Monday, April 17, 2006

It's Wacky, Wild, Stuff.

(CP) - A quiet Cape Breton dishwasher suspected of killing two Maine sex offenders had visited an online registry that listed their names and addresses, a U.S. official said Monday.
Stephen McCausland, a spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, said the two victims were among 34 names that Stephen Marshall, 20, of North Sydney, N.S., had looked up on the state website.
"The events of the weekend will obviously be reviewed, but there are no plans to change the site at this point," McCausland said.
Investigators searching for a link between Marshall and the murdered Americans discovered that the young Canadian had entered his name on the sex offender registry in order to get more information, including the street addresses of the victims.

Despite the possible break in the case, police still have more questions than answers about what might connect Marshall to the murdered men.
Marshall's father, Ralph Marshall, told reporters Monday that his son didn't appear troubled and never said he had been sexually abused.
"Right now, everything seems to be about speculation," he said.

Most of the answers may have died with Marshall, who shot himself in the head when cornered by police on a bus outside Boston on Sunday. A laptop computer was found with his body.
The bodies of the victims in the puzzling double-murder-suicide were found in their homes about 40 kilometres apart in towns in Maine.
Marshall, of North Sydney, N.S., was named as "a person of interest" in the deaths of Joseph Gray, 57, of Milo, Me., and William Elliott, 24, of Corinth, Me.
The names and addresses of the victims were on the online registry until state authorities suspended access to the site after the killings.
Gray's name was posted on the state registry because he had moved to Maine after he was convicted in Massachusetts of sexually assaulting a child under 14. Elliott's conviction was for having sex with a girl under the legal age.
Marshall was last seen in Cape Breton on Thursday.
Police in Maine said a witness saw him leave the second shooting scene in Corinth in a white pickup Sunday morning, about five hours after the first shooting in Milo was reported.
The truck, which belonged to Marshall's father, was later found abandoned near an arena in Bangor, Me.
After a 12-hour manhunt that stretched through three states, police pulled over a bus from Bangor as it approached Boston at 7:25 p.m. EDT.
As officers climbed aboard, Marshall was 13 rows behind the driver in a window seat. He pulled out a .45-calibre handgun and shot himself in the head, said David Procopio, spokesman for the Suffolk County district attorney.

When paramedics arrived, they found a second handgun in Marshall's possession.
Marshall died at 11:24 p.m. at Boston Medical Center.
In North Sydney, no one answered the door Monday at a weathered, two-storey wooden home where the young man lived.
Two doors doors down, George and Eileen Forrest said the house seemed to have an ever- changing parade of young tenants.
"No one bothers you around here - it's a quiet spot," Eileen Forrest said. "But now I'll never go and leave my door open again. Not as long as I live."
Marshall's former employer described him as a good worker who kept to himself.
"He was a friendly kid, he was quiet, not someone you'd think would be twisted up in something like this," said Charlie MacArthur, assistant manager of the Chinese restaurant where Marshall had worked for about a year.
MacArthur said it was out of character for Marshall to miss his shift on Saturday. Then, on Monday, MacArthur recognized Marshall's picture on a morning television newscast.
"It was the same as everybody else - in shock, hard to believe," said MacArthur.
Police in Cape Breton said Marshall had moved out of his mother's home in Little Bras d'Or about a year ago.
Marshall's mother told police her son once lived with his father and it wasn't unusual for Marshall to visit him in Maine.
"From what we can gather, he was down there previously - he lived with his dad for a while years ago," said Const. Max Sehl of Cape Breton Regional Police in North Sydney.
"When the officers went and spoke with his mom, she wasn't startled with the fact that he was there, just startled with . . . what he may have been involved in."
The fact that Cape Breton police believe Marshall had visited his father before contradicts information released by authorities in Maine.
U.S. authorities said Marshall travelled to Houlton, Me., for the first time to meet his father. They also believe he took three firearms from his father - two handguns and a rifle. Police had yet to find the rifle.
Maine's sex offender registry, which went online in December 2003, has the names, pictures and addresses of more than 2,200 people.
Jack King of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in Washington said revealing the addresses of sex offenders can be an invitation to violence.
"There are going to be crazy people out there," King told Associated Press. "And there's going to be vigilantism."
© The Canadian Press, 2006


Aren't we being neighbourly-like. We're even going south to kill the american pedophiles. It's really weird that he kills himself. It would be very interesting if the authorities got the chance to try him in court. Esspecially if it's by jury. Who's going to convict a killer who kills pedophiles? Not me. I'll gladly accept a plea of insanity. You don't even have to explain yourself.
One problem I do have. What's a Canadian doing killing the american pedophiles? We got pedophiles in Canada too. Kill ours first. Let the americans fix their own problem. They got more then enough guns to do it.
I guess your ARE innocent until proven guilty. But why would you kill yourself if you're innocent?

1 comment:

schmunky said...

The Kid had to go to Maine to get his old man's guns before he could go on a killing spree. Plus Canada doesn't publish sex offender's addresses. Silly Bugger, If he just had a bloody Chainsaw he could have walked back across the border.