Suspected killer got lowdown on men using online sex offender registry [View All]

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Suspected killer got lowdown on men using online sex offender registry
Last Updated Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:07:17 EDT


A Nova Scotia man suspected of killing two registered sex offenders in Maine before taking his own life had looked up details about the men on the state's online sex offender registry, police say.

Stephen Marshall, who shot himself in the head with a .45-calibre handgun when police stopped the bus he was riding, had logged on to 34 individual names on the registry, police said.

The registry provides addresses and conviction data of offenders.

"We know that Marshall logged on and got specific information on <34> individuals, two of which were the victims," Steve McCausland, a spokesman for the Maine state police, told CBC News.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2006/04/17/newmaineshooting20060417.html