Kat’s Blog: Vigilantism Against Registrants: What More Proof Do They Need?

I hate writing blog pieces like this, they’re depressing, scary and hit too close to home.  But pieces like this are important for all of us to read. Pieces like this serve as “slap in the face, wake you up” reminders of what we’re all fighting for and why we need to seriously amp up the fight.

Looking back at statistics, vigilante crimes against registrants have been occurring for over a decade if not longer.  Murdered registrants don’t receive a lot of press and their deaths aren’t counted among those considered “hate crimes” even though anyone with a brain cell can see that that’s what they are. Murdered registrants deaths are “just homicides”, some solved, some not, probably many that we never even know about.

What I find appalling is the fact that no one is willing to openly “connect the dots” when it comes to these crimes. Public registry….Public names & addresses….Murdered registrants.  The dots are all there, what more proof is needed?  The registry fosters vigilantism and registrants end up dead.

Need more proof, let’s take a brief, horrific walk down memory lane.

2004 New Hampshire– Lawrence Trent, 57, is sentenced to 10-30 years after pleading guilty to attempted murder of two registrants whose names and addresses he found on the state’s public registry. He later told police he felt “morally justified in committing the crime.”

2005 Bellingham, WA. – Hank Eisses, 49 and Victor Vasquez, 68, residents residing in the same home are gunned down by Michael A. Mullen.  Mullen pretends to be an FBI agent investigating threats made against “sex offenders” in order to gain access to their home. Later, Mullen admits to police that he found the victims information on the online public registry and just wanted to kill them.

2006 Maine– Stephan A. Marshall, a Canadian citizen used the online public registry information to locate and murder Wm. Elliott, 24 and Joseph Gray 57. Records indicate Marshall had browsed the online registry early the day of the murders, first killing Gray and later Elliott.  Investigators also revealed that Marshall had obtained the names and addresses of at least 34 other registrants.

2011 Hazelwood, Missouri- John J. Huffmaster is charged with violently assaulting his 74 yr. old neighbor who was a registrant.  Huffmaster reported he was “doing God’s work”. The victim sustained multiple skull and facial fractures.

2012 Washington- Patrick Drum was sentenced to life in prison for shooting and killing Gary Lee Blanton, 28 and Jerry Wayne Ray 57. Drum admits to police that he was targeting “sex offenders” and had plans to continue to kill others until he was caught.

2013 South Carolina- Husband and wife duo Jeremy and Christine Moody murder registrant Charles “Butch” Parker, 59 and Gretchen Parker 51. The murderers were identified from the Parker’s home surveillance video and Jeremy Moody is recorded telling Charles, “I’m not here to rob you, I’m here to kill you because you’re a child molester.”  Moody admitted to targeting other registrants and said he would have killed another on his “hit list” a few days later had he not been arrested.

2013 Temecula, California- David Ray Mills 36, his 16 yr. old daughter and Andre E. Dickerson 20, are charged in a vicious attack on Esteban Cruz, 21. Cruz had been accused of raping the 16 yr. old.  He was lured to a park where he was beaten with a baseball bat by Dickerson while the others watched.  The victim sustained skull fractures, broken bones, missing teeth and a lung injury.

2015 Nebraska- Registrant Phillip McDaniel was attacked at work by co-worker Jason Bates who assaulted him with a brass hammer while calling him “Chimo” (slang for child molester.) Bates had become enraged after discovering that McDaniel was a registrant.  McDaniel suffered injuries of his nose, clavicle and left shoulder but was denied workman’s comp, the Nebraska Court of Appeals upholding the denial, finding that the attack was due to “personal reasons” even though the only relationship between the two was as co-workers.

2016 Anchorage, Alaska- Jason Vukovich, 41 is arrested for assaulting three different registrants with a hammer. He had found their names on the public registry.  He showed one of the victims a notebook with a list of additional potential victims. During one of the attacks, Vukovich told a victim “I am an avenging angel, I’m going to mete out justice for the people you hurt.”

2017 Macon County Illinois- Police apprehend Samuel Henson, 19 who is a suspect in the 2015 beating death of a 53 yr. old registrant. He acknowledged knowing the victim was a registrant and is accused of the assault along with two other teenagers.

2019 Pottawatomie County Oklahoma- Harry L. Venosdel Jr, 60, was slain outside of his home.  Police say he was shot twice and likely died in agony.  Mr. Venosdel lived in an area that was not easily accessible and complicated to find for those not knowing the area.  According to police investigators, the shooter had to “know what they were searching for.”

