t like the media portrayed him, as a gay pornography producer. That was not Bryan.” (51)
    One of his two sisters, Melody Bartusek, said, “It never mattered to us if Bryan was gay or not because that was his own personal life and not ours. He never flaunted (being gay), and what he did in private was up to him. All that mattered was how well he treated us (his family), and he was an amazing son, brother and uncle. He always put us before himself, and he would do anything for us.”  (52)
    Bartusek said her brother was “a good, honest person in a bad, dishonest business.” (53) She added, “He was the most thoughtful person I ever met.” (54)
    Kocis’ parents said their son had promised he would end his adult porn business in 2008 and focus instead on his dream of a restaurant. “When he made a promise to his mother, he always kept it,” Michael Kocis said. (55)
    Unfortunately, it as a promise he would not live to fulfill.

CHAPTER 3
     
    The Rise and Fall of the Cobra Empire

     
“Although Cobra Videos are categorized as amateur, you’re not gonna find anything amateurish about these hot young guys auditioning for a talented, up and coming production company.”
    —Radvideo.com review of Cobra Video

     
    During the years 2001 and 2002, major events were happening in the life of Bryan Kocis that would foretell how he would live the rest of his life. Amidst a bankruptcy filing and the humiliation of his arrest on child sexual abuse allegations, Kocis had pressed “play” on his dreams of creating a gay porn company specializing in twink videos.
    For those unfamiliar with the vernacular of the gay porn world, “twink” describes clean-cut, thin, smooth young men, usually between eighteen and twenty-four years old. In earlier gay decades, they would have been described as “chicken.” Whatever you call them, “twinks” are popular content for gay porn in the youth-obsessed American culture. Bryan Kocis was fond of twinks too, and he intended to use that interest in launching porn venture, Cobra Video.
    The company got underway in earnest in 2001, with the video release of Casting Couch I, Austin’s Beach Buddies, Outdoor Boyz, Ethan’s College Buddies, and Campus Boyz I and II. (1)
    In his earliest releases, producer/director Kocis is credited as “Bryan Phillips,” a nom de plume he later dropped for his real name.
    The scenario for Casting Couch I runs eerily familiar to the earlier allegations brought by a fifteen-year-old boy in a criminal investigation of Kocis and showcased the gay porn genre he was perfecting. Casting Couch I consists of nine scenes, seven of which feature young men seated on a futon sofa in Kocis’ home, answering introductory questions about themselves, their sexuality and their sexual interests. As Kocis himself described it on the Cobra video website and in other promotional materials, “We do some close shots and, of course, the ‘Mystery Hand’ has to give him a lil (sic.) grope.” Kocis himself never appears on camera, though