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Stephen Marshall

UPDATE:

Yes, I know most of you are here looking for his blog. And guess what? I know the address of it. Yep, that's right. I know the link you are looking for. Sadly, I can not give you the link... instead I can only tell you that T.O. Crime is sure to have it, links to that site below.

Stephen Marshall's action are difficult to understand. No one seems to be able to say for certain what caused him to drive from his home in Nova Scotia to Maine and fatally shoot two of the States registered sex offenders.

Police say Stephen Marshall of Nova Scotia, Canada, looked up 34 sex offenders on the state's online registry before showing up at the homes of Joseph Gray, 57, of Milo, and William Elliott, 24, of Corinth, and shooting them with a .45-caliber handgun. Marshall took guns and a truck from his father in Houlton before going to the victims' homes, authorities said. Continue reading


Marshall, who shot and killed himself when confronted by police appears to have left few clues as to why he choose the two sex offenders, or why he targeted sex offenders from Maine at all.



Amazingly, I only learned about this crime while reading T.O. Crime, by Harding. He's our Canadian watchdog, keeping a keen eye out on the crimes of in the great North. Harding has done an excellent job writing this one up, and I hope you take the time to go over and read the information he has provided on his post Hunting Perverts. And for a good read of Canadian news coverage of the story, check out this link.

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Anonymous said…
I, too was stunned to hear it from Harding. Much later in the day,it finally made a blip on the news...but good grief !!!
19/4/06
Anonymous said…
Boy, has this one opened a can of worms! There seems to be a pretty broad and somewhat explosive discussion going on about public access to sex offender registries. I find it remarkable though, that most of what I find in the media is in the Canadian press. I'm shocked that there is not a larger discussion in the U.S.

Is it out there and I'm just missing it? Or, maybe it's not as big an issue as I think?

Perplexed,
Harding
20/4/06
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