2019 Nevada- Former NJ priest & schoolteacher John Capparelli, 70 was gunned down. His name was on a list of Catholic priests in NJ who had been “credibly accused of sexually abusing children”. The list is released by New Jersey’s 5 dioceses and lists incidents of abuse of minors as far back as 1940.

These are but a few of the assaults and murders that have taken place over the last decade or so, this is only the tip of the iceberg. How many registrants don’t report assaults or are murdered and their deaths are chalked up to “just another homicide” rather than a vigilante “hate crime”?

Clearly there is vigilantism at hand.  Murderers are admitting securing names and addresses from the public “sex offender” registries online. They admit to their sole purpose of assaulting or killing registrants, in the name of vengeance, God, justice or whatever other lunacy they can conceive of.

While most lawmakers probably wouldn’t publicly support assaults or murders of registrants, few seem willing to openly object to the negative and sometimes fatal consequences of the registry.  Few lawmakers speak up in regards to curtailing registrant requirements or to protecting registrant’s privacy or safety when public registry information puts them at risk of vigilantism.

Registrants are being murdered or assaulted every day, in every state.

Why is it so damn hard for law enforcement, lawmakers and politicians to just admit that the dots connect?

Public Sex Offender Registry……..Leads to…….Vigilantism

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And then there’s the “civil” vigilantism. Banishment from society. Facebook, Airbnb,schools, little league, AYSO, church, parks neighborhoods, jobs, travel, libraries ..yeah that’s right the dots connect.

I wasn’t killed.

I wasn’t hospitalized.

It wasn’t someone who got my information from a web site, but someone I knew I thought was to be trusted.

They developed an “avenging angel” mindset.

Law enforcement released them with a “misdemeanor brandishing” charge… Because “they didn’t see it”.

A fairly large number of others did though.

I do avoid places where this person goes now and tend to sit with my back to a wall.

This list is missing someone from CA that was recently killed in the last 6 or so mos, and the DA prosecuting the murderer has/ignoring the fact that it was done as the murdered person was a 290-.

That the cold blooded murder of Ms. Parker in South Carolina was more or less accepted as collateral damage and did not generate more outrage by the general public is shocking. Maybe it will take some innocent bystander children being murdered? Probably not even.

Let’s not forget that this organization was more or less borne from such an attack (I hate to use the word “vigilante” as a true “vigilante” dispenses (actual) justice in the absence of a formal justice structure, like in the old West, which could not be further from the truth in these cases where the victims had been dealt with by the system).

https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/article39150873.html

Frank L. wrote a book about this, which was read by one Central Coast attorney, and the rest is history….

and lets dont forget 4 charged in killing of Redondo Beach sex offender

https://www.dailybreeze.com/2018/01/15/4-charged-in-killing-of-redondo-beach-sex-offender-no-strangers-to-court/

“Prosecutors said the men allegedly killed John Haig Marshall, 61, on Nov. 28 after allegedly breaking into his apartment while he was in the shower, strangling and attacking him with pliers and bolt cutters.”

They went and got bolt cutters for gods’ sake..WTF????

I don’t think Registry Nazis care at all if Registered People or their families are murdered. They don’t care. They are terrible people. They talk about “for the children” and all that but obviously those are just lies.

They ought to at least care about people who are not Registered who are being murdered because of the Registries. Or maybe they don’t. The Registries get them off. The Registries exist for their jollies. They likely don’t care about any people being murdered. That’s what I expect.

Quite simply put the vigilante-ism is a result of the existence of the registry itself and the justification and reason for the registry in simple terms is is because politicians have been told that there is a high re-offense rate. We have proven that the re-offense rate for people on the registry is less than 1% in any given year, and that the registry increases in size by about 10% per year. In Nebraska since its inception in 1996 through 2012 the registry had increased in size 776% and the average re-offense rate was around 6/10 of one percent the second part of the equation is who really commits new sex crime and what percentage of those are committed by people on the registry. For that I will go into a tirade.

