VIGILANTE MURDERS
LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT INTEREST
DECEMBER 16, 2007
Courts across the
THE PROBLEM WITH VIGILANTE'S
"Get Out Perv" Left At Fire Site
A trailer of carpet cleaning equipment at an Evansville house may have been mistakenly set on fire by someone targeting a suspected sex offender early Friday morning, according to a police report.
Firefighters arrived at 705 Audubon Drive at 2:30 a.m. to find a cargo trailer on fire in the driveway at the home of Randall Eggers, according to fire investigators.
The phrase "GET OUT PERV" was spray painted on the victim's garage.
According to an Evansville Police Department report, the homeowner heard a popping sound from outside and could see a glow from the windows. He went outside to find the cargo trailer on fire and used his pickup truck to push it away from the house before the fire could spread.
Fire Investigator Jesse Storey told police that he could smell gasoline around the trailer. The trailer and its contents were a total loss and valued at about $30,000.
Possible target
The resident told police that Robert "Andy" Gillespie, who was arrested last month on preliminary charges of child solicitation, lives nearby.
Gillespie was arrested after driving to the Indianapolis area allegedly to meet a 14-year-old girl he had met in an online chat room.
But police say Gillespie actually was chatting online and sharing lewd photographs with an undercover Carmel, Ind., police officer who arranged for Gillespie's arrest when he showed up at their agreed upon meeting place.
The recent University of Evansville graduate and a former employee of the WUEV student radio station there also worked several times as a substitute teacher at McGary Middle School and Stockwell Elementary School.
Source:http://www.courierpress.com/news/2008/feb/02/get-outperv-leftat-fire-site/
Neighbors tell us many of them knew Davion Crow was a sex offender. In 2005, he was put on probation after he was convicted of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old student at
Police say Crow was killed by someone using at least two weapons. He was shot several times at the entrance to his house.
The Los Angeles Times reports on a killing in Lake County, Calif., in which prosecutors are investigating the possibility that this very fear may have come true for the first time in the state.
Sorensen, 26, of River Rouge, was found dead Thursday at the end of a yet-to-be-developed subdivision cul-de-sac in Northville Township off Ridge Road just south of Maybury State Park. His severed head was found Saturday in a section of
Jean Pierre Orlewicz, 17, of Plymouth and Alexander James Letkemann, 18, of Westland, were arraigned via video today in Romulus District Court on charges of premeditated murder, felony murder and mutilation of a corpse. The homicide charges carry sentences of up to life. A preliminary exam is set for Nov. 19 at 35th District Court in
"They lured him into a garage where a space had been prepared to kill him," Worth said.
Worthy said the pair stabbed Sorensen in the back multiple times, then sawed off his head. The garage had been prepared with a tarp on the floor and cleaning supplies standing by to clean up the blood. She called the killing "bone-chilling."
It is alleged the pair tried to conceal the identity of the victim by using a blow torch to burn his hands and feet. Gasoline was used to set the body on fire after it was dumped in the empty lot in
BELLINGHAM — Last Friday night, a man claiming to be an FBI agent dropped in on three Level 3 sex offenders living together, supposedly to warn them of an Internet "hit list" targeting sex offenders.
The man was not an FBI agent, but he may have been enforcing a hit list of his own creation.
Two of the roommates were found dead early Saturday of gunshot wounds, and
The killings also highlight a potential problem about
He was rushed to
Police discovered bullets linked to him in the bathroom at a bus station in
PICTURED BELOW ARE THE MURDERED WIFE OF A REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER MELISSA CHANDLER AND THE REMAINS OF HER HOME IN THE INTENTIONALLY SET FIRE THAT TOOK HER LIFE. (PHOTO CREDITS A/P)