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    Maine's Parents of Murdered Children chapter will honor William Elliot dead back in 2006

    https://www.newscentermaine.com/arti...r/97-565985239

    William Elliot was targeted by a vigilante killer in 2006

    BANGOR (NEWS CENTER Maine) -- In 2006, William Elliot was sought out and shot because he was a registered sex offender. On Sunday, he will be honored by the Maine chapter of Parents of Murdered Children.

    His mother, Shirley Turner, says he was on this list because he had consensual sex with an underage girlfriend.

    "But he was 19 when he got involved with a young girl and ended up on the Maine sex offender registry." She said.

    Turner says she's surprised that Elliot will be honored because she hasn't gotten much support over the years but is looking forward to talking to other people that have had a child taken away from them. Because losing a loved one to murder, isn't like anything else.

    "After joining the group, I saw the value that it represented for individuals that are going through similar type of loss of life because the way it's perceived by survivors of murder victims is that you know, you didn't lose somebody, that person was taken from you. It was an intentional act and it is a different kind of grief and mourning process." Arthur Jette, memorial organizer, said.

    Although Elliot had a criminal history, organizers still believed he should have been included on the wall.

    "Unless somebody is themselves a killer," Jette said "but situations like William's are kind of, though their violations of law, he paid the price."

    The rededication will be on Sunday at Holy Family Cemetery, Townsend in Augusta.

    The Insane part here was that it was during the first wave of Vigilante justice against RSO when Stephan A Marshall Killed William Elliot.

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    https://www.newstimes.com/news/artic...der-101955.php

    Here is the archive from the Stephen A Marshall Murders in Maine.

    CORINTH, Maine (AP) - The Maine Department of Public Safety has no immediate plans for changes to the state's Web-based sex offender registry despite the killings of two sex offenders whose addresses were apparently obtained online.

    The registry, which gets 200,000 hits a month, represents the most popular portion of the state government's Web site, officials said.

    And it was used by a Canadian man to obtain personal information about the two men who were killed Easter morning in Corinth and Milo, police say.

    The mother of one of the victims, William Elliott, 24, of Corinth, told The Boston Globe that his name was on the registry because of his 2002 conviction for having sex with a girlfriend when he was 19 and she was two weeks shy of her 16th birthday.

    "My son was not a pedophile," said Shirley Turner, who questioned why he had been listed alongside people who committed more grievous crimes. "He'd be alive today," were it not for the registry, Turner said.

    Maine Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said there were no plans to change the Web site. The registry has been posted online since December 2003.

    The gunman, Stephen A. Marshall, a 20-year-old from Nova Scotia's Cape Breton, committed suicide Sunday night in Boston after being confronted aboard a bus by police.

    Investigators were uncertain what relationship, if any, Marshall had with the two victims. But the two men were among 34 names in five towns that Marshall had looked up on the state Web site, McCausland said. Investigators said they discovered that he visited the Web site because he typed in his name to receive extra information online that includes street addresses.

    The Web site was disabled temporarily by police but was restored Monday afternoon.

    All states have sex offender registries designed to let people know of child molesters and other sex offenders in their midst. Almost all of them post the information online.

    But the killings added to a growing unease with such Web sites. Jack King from the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in Washington said making public sex offenders' addresses can be an invitation to violence.

    Harassment, vandalism, assaults and even killings of sex offenders have been reported from coast to coast.

    "There are going to be crazy people out there," King said. "And there's going to be vigilantism."

    After New Jersey passed a public disclosure law on sex offenders in the 1990s, the brother of an offender was nearly beaten to death with a baseball bat when he was mistaken for his brother, King said.

    In New Hampshire, Lawrence Trant went to prison after pleading guilty to the attempted murder of two convicted sex offenders whose names and addresses he found on an Internet registry posted by the state.

    A sex offender Web site in Washington state was cited in the slayings of two convicted child rapists last summer. Michael Anthony Mullen, 35, pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to more than 44 years in prison.

    In Maine, the registered sex offenders who were shot to death were Elliott and Joseph Gray, 57, of Milo.

    Gray's wife, Janice, said that her and her husband's dogs started barking wildly at about 3:30 a.m. Sunday. When she looked out the window, she saw a figure dressed in a black jacket at the front door. A second later, she heard two shots and saw two flashes as bullets were fired through the front window.

    She called her husband's name, but she got no response. "All I know is someone came to my hosue and took my husband from me," she said. "He was a very loving, good man."

    Gray's name was posted on a state Web site because he had moved to Maine after a Massachusetts conviction for sexual assault on a child under 14, McCausland said. Elliott was convicted of having sex with an underage girl, he said.

    When he shot himself, Marshall had with him a laptop computer, along with two handguns, that will be examined by investigators in Maine, said Dave Procopio, spokesman for the Suffolk County, Mass., District Attorney's Office.

    Marshall, a 20-year-old restaurant dishwasher from North Sydney, Nova Scotia, had come to Houlton, Maine, to visit his father, authorities said.

    Investigators believe he used his father's pickup during the killings. The father had not realized his son and truck were missing, McCausland said. Marshall also took two handguns and a rifle from his father, the spokesman said.

    Police tracked Marshall to Boston after finding his pickup abandoned along with the rifle in Bangor and then discovering bullets hidden in the tank of a toilet in a bus stop restroom were of the same caliber as one of his father's handguns.

    Investigators believe a .45-caliber handgun Marshall turned on himself was the same one used in the Maine killings, McCausland said. The rifle, along with a .22-caliber handgun, were not fired, he said.

    Marshall's father, Ralph Marshall, told reporters that his son didn't appear troubled and never said he had been sexually abused. He was confident investigators would get to the bottom of the case.

    "Right now, everything seems to be about speculation," he said.

    Maine's registry has the names of more than 2,200 sex offenders. It contains such information as the offender's name, address, date of birth, identifying characteristics and place of employment, as well as a photograph. Depending on the crime, the offender is required to register either for 10 years or for life.

    In Washington state, the Whatcom County Sheriff's Office posts a warning on its registry under the heading "Vigilantism - Zero Tolerance," urging people not to use the information to harass offenders.

    In Maine, Gray and Elliott lived in towns about 25 miles apart. Neither man appeared to have caused a stir recently.

    Gray and his wife moved a couple of years ago from Massachusetts to Milo, a town of about 2,400, said Kenny Hudak, a local police sergeant. Hudak said Gray had been reclusive.

    In Corinth, residents were alerted when Elliott moved into a vinyl-sided trailer in the woods. The property was covered with trash, tires and at least a dozen junked vehicles.

    "I think more people were concerned about the mess than him being a sex offender," said Mary Hadley, who lives across the road.

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