Man tracks down and kills two child molesters - right or wrong?

[UberGoober]

Cops: Man Admits Killing Child Molesters
Tuesday, September 06, 2005


BELLINGHAM, Wash. — A man who turned himself in and said he killed two convicted child rapists might have been motivated by a notorious case in Idaho in which two children were abducted in mid-May.

Michael Anthony Mullen (search) called police Monday to turn himself in and later confessed to killing Hank Eisses (search) and Victor Vasquez (search) on Aug. 27, officers said.

"One possible reason was the case in Idaho," police Lt. Craige Ambrose told The Associated Press. Ambrose wouldn't elaborate, saying the case was still under investigation.

Mullen was booked into jail for investigation of murder pending a court appearance.

Police said they believe Mullen's claim that he killed the two registered sex offenders because he knew details only the killer would know. He knew that the victims were each shot once in the head, and he knew the caliber of the weapon.

"Mullen also said that he had planned the murders for some time and that on July 13, 2005, he had accessed the Whatcom County Sheriff's sex offender Web site, and from that selected at least one of the two victims," according to a police department news release.

As is typical in Washington, the sheriff's Web site lists the residences of sex offenders who are required to register with local authorities.

Mullen, 36, has a criminal record but no history of violence, Ambrose said.

In the Idaho case, Joseph Edward Duncan (search) is accused of fatally beating three people with a hammer in a home outside Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, in order to abduct two children for sex.

He was arrested July 2 at a restaurant with one of the children, 8-year-old Shasta Groene. Remains of her 9-year-old brother, Dylan, were found in a Montana forest two days later.

According to police, Mullen said he mailed a letter about the Bellingham killings to several news outlets last week. The Bellingham Herald, the daily newspaper in this college and mill town of about 71,000, reported Thursday that the letter threatened other sexual predators.

"He said there are more letters forthcoming," Ambrose said of Mullen's confession.

Eisses, 49, and Vasquez, 68, were found shot to death at their apartment Aug. 27. They were both classified as Level 3 sex offenders, the type considered most likely to re-offend.

Their bodies were found by a roommate, also a sex offender, who said a man wearing a blue jumpsuit and a cap that said "FBI" came to their apartment, told them he was an FBI agent and said he wanted to discuss their status as sex offenders.

The supposed federal agent told them that one of them was on a "hit list," police said.

The roommate said he left while the FBI impostor was still there and he found the bodies when he returned about four hours later.

Vasquez was convicted in 1991 of molesting several relatives, according to court documents. He was released from prison about two years and remained under Department of Corrections supervision.

Eisses was sentenced to 5½ years in prison in 1997 for raping a 13-year-old boy. He was released from supervision about two years ago, said Kit Bail, Corrections Department field supervisor for Whatcom County

[Reckless01]

wow, talk about mixed emotions!! Its sad that a man murdered 2 men in cold blood....but at the same time these men enjoyed the act of engaging in sex with children! I think in this case as we were taught "Kill em all and let God sort them out" It sucks but if you look into your lil daughters trusting eyes and know that an animal could do that to her......well you'll understand!

[UberGoober]

I have to admit I have mixed feeling about this too. A part of me says, "Good." and another part says, "Two wrongs don't make a right."

It's almost like this guy is a serial killer in the making. Just because he is picking on an undesirable element doesn't mean its right, you know? A lot of serial killers kill prostitutes, they're easy targets because the are undesirable too...

[jimmyzee]

Originally Posted by Reckless01

It sucks but if you look into your lil daughters trusting eyes and know that an animal could do that to her......well you'll understand!

justice served.


the lives that this type of creature, the molester destroys deserves nothing less than death. justice has been served.

[Mantis]

I'm not gonna say it was right by any means, but honestly I could care less about any molester. It certainly doesn't make me sad that these people are dead

[badgixxer]

i'd kill with extreme prejudice anyone that molests one of my kids.....

[Rocket67]

The real crime here is that the dude turned himself in.

[abamains]

Originally Posted by Reckless01

if you look into your lil daughters trusting eyes and know that an animal could do that to her......well you'll understand!

I have a five year old daughter and I know exactly what you are talking about! Unfortunately we have a sex offender that lives in our neighborhood that has a criminal history of rape and child molesting. We have younger adults like myself with children ranging from infants to teenagers. If I catch that SOB on my street talking to or touching children or my child they will be fishing is dead bloated ass out of one of the retention ponds in the neighborhood!

I don't want to come off violent but when you do something like that to innocent child you have to pay the piper!

[alaska cajun]

Why stop at 2,they should let him excape.

[ASCI_Blue]

doesn't give enough info about how they died. being 'shot to death' isn't very descriptive. were there multiple wounds or just one or two shots so it was clean and quick.

[WISPER]

I feel no pity what so ever. Level 3 sex offenders should all be shot, I'd pull the trigger myself, shit, I'd pay for the bullets.
Why is it that you can rape a 13 year old and get 5.5 years, but you get caught with pot 3 times and can get 25. Hmmmm maybe the system's just a little itsy bitsy screeeewed up.
I vote a manditory sentence of no less then life for convicted rapists of any kind.

EDIT: And what does it matter how they died?? Instantly as a bullet entered the brain pan and multched there brain, OR screaming their lungs out, biting their tongues off crushing their own teeth.......It doesn't matter to me, as long as their not out on the streets looking for their next little kid to rape!!

[alaska cajun]

Originally Posted by WISPER

I vote a manditory sentence of no less then life for convicted rapists of any kind.

You can't do that,,,,,,,they have feelings and they can be helped.We can teach them how to love a child.......... instead of destroying there lifes.


A life sentence is to good for them.I say skin them alive and then kill them.

[SeeBeRrrr]

justice served

+1

[WISPER]

Originally Posted by alaska cajun

A life sentence is to good for them.I say skin them alive and then kill them.

Skinnings meeessssy. Head shots are "dead" easy, and a small caliber's EASY clean up.

[alaska cajun]

Originally Posted by WISPER

Skinnings meeessssy. Head shots are "dead" easy, and a small caliber's EASY clean up.

But I want them to feel pain before they die.