flyingtiger1013 Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0905/257815.html BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) - A man turned himself in to authorities in the killing of two convicted child rapists, saying he picked the victims from a sheriff's Web site, police said. Michael Anthony Mullen, 36, called 911 on Monday to claim responsibility for the killings, and officers who talked to him said he gave information that only the killer would know, according to a police news release. He was jailed for investigation of two counts of first-degree murder. Hank Eisses, 49, and Victor Vasquez, 68, were found shot to death at their apartment Aug. 27. They were both classified as Level III sex offenders, considered the type most likely to reoffend. Sex offenders in Washington are required to register with local authorities, and the information is provided on the Web. Mullen told authorities he targeted at least one of the two men after checking the county sheriff's Web site July 13, according to the police statement. The bodies of Eisses and Vasquez were found by a roommate, also a sex offender. He said a man wearing a blue jumpsuit and a cap that said FBI (website) on it came to their home, told them he was an FBI agent and said one of them was on a "hit list" on an Internet site, police said. The roommate said he left while the "FBI" visitor was still there and found the bodies when he returned about four hours later. Days after the killings, The Bellingham Herald received an unsigned letter claiming responsibility for the killings. Police notified convicted Level 3 sex offenders in the area as a precaution, but said the letter was vague and could be a hoax. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codeorama Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 Congrats...? :paranoid: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chomerics Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0905/257815.htmlBELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) - A man turned himself in to authorities in the killing of two convicted child rapists, saying he picked the victims from a sheriff's Web site, police said. Michael Anthony Mullen, 36, called 911 on Monday to claim responsibility for the killings, and officers who talked to him said he gave information that only the killer would know, according to a police news release. He was jailed for investigation of two counts of first-degree murder. Hank Eisses, 49, and Victor Vasquez, 68, were found shot to death at their apartment Aug. 27. They were both classified as Level III sex offenders, considered the type most likely to reoffend. Sex offenders in Washington are required to register with local authorities, and the information is provided on the Web. Mullen told authorities he targeted at least one of the two men after checking the county sheriff's Web site July 13, according to the police statement. The bodies of Eisses and Vasquez were found by a roommate, also a sex offender. He said a man wearing a blue jumpsuit and a cap that said FBI (website) on it came to their home, told them he was an FBI agent and said one of them was on a "hit list" on an Internet site, police said. The roommate said he left while the "FBI" visitor was still there and found the bodies when he returned about four hours later. Days after the killings, The Bellingham Herald received an unsigned letter claiming responsibility for the killings. Police notified convicted Level 3 sex offenders in the area as a precaution, but said the letter was vague and could be a hoax. This is not good for the advocation of posting their pictures and address' on the internet, it only hurts the effort. :doh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueTalon Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 It's hard to feel too sorry for them. If I had kids that were molested, that could very well have been me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ntotoro Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 This is not good for the advocation of posting their pictures and address' on the internet, it only hurts the effort. :doh: Good luck getting someone to sympathize... If I were a Father and found that someone did this to my own kids and the guy was on the streets again (I know that's not the case here), I'd probably do the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codeorama Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 If it happened to my child, I'd take pleasure in butchering them up. I'm sure most parents would feel the same way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 Well, if I can manage to stem the tide of "Well, if this had been true, . . " The two murder victims, here weren't (as near as anybody can tell) doing anything wrong. There aren't any dates mentioned, but it seems likely to me that they hadn't done anything wrong for about 20 years or so. (At least, I hope they'd done at least 20 years.) (To draw a really stretch-out comparason, their past activities were about as relevant to their current activities as W's DUI is to his.) Yes, when these guys were in their 20s, they did something really, really horrible. They were caught, convicted, and served their time. When they were realeased, they registered with law enforcement. They told the cops where to find them. No doubt the cops had current pictures of them on file. When someone who claimed to be a cop showed up at their door, they invited him in. (No "do you have a warrant?" nonsense.) Yep, sounds like they needed to be killed. Because of "maybes" and "what if"s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codeorama Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 No, I think what we were saying is that they should have been killed a long time ago... