Maine yanks online registry from Web after pair of degenerates gunned down
Two registered sex offenders in Maine were shot to death in their own homes this morning, prompting the state to take down its online registry of offenders from the Internet.
The removal of the Maine Sex Offender Registry website is being called a precautionary measure, as officials are not sure if it was used by the assailant in the fatal shootings. It contains the photos, names and addresses of more than 2,200 registered sex offenders in the Pine Tree State.
Authorities identify the victims as Joseph L. Gray, 57, of Milo, and William Elliott, 24, of Corinth. Both were listed in the registry.
Police are now searching for a 19-year-old Canadian man, whose last address was not far from the American border in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
Stephen A. Marshall, who has family in Houlton, Maine, is being called "a person of interest."
A small white pickup truck possibly connected in the shootings was located in Bangor, but there was no sign of Marshall, who is described as white, 5-foot-10-inches tall, weighing 130 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes.
posted by RED HAMMER! at 8:50 AM
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So now that the man has been almost 100% positively IDed as the suspect, its interesting to note something I just realized when reading the story:
William Elliott's crime was sex with a girl under legal age, but apparently between 14-17. (IANAL, particularly an American one, but the wire story says Gray's crime was sexually assaulting a girl under 14, while Elliott's was "sexual abuse of a teenage girl").
The thing that catches my eye is that Elliott's crime may have been consensual sex with a girl too young to give consent. He was apparently killed for this crime, and if those are the circumstances then he was killed by a Nova Scotian who's own country wouldn't consider such an act a crime! It is 100% legal in Canada for a man not in an authority position to have consentual vaginal intercourse with 14 year old girls, and therefore Marshall may have killed a man for a "crime" that any of his neighbours may have been doing totally legally right under his nose.
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