Posted on 09/06/2005 7:50:10 AM PDT by SmithL
BELLINGHAM, Wash. - 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 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.
As much as emotion can make one want to excuse this man's actions, we can not.
You are the only one, so far, that has any common sense.
He must be prosecuted. To allow this is to allow a continuance of the lawlessness that went on in New Orleans.
The law is the law, and no man has a right to murder another.
Note: Murder is different than kill.
THe people whining about the "Poor perverted slime" need to WAKE UP!
I suppose the guy that got beaten to deat hin the Superdome because he was caught raping a NINE YEAR OLD, I suppose he got way more than he deserved.
I would have joined in on the beating AND GLADLY!
You had asked if the guy who committed premeditated murder of two people was a good guy or a bad guy.
The answer to that is relative to whether one agrees with what he did, or not. Some here feel that what he did was justified, while some do not.
Remember Wenatchee?
(I met Pastor Roberson at a Republican event some time after he was freed.)
He's a good Samaritan...
prtected by the 'Good Samaritan Law'.
:o)
But he might still be a fanatical ACLU-type person who was willing to sacrifice a couple of hapless sex offenders (whom I feel zero sympathy for, btw) to his cause... In other words, just to advance his real agenda: which is to get the ball rolling on the repeal of Megan's Law.
Sorry, everyone, I just think there's something real fishy about this sudden confession. Doesn't make sense to me. WHY would you turn yourself in to be prosecuted just days after you apparently felt so strongly about the rightness of your cause that you were willing to murder someone over it? Sudden guilty conscience? Seems unlikely. Maybe this guy wants and needs the additional publicity. So that the rest of his story would be known. He WANTS us to know how he got the names off the internet (something we would never know unless he confessed), thanks to Megan's Law, etc. </Sherlock LibWhacker>
Even premeditation doesn't necessarily make a killing a murder.
This kind of scum should ALWAYS get either death or life without parole on the first offense.
-ccm
Come-on comparing the execution of child rapists to the others you list is like saying one would be justified to nail someone that called them "Codswallop". Grow-up.
Evil is not relative to anything. It's not a matter of opinion.
If the poster had said the murderer was a good guy, he would have been correct.
Maybe he got tired of always looking over his shoulder. I dunno, but I've read that kind of statement before.
If the poster had said the murderer was a good guy, he would have been INcorrect.
This guy is a nutcase. He should go to jail, and if the state has capital punishment, he should be executed.
He will probably imperil the whole notification system by his action. Not a good outcome.
"A mandatory death penalty for anyone who rapes a child should be the absolute minimum..."
So raping a child is worse than killing the child?
The Samaritian was a person who helped, not murdered.
Gee..ya think ther ACLU will defend his natural
right to seek justice, while under the duress
of their precence in his "space"?...they obviously
intimidated him, and he felt harrassed by them.
He felt insuted and a second class citizen, when
the courts allowed the law breakers to affect the
public arena with their radical and dangerously
oppresive personal beliefs! LOL!
So a murderer can be a good guy, if he murders evil people...still sounds relative to me.
Agreed.
But it does in this case.
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