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyDave Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 He just saw that Washington State was taking too long to pass the death penalty for child rapists and just bypassed the red tape and obstruction sympathetic defenders of pedophiles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Monk Fan Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 Posting the names and addresses of sex offenders has always bothered me. If they've served their time, then they should be free of further taint. If they can't be trusted once released, then they shouldn't be released. If the nature of the crime is such that you can never trust them on their own, then they should be sentenced to a lifetime of incarceration. If the sentece is 20 years and they serve it, they shouldn't be stigmatised after they've served their term. We're trying to have it both ways, which is nuts, and these are the results you get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destino Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 Chomerics is right. This will provide sex offenders with reasons to combat legally the law requiring them to register. This alone won't allow them to win this fight but if it keeps up they will. I won't cheer on a murderer just because I don't like his chosen victim, that is far too slippery a slope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codeorama Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 Posting the names and addresses of sex offenders has always bothered me. If they've served their time, then they should be free of further taint. If they can't be trusted once released, then they shouldn't be released. If the nature of the crime is such that you can never trust them on their own, then they should be sentenced to a lifetime of incarceration. If the sentece is 20 years and they serve it, they shouldn't be stigmatised after they've served their term. We're trying to have it both ways, which is nuts, and these are the results you get. Excellent points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 No, I think what we were saying is that they should have been killed a long time ago... He just saw that Washington State was taking too long to pass the death penalty for child rapists and just bypassed the red tape and obstruction sympathetic defenders of pedophiles. Then there is a simple, obvious, and legal way to solve that problem. Change the law. Pass a death penalty. (I'll vote for it.) Premeditated murder of a guy who's sitting in his own living room isn't the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codeorama Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 Then there is a simple, obvious, and legal way to solve that problem. Change the law. Pass a death penalty. (I'll vote for it.) Premeditated murder of a guy who's sitting in his own living room isn't the way. I agree with you, unless it's my child. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Jones Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 You just can't take the law into your own hands. It is one thing for the father of the victim to kill the suspect knowing the full details of the crime and quite another for some citizen to pick two people from off of a sheriff's website and kill them. What if the citizen got it wrong and killed the wrong people? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halter91 Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 Sadly enough, he did society a favor. Right or Wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsD Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 While I hold little sympathy for his victims I think this man should be punished to the full extent of the law. Vigilantism cannot be tolerated. To say that this man commited a just act is saying that anyone can act as judge, jury, and executioner for a crime he feels warrants death. To those who support this man's crime I ask, do you feel ok with a single man deciding your guilt and bestowing on you his form of punishment for a crime he feels warrants such action? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Mexico Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 Congrats...? :paranoid: :laugh: :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phat Hog Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 2 out of 3 aint bad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryman of the North Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 were they living a halfway house? if not then Kudos to the excutioner! and I agree 2 out of 3 aint bad. Level 3, people is what they catagorize people who are at risk to reoffend. These subhumans prolly have been molesting and just havent been caught. this way they cant ruin anymore lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 Should have been executed already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Jones Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 were they living a halfway house? if not then Kudos to the excutioner! and I agree 2 out of 3 aint bad. Level 3, people is what they catagorize people who are at risk to reoffend. These subhumans prolly have been molesting and just havent been caught. this way they cant ruin anymore lives. The problem is not the act of killing these two individual dirt bags. They sound like they should have been on death row. That is not the point. Regular citizens cannot simply take the law into their own hands. Let's look at all the people cheering in this thread. What if some citizen decides to shoot some dirt bag (that deserves it) in your area and that citizen mistakenly kills you in an act of mistaken identity. The citizen was sure you were the dirt bag that raped and killed 5 children. Ahhh well, he just made a mistake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thiebear Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 Im pro life all the way around with 2 little girls.. The problem is they dont put Known Habitual Sex Offenders in prison forever. They let them out and they do it again..... That was this lunatics reasoning... I still have my 2 girls so i can call him that... If I lost one, who knows...... thats why they don't let the victims decide the fate. I in no way agree with this and it may mess up the internet site i check all the time... but i can't say i don't see "it"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChocolateCitySkin Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 An eye for an eye... What are we in biblical times? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 were they living a halfway house? if not then Kudos to the excutioner! and I agree 2 out of 3 aint bad. Level 3, people is what they catagorize people who are at risk to reoffend. These subhumans prolly have been molesting and just havent been caught. this way they cant ruin anymore lives. I agree. I think we should immediatly start a program of havine self-appointed executioners commit premeditated murder of people who are at risk to break a law. Starting with every single person in this thread who thinks that killing two people who were sitting in their own living room, because they might have done something, or because they might do so in the future. After all, anybody who thinks that murder based on opinion is OK, probably needs it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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