Ever wonder what the rate of new sex crimes for professions is how about the sexual offense rate for police officers? Referring to this documentation:
http://www.ucimc.org/content/national-police-misconduct-statistics-released

Working with those numbers, according to the referenced link:
0.08% (1 in 116) officers are cited for misconduct
13% of those are sex offenses/ sex related.
800,000 estimated police officers in the US (that’s one per RSO!)
Now let’s crunch some numbers…
that makes ~ 6,873 instances of officer misconduct in a 6 month period of which 13% are sex related offenses giving us a grand total of….893 sex offenses committed by police officers during a six month period from April to Sept 2009 or nearly 18 per state! Estimating for the year that would be 1786 sex related offenses for police officers.

That would make about 3% of all new sex offenses are committed by police (1786/63000).
Police officers make up 0.3% of the population in the US (800,000/311,745,000).
Police commit one sex offense per 1,000 officers according to the numbers.
strangers commit less than 1% of all sex offenses. Police officers commit ~3%!
I say forget stranger danger, we have a new worry … blue danger or pervs in a uniforms.

We’re still trying to crunch realistic numbers for sex offenses by profession. Now, according to the AP, only 500 teachers were arrested as sex offenders out of 3.5 million teachers, which makes 0.014% of teachers committed sex offenses or 0.7% of all sex offenses were committed by teachers. The latest search was for clergy sex offenders since such a big deal is made about that. The only number we have found that’s recent (2009) is 215 victims of sex offenses by clergy.

Oh yes WE must not forget to add in the re-offense rate for people on the registry for new sex crimes The June 2002: Department of Justice: Recidivism of Prisoners Released in 1994 (DOJ-2002) crime from 1994-1997. (DOJ-2002 page 5) we do know this, that during that time period (1994-1997): Of the released sex offenders 3.5% (339) Were reconvicted for a sex crime over a Three year period So for one year average there was 113 RECONVICTED for a sex offense. (DOJ-2003[p2]). Now for the (reality) plug-in (113/63000) We get 0.17% Or basically 2/10 of 1%. According to the Department of Justice, most child sexual abuse victims are molested by family members (34%) or close acquaintances (59%) (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2000).

Here’s the breakdown thus far, in the Percentage of new sex crimes
Close acquaintances (59%)
Family members (34%)
Police officers 3.0%
Teachers 00.7%
Clergy 00.3%
strangers 1% those who have not been convicted of a sex crime (note: this could include somebody that was met at a party or a street dance and does not necessarily mean an adult)
People on the registry/previously convicted 00.17%.

So what this proves is that based on the re-offense rates there is no rational, reasonable or logical reason for the registry to exist. This is especially true when you take into account that it is now become a rationalized hit list for the sociopath element of our society that are vigilantes.

Because connecting the dots “here” equals political, social and financial suicide. Any lawmaker and politician who dares sees the wrong of the registry and even whispers about change will find themselves out of a job, out of friends and out of their oh so secure future…….That’s why, sad as it is. The public needs to see and understand the truth long before the lawmakers and the politicians in order for anything to change, and that’s on us. We can connect the dots all we want, but nothing will happen until the people who keep those lawmakers and politicians well fed and well coined are ready to listen, and at least begin to accept the truth. Laws are not made by those at the top, they’re made by the people who demand them…….the voters who only know what those at the top (and every avenue of the media) have told them. It’s past time for us to tell them, all of them the real truth. The people will never know (or care) about how the registry does so much more harm than it could ever do any good unless WE tell them, show them, educate them. So…….when are we going to start?????

I don’t understand why the author put that it is vigilantism… There is no crime and they are not enforcing any law.
They are instead harassing, are violent and attacking people, mostly on the registry. Do not use the term vigilante on these punks. You are giving them a title that people use to visualize heroes and those who are helping. Remember that vigilantes have the concept of being a hero. You are giving them that title and expect them to stop?
Poorly written..

Mathew-
The term “vigilantism” was used as is interpreted “broadly” in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. It indicates “self-appointed doers of justice/ or the suggestion of the enforcement of laws without regard to due process or general rule of law”.
I think in today’s world climate the term vigilante carries a more negative connotation, certainly not that of a hero.
I do appreciate your perspective though.
Kat

I think what you wrote was very good but also that “vigilante” is too nice. Can’t say I thought about an alternative much but I might just use “vigilante criminal” until/unless I thought of something better.

I wonder, has anyone brought a challenge based upon this information, to sue the federal or state government for violating your constitutional right to life?

Oh I can hear the government’s defense already. That only applies if your life is taken, and so when that happens, you can come back and sue us.